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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 |
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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” |
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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” |
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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” |
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Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne: “The Flea” and “The Relic” Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress” Age of Reason: Cultural Background |
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Eighteenth Century Poetry Alexander Pope: “Nature and Art” , “An Essay on Man” , “The Critic’s Task” and “The Return of Chaos” |
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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” |
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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’’ |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘Sonnet to the River Otter’, ‘To Nature’ , ‘Kubla Khan’ Percy Bysshe Shelley: “A Defence of Poetry |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Ozymandias”, and ‘England in 1819’ John Keats: “Ode to a Grecian Urn”, ‘Ode to Maia’ |
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Victorian Poeetry Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” Elisabeth Barrett Browning: ‘A Musical Instrument’ Dante Gabriel Rossetti: ‘Body’s Beauty’ |
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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’ |
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Modern Poetry William Butler Yeats: ‘No Second Troy’, ‘Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop’ W.H. Auden: “Unkown Citizen” and ‘Musee de Beaux Arts |
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Modern Poetry William Butler Yeats: ‘No Second Troy’, ‘Crazy Jane Talks With the Bishop’ W.H. Auden: “Unkown Citizen” and ‘Musee de Beaux Arts |
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FINAL EXAM |
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FINAL EXAM |
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