ENG 349 - Nature and the Arts

1 semester, 3 Credits Core Foundation/Proficiency: Writing II

Looks at the poems of Virgil and 17th-century continental landscape painting, then examines the ways 18th and 19th century British writers and artists adapted these models to express their own attitudes towards nature and rural life. Writers include Milton, Gray, Wollstonecraft, and Wordsworth; artists include Claude, Rubens, Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner. Usually includes fieldtrips to the Hay Library at Brown to view their works on 18th-century landscape gardening, to the RISD Museum to view their collection of British landscape watercolors, and to the Yale Center for British Art to view the collection of Constable and Turner landscapes.

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ENG 349 - Nature and the Arts