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ENG215: Survey of English Literature (I) Medieval and Renaissance
This course is a two-credit unit undergraduate course aimed at exposing you to two of the major literary periods of English literature – the Medieval and the Renaissance. These periods – the 11th to 16th centuries of the medieval phase, and the early 16th to 17th centuries of the Renaissance phase - exhibit two contrary worldviews, philosophies, beliefs and inventions in the history of England.
What Will You Learn?
he course will also acquaint you with some of the great literary writers – authors, poets, dramatists, translators – of the periods: Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, John Milton, Anne Askew, amongst others. You are encouraged to develop keen interest in the contents of this course in order to be conversant with some of the major achievements and breakthroughs in English literary history.
