This course provides a selective encounter with the poetry of the British tradition. Texts and topics may be drawn from the later Renaissance (16th c.) up through the present day, exploring the depth, history, and continued vitality of British poetry. Particular attention is paid to the formal aspects and skills of reading poetry in different periods and styles. Reading may include authors and texts such as the sonnets and songs of Philip Sidney and Shakespeare; the verse of John Milton and other seventeenth-century poets; Alexander Pope and his contemporaries; Victorians and pre-Raphaelites such as E. B. Browning and Christina Rossetti; Modernists such as Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and H.D.; and contemporary British, Irish, and Scottish poets. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.