ENGL 342 - Modern Epic

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Fall 2011 and alternate years

Prerequisite: Three credits in 200-level English.A study of post-Miltonic epic focusing on the crises and triumphs of this most aristocratic and traditional of forms, in an era increasingly characterized by economic progress, political reform, and revolution. The course centers upon major poems by such figures as Pope, Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, and Browning, but will supplement that emphasis by looking to relevant epic histories, novels, and films.Adams.