Romantic Literature

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Introduction to the major poetry and prose of the Romantic period, ca. 1798-1832. Students will read works of poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats, and of prose writers such as William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir Walter Scott, and Charlotte Smith, presented against the background of the cultural and historical revolutions that took place in France and America.