ENLT 237 - (CL) The Darker Romantics

3 cr.

A survey of the second half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats, and at least three “minor” writers of this era.  Discussions will focus on the waning of the “Romantic religion” of Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth in an increasingly prosperous, skeptical, and secularized era.