ENGL 350Seventeenth-Century Non-Dramatic Literature
- Faculty
- Arts
- Last listed
- 1981–82
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1963–64 to 1981–82; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Special attention will be given to the poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell and to the prose works of Bacon, Burton, and Browne. Approximately half the course will be devoted to an intensive study of Milton’s English poetry and a selection of his prose works.
As printed in the 1975–76 to 1981–82 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
Requirements, as last listed
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1981–82, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1975–76 to 1981–82 7 calendars
Special attention will be given to the poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell and to the prose works of Bacon, Burton, and Browne. Approximately half the course will be devoted to an intensive study of Milton’s English poetry and a selection of his prose works.
Also offered at St. Jerome's College.
1974–75 1 calendar
A study of the non-dramatic literature of the late Renaissance in England. Special attention will be given to the rich lyric achievement of the poets of this period in both secular and religious themes. The poetry of Donne, Jonson, Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell will be studied intensively. Developments in intellectual and cultural history and in prose style will be considered in the prose works of Jonson, Bacon, Burton, Browne, and Milton. Nearly all of Milton’s English poetry will be examined in the context of the traditions and conventions of Renaissance literature as well as in the context of the revolutionary era of the English Civil War and Interregnum. Among topics studied will be Milton’s treatment of God’s Providence, man’s freedom, man’s temptation and fall, and man’s regeneration.
1963–64 to 1973–74 11 calendars
A study of the nondramatic literature of the Jacobean, Caroline, and Interregnum periods, with special attention to Milton’s major works.
2 lectures.