ENL 4220 Gants Fall 2021

This course will cover the poetry and prose of England from the end of the War of the Roses to the beginnings of the English Civil War. We will organize our readings around three different manifestations of Love: 1) Romantic Love, or the various ways in which writers have represented the relations between men and women; 2) Love of God, or the varieties of religious experiences found in literature from this time; and 3) Love of Community, or the literature celebrating tribal, civic, national, and political identities.