ENGL 647
17th-Century Texts
Fall 2026 · ENGL 647 LEC A1: Seventeenth-Century Texts - The Literature of Solitude; M. Cárdenas · Course preview
Topics
- Seventeenth-century solitude
- Retirement poetry
- Loneliness and melancholy
Readings
- Burton, Robert. The Anatomy of Melancholy. Selections.
- Cavendish, Margaret. Poems and Fancies; World’s Olio.
- Milton, John. Paradise Lost; Poems of Mr John Milton (1645).
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- ENGL 567 LEC A1: Literary History - Mysticism, Hunger, and the Irish Gothic; R. Brazeau ↗2026
- ENGL 647 17TH CENTURY TEXTS · Reading-list link; contents not retrieved ↗
- Possible selected works; additional treatises and lyric poems are mentioned without individual titles.