Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Studies
- Code
- BBI-ANG-227E.q
- Title
- Reading Literary Texts: 18th Century English Poetry
- Usual semester
- Both
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to acquaint students with some of the more important genres, conventions, verse forms and characteristics of 18th century poetry, to help students in being able to read poetical texts from the period, and to bring closer to them a kind of literature that is relatively difficult to access for student’s today.
- Course content
- The course is built up of seminars in whcih we read extrtacts from canonical, central works of the perios. The works (extracts) are chosen and grouped so as to introduce students to couplet poetics, the implications and ways of the use of blank verse, the generic peculiarities of satires, the manifestations of the conversational ideal, the importance of poetic voice, the chracteristics of personification, amongst other subjects.
- Assessment method
- Assessment is based on attendance and participation in class discussions, and an end-term home essay of 6-8 pages on a subject agreed upon by the instructor; the essay has to contain textual analysis, and reference to at least three items of critical literature.
- Bibliography
- Primary texts (extracts from longer works will be recieved by students on handouts): Pope, An Epistle to Cobham, Pope, An Essay on Criticism, Pope, An Epistle to Arbuthnot, Thomson, The Seasons, Johnson, The Vanity of Human Wishes (to be read in full), Collins, Ode on the Poetic Character (to be read in full); Gray, The Progress of Poesy (to be read in full), Ossianic poetry Secondary sources (recommended, not compulsory): - Christine Gerrard, ed., A Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry (Blackwell, 2006) - Claude Rawson, ed., English Satire and the Satiric Tradition (Oxford, 1984) - John Sitter, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry (Cambridge, 2001) - E. Rothstein, Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry. (Routledge, 1981) - Margaret Doody, The Daring Muse: Augustan Poetry Reconsidered (Cambridge, 1985) - Howard Erskine-Hill, The Augustan Idea in English Literature (London, 1983) - John Sitter, The Cambridge Introduction to Eighteenth-Century Poetry (Cambridge, 2011)