1971-1972 Academic Catalog

233 MAJOR BRITISH WRITERS-A, Sp Prerequisite: English 130 COMMUNICATIONS 61 Emphasis on careful analysis of selected works of major writers from Chaucer through 1900. Five credit hours 331 THE ENGLISH NOVEL (1971- 72 and alternate years) Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course A reading and critical analysis of representative novels of the period from Richardson to Hardy. Three credit hours 332 POETRY OF THE ROMANTIC PERIOD ( 1972-73 and alternate years) Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course A study of the characteristics of Romanticism and the writings of the ma- jor poets of this period. Three credit hours 333 MILTON AND THE METAPHYSICAL POETS Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course (1971-72 and alternate years) The major prose and poetry of John Milton, particularly Paradise Lost, and selected works of the major Metaphysical poets of the 17th century. Three credit hours 334 THE RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1970-71 and Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course alternate years) A study of the principal writers from Dryden to Blake with emphasis on Pope and Swift. Three credit hours 335 SHAKESPEARE-A Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature coPJrse Representative comedies, history plays, tragedies and sonnets. 336 THE VICTORIAN PERIOD Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course Five credit hours A study of the major Victorian poets and novelists, with emphasis on Ten- nyson, Browning, and Arnold. Three credit hours 338 CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE ( 1971-72 and alternate years) Prerequisite: English 103 A study of die development of British literature from the end of the nine– teenth cenn1ry to the present, with emphasis on the major poets and novelists. 341 AMERICAN ROMANTICISM Prerequisite: Any 200 level literature course Three credit hours Major writers of the American romantic movement are studied against the social and philosophical background of their time. Emphais on Poe, Haw– thorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Three credit hours