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From Stone Age implements to the complexities of Elizabethan drama and the elaborate conceits of the metaphysical poets, this unit Includes passages from works such as the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, the influential essays of Bacon, Shakespeare's sonnets, Milton's opus Paradise Lost, and Bunyan's allegory The Pilgrim's Progress, examining each for the prevailing archetypes and themes present in each work. (CFL238)