English 45A

Other Readings and Media

Chaucer, G.: Canterbury Tales (ed. Kolve and Olson); Spenser, E.: Edmund Spenser's Poetry (ed. Maclean and Prescott); Donne, J.: John Donne's Poetry (ed. Dickson); Milton, J.: Paradise Lost (ed. Kerrigan, et al.)

Description

An introduction to English literary history from the fourteenth through the seventeenth centuries. Canterbury Tales, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost will dominate the semester, as objects of study in themselves, of course, but also as occasions for considering issues of linguistic and cultural change, and of literary language, form, and innovation.