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2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2017-2018 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ENL 307 - The English Renaissance

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
A chronological overview of the major literary works, themes, and genres of the English Renaissance from Caxton and the inception of printing through Milton and the last of the great Renaissance epics. The course focuses on the development of poetic genres and on representative prose forms. Writers studied include Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Vaughn, and Milton.
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