ENGL30433

Prerequisites: ENGL 10803, ENGL 20803, and at least one 10000- or 20000-level ENGL/WRIT/CRWT course. Survey of 16th- and 17th-century English verse, with particular attention to aesthetic, political, and religious functions of poetry; the status of poets in early modern England; and the effects of societal changes on the production of poetry in the period.