ENGL 327 - Reading Renaissance Poetry

A survey of early modern English poetry by both men and women – as well as its Italian influences – from the reign of Henry VIII through the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, this course will consider Petrarch and Italian Petrarchans, as well as Wyatt and Surrey, Spenser, Sidney and Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne, Lanyer, Philips, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Dryden, and Finch.

Pre-req: ENGL 110 or ENGL 120 and/or ENGL 220
3 credits