ENGL 161A

Poetry in English to 1850

English · 5 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)

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Consideration of poetry across genres and throughout period. Topics may include rise of satire, verse forms including Pindaric ode, mock-epic, and verse-epistle, questions of literary imitation and originality, poetry’s relationship to empire, and gendering of authorship. May be repeated for credit with topic or instructor change.

P/NP or letter grading.

When it runs

Fall 2026

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Requisites

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Enforced requisites: courses 10A, 10B.

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ENGL 161A

ENGL 10ALiteratures in English to 1700
- ENGL 4HWCritical Reading and Writing (Honors)
  - ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it
- ENGL 4WCritical Reading and Writing
  - ENGCOMP 3English Composition, Rhetoric, and Languageanother path to it

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