ENG 6620 Seventeenth-Century Metaphysical Literature

Discussion of the poetry of Donne, Marvell, Herbert, Vaughan, Crashaw, Thomas Traherne, Katherine Philips, and the prose of Sir Thomas Browne and Jeremy Taylor. Emphasis is on the metaphysical vision of a universe that is one and organic, concepts of human sexuality and death, and the techniques of private-mode poetry and prose.
Credits: 3.0