The course aims at an understanding and appreciation of Romantic poetry: how to read poetry; how to analyse verse form; how poetic devices function and how to make sense of poetic license.
Issues of poetic language, rhetoric, and genre, and the social context and the audience of all these works will be considered.
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Course Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes | Program Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
1) To introduce period literature and highlight various defining features of poetry of the age. | 1-2, 5-6, 8-10 | 1,2,3 | A, C |
2) To equip the students with the knowledge necessary to interpret and discuss poetry of the period in terms of trends and meaning. | 1-2, 5-6, 8-10 | 1,2,3 | A, C |
3) To equip the students with the terminology necessary to analyse and discuss poetry. | 1-2, 5-6, 8-10 | 1,2,3 | A, C |
4) To develop an understanding of how the many different elements of poetry function together to create the overall effect the poet was aiming for. | 1-2, 5-6, 8-10 | 1,2,3 | A, C |
5) 5) To equip the students with the necessary critical faculties for a successful understanding of literature in general, poetry in particular. | 1-2, 5-6, 8-10 | 1,2,3 | A, C |
Course Flow
COURSE CONTENT | ||
Week | Topics | Study Materials |
1 | Introduction | Materials for the course provided by instructor |
2 | Readings by Thomas Gray and Thomas Warton | |
3 | Readings by Anna Seward and Charlotte Smith | |
4 | Readings by Wordsworth I | |
5 | Readings by Wordsworth II | |
6 | Readings by Wordsworth III | |
7 | Readings by Coleridge I | |
8 | Readings by Coleridge II | |
9 | Readings by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and John Thelwall | |
10 | Readings by Keats | |
11 | Readings by Keats | |
12 | Students’ presentations | |
13 | Students’ presentations | |
14 | Students’ presentations | |
15 | Conclusion |
Recommended Sources
RECOMMENDED SOURCES | |
Textbook |
Gordon, George, and Lord Byron. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000
Keats, John. John Keats: Complete Poems. Edited by Jack Stillinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Edited by Marilyn Butler. New York, NY: Oxford UP Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Dover, 1993 Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. |
Additional Resources |
Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by
David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Original Sonnets on Various Subjects; and Odes Paraphrased from Horace. 2nd ed. London, UK: G. Sael The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Edited by Stuart Curran. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993 Wordsworth. "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement. 1801. Reprinted by Oxford, UK: Woodstock Books, 1989 Hazlitt, William. "On Poetry in General." In Selected Writings. Edited by Jon Cook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991 |
Assessment
ASSESSMENT | ||
IN-TERM STUDIES | NUMBER | PERCENTAGE |
Mid-Term | 1 | 35 |
Class Performance | 1 | 30 |
Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
Total | 100 | |
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE | 35 | |
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE | 65 | |
Total | 100 |
Course’s Contribution to Program
COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM | |||||||
No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | |||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
1 | The ability to apply knowledge of English and world literature and social sciences to topics including culture, society, ethics, politics etc. | X | |||||
2 | The ability to review, analyse and apply the relevant literature | X | |||||
3 | The ability to carry out interdisciplinary reading and analysis. | X | |||||
4 | The ability to utilise the basic concepts and issues of literary theories in developing life strategies | X | |||||
5 | Awareness of professional ethics and responsibility | X | |||||
6 | Effective communication skills. | X | |||||
7 | A sufficiently broad education to understand the global and social impact of literary movements. | X | |||||
8 | An awareness of the importance of lifelong learning and the ability to put it into practice. | X | |||||
9 | Knowledge of issues in contemporary literature and of the cultural issues of the period. | X | |||||
10 | The ability to use sources and modern tools in order to carry out research in the areas of literature and aesthetics. | X |
ECTS
ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION | ||||||
Activities | Quantity |
Duration (Hour) |
Total
Workload (Hour) |
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Course Duration (Including exam week: 15x Total course hrs) | 15 | 3 | 45 | |||
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 14 | 17 | 252 | |||
Presentation | 1 | 18 | 18 | |||
Final Paper | 1 | 60 | 60 | |||
Total Work Load | 375 | |||||
Total Work Load / 25 (h) | 15.0 | |||||
ECTS Credit of the Course | 15 |