Participation in class discussion will also be a factor in determining each student's final grade. May be repeated for credit with department permission. Frequent short papers, one longer paper, a midterm and a final exam. One of the sequence of the courses required for English concentrators, although open to others, this course treats a number of significant British writers from the late seventeenth through the early nineteenth centuries, as well as an American nineteenth century writer. Included in the reading will be poetry by Dryden, Pope, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Coleridge, prose by Swift, and fiction by Fielding, Jane Austen, and Hawthorne.
Class method is discussion and interruptible lecture.
Probably two short papers, a midterm, and a final exam. We will examine selected texts in British and American literature from 1850 to 1950. The emphasis will be on novels and short stories, but we will also read a representative selection of Victorian and modern poems, and at least one play. Poems include works by Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Hughes, and several Great War poets. Students should have taken English 355 and 356 before electing this course.