A thematic survey of British literature from the Neo-Classical period through the Romantic and Victorian eras and ending in the Modern period. Representative works of fiction, essays, poetry, and drama will be approached through such themes as nature, tradition, freedom, individuality, work, sentimentality, and education. Major writers including but not limited to Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Arnold, Tennyson, Dickens, the Brontes, G. Eliot, Hopkins, Yeats, and Lawrence will be studied to see these themes evolving.