ENG 319 - Milton and Spenser: Radicals Making a Tradition

A sophomore course in literature(3)h

Intensive study of the major works of Edmund Spenser and John Milton, the two most important non-dramatic poets of 16th – and 17th-century England, in their socio-political contexts. Special focus on how an essentially radical English literary tradition was created by poets in the process of reading and rewriting their predecessors.