ENG 314LEC
Writing in Digital Environment

Mostly non-dramatic literature from authors such as Donne, Lanyer, Jonson, Bacon, Marvell, Milton, Hobbes, Bunyan, Behn, Dryden, and the radical writers of the English Revolution. For example: S. Stevens, 17th Century Poetry and Prose This course will examine a wide variety of seventeenth-century poetry and prose. We will study such major authors as Ben Jonson, John Donne, and George Herbert as well as a number of less familiar Metaphysical and Cavalier poets. Among prose writers we will look at the important development in cultural history and prose styles represented by Francis Bacon, Thomas Browne, John Bunyan and others. All works will be read with attention to their culture and historical contexts. Issues such as the Protestant Reformation, the English Revolution, sexuality and gender, and the rise of science will be among the topics addressed in this course.

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