ENGL 202: Major English Writers II

Exploring Major English Writers from about 1790 to 1945

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7. The French Revolution, part 1

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The French Revolution upended the established order and precipitated debate about "the rights of man."

6. Sublime passages in Wordsworth's Prelude

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Wordsworth's lengthy autobiographical poem, The Prelude: or Growth of a Poet's Mind, gives us another opportunity to explore the concept of...

5. Percy B. Shelley's "Mont Blanc"

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An examination of a poem that is an excellent representative of the concept of the sublime.

4. The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque

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Introduces some key aesthetic concepts of the Romantic period.

3. Romantic Period Characteristics

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Description of some of the general characteristics of much of the literature of the Romantic Period.