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This course Eng 411 , is designed to focus on Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Poetry, especially The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser, selected poems by John Donne and Andrew Marvell, Paradise Lost by John Milton.
Students will have some ideas about Elizabethan and Seventeenth century poetry by John Donne, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and the sense of life through different dimensions of cross-cultural reading, differences between individual responses and politically socio-economic circumstances. At the end of this course, students will be able to identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of Elizabethan and Seventeenth century poetry by John Donne, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, discover the multiplicity of layered meanings by a close textual analysis of poetic works of the poets associated with Renaissance, and understand the complex relationship between literary texts’ stylistic features and poets’ socio-political outlooks on cultural issues within the time frames of Renaissance in the British poetic tradition.
Students will have some ideas about Elizabethan and Seventeenth century poetry by John Donne, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, and the sense of life through different dimensions of cross-cultural reading, differences between individual responses and politically socio-economic circumstances. At the end of this course, students will be able to identify and describe distinct literary characteristics of Elizabethan and Seventeenth century poetry by John Donne, Andrew Marvell and John Milton, discover the multiplicity of layered meanings by a close textual analysis of poetic works of the poets associated with Renaissance, and understand the complex relationship between literary texts’ stylistic features and poets’ socio-political outlooks on cultural issues within the time frames of Renaissance in the British poetic tradition.