ENG 6630 Jonson, Herrick and Their Contemporaries

Discussion of the Cavalier or Social Poets of the seventeenth century, including Jonson, Herrick, King, Carew, and Lovelace; the Public Poets, Milton and Dryden; and selected prose of Milton, Burton, and Bacon. Emphasis is on the concept of friendship and the nature of true happiness, which is central to these artists, and on the techniques of social and public poetry and prose.
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