Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG-227E.B1
- Cím
- The Sonnet
- Tervezett félév
- Mindkét
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- The primary aim is to hone skills of interpretation through paying very close attention to uniquely subtle, complex and beautiful poems. While this is not a survey course, it will inevitably include a very fast journey through the history of English poetry from Early Modernity to (almost) the present day.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- 1) Petrarch, Rime 140, 190, Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503–1542), ‘Who so list to hounte: I know, where is an hynde’, ‘The long love that in my thought doth harbor’, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1517?–1547), ‘Love, that doth reign and live within my thought’ 2) Edmund Spenser (?1552–1599), from Amoretti (1595) 68, 75; Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586) from Astrophel and Stella (1591) 31.; from Certaine Sonnets ‘Leave me, O Love which reachest but to dust’ 3) William Shakespeare (1564–1616), from Sonnets 18., 129., 130. 4) John Donne (1572–1631), from Holy Sonnets 7., 10., 14. 5) George Herbert (1595–1633) ‘Two sonnets sent to his mother (1610)’, ‘Redemption’; John Milton (1608–1674), ‘When I consider how my light is spent’ 6) Thomas Warton, ‘While summer-suns o'er the gay prospect played’, Charlotte Smith, ‘Written Near a Port on a Dark Evening’ (1800), William Lisle Bowles (1762–1850), ‘To the River Wensbeck’ (1789) 7) William Wordsworth: ‘Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802’; ‘Surprised by joy – impatient as the wind’; S. T: Coleridge, ‘To the River Otter’ 8) Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘Ozymandias’, John Keats, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’, Felicia Hemans, ‘Mary at the Feet of Christ’ (1834) 9) Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806–61), from Sonnets from the Portugese, XIII., Christina Rosetti (1830–1894), ‘In an Artist’s Studio’; Dante Gabriel Rosetti, ‘Silent Noon’; 10) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889), ‘God’s Grandeur’; Thomas Hardy (1840–1928), ‘Hap’; William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), ‘Leda and the Swan’ 11) Wilfred Owen (1893–1918), ‘Futility’; W. H. Auden, from Sonnets from China XII, Philip Larkin, ‘Love, we must part now: do not let it be’ 12) Geoffrey Hill, ‘September Song’, Seamus Heaney, ‘The Forge’, Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Prayer’
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Grades are based on general in-class participation, short presentations, and a home essay (i.e. a 4–5 page analysis of a sonnet (possibly a comparison of more than one sonnets).
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Students will be asked to work from a course package prepared by the instructor.