ENG 7352 English Romanticism
A study of the primary writing (poetry and prose) of the major British Romantic poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron and Keats), emphasizing the character of the romantic understanding of poetic imagination, the artist’s relation to society, the conception of religious, moral and political ends. Context may be provided by a discussion of continental and English philosophy and of German Romanticism.