ENG 55 - The Romantic Period

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Long Island University-C W Post Campus

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Description:

This course focuses on the works of seven major writers of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Leading colorful lives in a time of revolutionary fervor, the poets William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, George Gordon Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats forged a new poetic idiom while working in a variety of new ways. Among prose works of the period, William Blake's prose poem, The Marriage of Heaven Hell, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel Frankenstein provide a new mythology for understanding the relationship of God and humanity. Prerequisites of ENG 1 and ENG 2 are required.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.liu.edu

Phone Number:

(516) 299-2900

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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