<p>Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B. Consideration of poetry across genres and throughout period. Topics may include rise of satire, verse forms including Pindaric ode, mock-epic, and verse-epistle, questions of literary imitation and originality, poetry’s relationship to empire, and gendering of authorship. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change. P/NP or letter grading.</p>

English

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College of Letters and Science

The department is dedicated to the study of the literatures and cultures of those parts of the world in which English is a primary language.

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Poetry in English to 1850

ENGL161A

5 units