ENG 323 SEX, POLITICS, RELIGION POETRY
SEX, POLITICS, AND RELIGION IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE POETRY
Sex, politics, and religion are the three topics that should be avoided at dinner parties, but they are central to the poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In this course, students will discover the formal innovations of this poetry, its mind- and world-bending vocabulary and figures of speech, and its engagement with current events, both through close reading and discussion and by engaging creatively with the intellectual practices of creating commonplace books and cabinets of curiosity. Authors may include Wyatt, Askew, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sidney, Donne, Herbert, Lanyer, Philips, Marvell, Cavendish, and Milton.
Prerequisite
Open to all juniors and seniors, and to sophomores who have taken
ENG 250.
Enrollment Limit
Enrollment limited to 18 students.
Attributes
MOIB, MOIE, W