LARTS 347 British Literature since the Romantic Era
Studies the works of individual poets and novelists within a national tradition, exploring the questions of artists' individual identity, their contribution to that tradition, and their own larger artistic ambitions. Students will read, discuss, and analyze works by major poets (including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron; Tennyson, Arnold, and Barrett Browning; Hopkins, Yeats, Eliot; Auden, Plath, Hughes, and Heaney), novelists (Dickens, Joyce, Lessing), and essayists (Carlyle, Ruskin, Woolf, and Orwell).