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HU Credits:
2
Degree/Cycle:
1st degree (Bachelor)
Responsible Department:
English
Semester:
1st Semester
Teaching Languages:
English
Campus:
Mt. Scopus
Course/Module Coordinator:
Dr. Micha Lazarus
Coordinator Office Hours:
Monday 14:30-15:30, 7812
Teaching Staff:
Dr. Micha Lazarus
Course/Module description:
An introduction to the poetry of the seventeenth century, from the accession of James I through the Restoration. Through close reading of major authors we will look at private and public styles; patronage and intimacy; writing for money; 'metaphysical' poetry'; the fashioning of a literary career; the English civil war, interregnum, and Restoration; poetic voice; New World poetry; the new science; libertinism; and innovations in this period in genres of English poetry such as elegy, pastoral, lyric, satire, 'songs and sonnets', devotional poetry, and more.
Course/Module aims:
To study a range of poetic genres, styles, and movements in seventeenth-century English poetry in their literary and historical context.
Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be able to:
Students will become familiar with major authors in English literary history. They will understand canonical works in their historical context. They will engage with current scholarly debates.
Attendance requirements(%):
100
Teaching arrangement and method of instruction:
Lecture and discussion
Course/Module Content:
Week 1: Introduction. Selections from Aemilia Lanyer and Ben Jonson.
Babb, 'The Physiology and Psychology of the Renaissance'
Week 2: Ben Jonson
Weeks 3-4: John Donne
Week 5: George Herbert
Week 6: Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan
John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, T. S. Eliot, Colin Burrow on the metaphysical poets.
Week 7: John Milton
Week 8: Robert Herrick
Week 9: Anne Bradstreet
Week 10: Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips
Week 11: John Dryden
Week 12: Andrew Marvell
Week 13: John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Required Reading:
Required text: Seventeenth-Century British Poetry, 1603-1660 (Norton, 2006).
Additional reading will be distributed in class or made available online.
Additional Reading Material:
Will be distributed in class or made available online.
Course/Module evaluation:
End of year written/oral examination 0 %
Presentation 0 %
Participation in Tutorials 0 %
Project work 70 %
Assignments 30 %
Reports 0 %
Research project 0 %
Quizzes 0 %
Other 0 %
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