ENGL 305 - Victorian Poetry

Institution:

Trinity College

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Description:

This course will focus on the achievements of Tennyson, the Brownings, the Rossettis, Arnold, Swinburne, Hopkins, and Hardy in relation to nineteenth-century aesthetics and poetics. We will study the forms and history of specific lyric, dramatic, and epic genres as well as topics that have made Victorian poetry immensely popular and controversial: revivals of medieval and Italian Renaissance subjects and art; the relationship between poetry and the visual arts; socially conscious versus art-for-art's sake aesthetics; the gendering of lyric as feminine and epic as masculine; devotional poetics and the crisis of faith; and the impact of psychological theories and Darwinism. 1.00 units, Lecture

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.Trincoll.edu

Phone Number:

(860) 297-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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