Studies of selected American, British, and Continental poems to increase students understanding and appreciation of poetic forms and their historical development. Stresses critical reading and writing. Studies plays from Sophocles to important twentieth century dramatists. Stresses critical reading and composition. A reading, writing, and discussion course concentrating on significant American and British literature since 1950.
Emphasis is placed upon careful critical analysis of works in short story, novel, drama and poetry.
English 102 and 205. Studies selected poems and ten representative plays. Consideration of Elizabethan and Jacobean life and letters in relation to Shakespeare's work. English 102 and 205. Studies ten significant plays not studied in English 215.