ENGL 294 - Milton through the Romantics:Reason and Imagination

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Saint John Fisher University

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John Milton, who published Paradise Lost in 1667 at the end of his career, influenced every major writer in English for the next 150 years, yet each responded differently to Milton as a literary forebear. What did Milton mean to writers as different as Alexander Pope and William Wordsworth, and what accounts for their differences How do England's changing literary tastes reflect the social and economic changes that made it, by 1820, the world's foremost industrial power Why do classical literary forms give way to native English models, lyric displacing satiric verse How do the poems of Wordsworth and Blake reflect the revolutionary impulse felt throughout Europe The course considers these among other questions. Besides Milton, it includes such writers as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, Robert Burns, William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats.

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3.00

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www.sjfc.edu

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(585) 385-8000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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