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2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2023-2024 Undergraduate Catalog

ENGL 301 - British Literature I

3 Credits

(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. Talking trees, a wise dwarf, vomiting dragons, a sorcerer, warring sprites, and a recipe for eating babies make up some of the arresting content you could encounter in this course.  This course is a survey of British literature and literary history from Old English through the eighteenth century. Major writers and works to be studied include Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.