Shakespeare's plays are not included in this course. Renaissance English Literature. Focused study in an area of renaissance English literature, such as Spenser, the sonnet, or Jacobean drama. Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature. A study of the literature of Dryden, Swift, Addison, Steele, Johnson, Goldsmith and other eighteenth-century writers.
Attention is given to the philosophical and literary currents of the period.
Romantic Movement in England. The works of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. The works of the major Victorian writers with emphasis on Tennyson and Browning. Colonial and Federalist American Literature. Romanticism in American Literature.