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ENGLISH POETRY COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code Name of the Course Unit Semester In-Class Hours (T+P) Credit ECTS Credit
ELL206 ENGLISH POETRY 4 3 3 6

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week Preparatory Topics(Subjects) Method
1 - Renaissance: Historical background “Queen Elisabeth’s Speech” Major poetic forms and themes of the period: sonnet, chain of being, man’s place on earth Shakespeare: Hamlet’s Soliloqui on man Lecture & Discussion
2 Reading the Material Assigned Sixteenth Century Poetry Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: ‘The Means to Attain a Happy Life’ Nicholas Breton: “A Country Song” Edmund Spenser: “Easter Day” Christopher Marlowe: “The Aspiring Mind” and “Beauty Inexpressible” Lecture & Discussion
3 Reading the Material Assigned William Shakespeare: “ ’My Mistress’ eyes…’ ” , “Love and Time”, ”Eternity Through Poetry” Seventeenth Century Poetry Thomas Campion: “ ‘There is a Garden…’ “, ‘When to her Lute Corinna Sings…’ , ‘Rose-cheeked Laura, come…’ Sir Henry Wotton: “The Character of a Happy Life” Lecture & Discussion
4 Reading the Material Assigned Ben Johnson: ‘Still to be neat…’ and “That Women are but Men’s Shadows” Abraham Cowley: “Platonic Love” George Herbert: “Love-joy” and “The Altar Robert Herrick: “Upon Julia’s Clothes” and Delight in Disorder” Lecture & Discussion
5 Reading the Material Assigned Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne: “The Flea” and “The Relic” Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress” Age of Reason: Cultural Background Lecture & Discussion
6 Reading the Material Assigned Eighteenth Century Poetry Alexander Pope: “Nature and Art” , “An Essay on Man” , “The Critic’s Task” and “The Return of Chaos” Lecture & Discussion
7 Reading the Material Assigned Nineteenth Century: Historical and Cultural Background, poetic forms and themes Romantic Poetry: William Blake: “A Poison Tree”, “The Garden of Love”, “The Sick Rose” and “Chimney Sweeper” Lecture & Discussion
8 - MID-TERM EXAM -
9 Reading the Material Assigned William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge: “Introduction to Lyrical Ballads” William Wordsworth: ‘I Wandered lonely as a cloud…’, ‘She Dwelt among the untrodden ways..’. ‘A slumber did my spirit seal…’ ‘Tables Turned’’ Lecture & Discussion
10 Reading the Material Assigned Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘Sonnet to the River Otter’, ‘To Nature’ , ‘Kubla Khan’ Percy Bysshe Shelley: “A Defence of Poetry Lecture & Discussion
11 Reading the Material Assigned Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ozymandias”, and ‘England in 1819’ John Keats: “Ode to a Grecian Urn”, ‘Ode to Maia’ Lecture & Discussion
12 Reading the Material Assigned Victorian Poeetry Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” Elisabeth Barrett Browning: ‘A Musical Instrument’ Dante Gabriel Rossetti: ‘Body’s Beauty’ Lecture & Discussion
13 Reading the Material Assigned Christina Rosetti: ‘Song’, and ‘Remember’ Beginnings of Modernist Poetry: Cultural and Literary Background Gerald Manley Hopkins: ‘God’s Grandeur’ Thomas Hardy: ‘The Darkling Thrush’, ‘The Convergence of the Twain’ Lecture & Discussion
14 Reading the Material Assigned Modern Poetry William Butler Yeats: ‘No Second Troy’, ‘Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop’ W.H. Auden: “Unkown Citizen” and ‘Musee de Beaux Arts Lecture & Discussion
15 Reading the Material Assigned Modern Poetry William Butler Yeats: ‘No Second Troy’, ‘Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop’ W.H. Auden: “Unkown Citizen” and ‘Musee de Beaux Arts Lecture & Discussion
16 - FINAL EXAM -
17 - FINAL EXAM -