LIT 146A - British Literature through 1785

This course is designed for students interested in learning about British literature from the Old English period (circa 450 until circa 1150 C.E.) to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Bacon, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, and Fielding are among the major British writers that are discussed in the course.