Socratic seminar on the literature of the Early Modern through Victorian periods. Will include genres such as plays, lyric poetry, narrative poetry, political satire, political history, the essay, and the novel, featuring the work of authors such as Shakespeare, Petrarch, Herbert, Donne, Milton, More, Machiavelli, Swift, Moliere, Montaigne, Voltaire, Austen, Dickens and Hopkins.