The Literary Tradition: Reformation, Restoration, and Romanticism

Beginning with Milton’s Paradise Lost, the course moves past the Reformation period into the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century and concludes with Romanticism. Authors include Dryden, Swift, Pope, and the English Romantics from Wordsworth to Keats. Students will demonstrate their understanding of the literature in class discussion and written compositions.

Syllabus, LIT302