Prose and Poetry II syllabus
HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SYLLABUS
Title of the Course: IED 373 British Poetry and Prose II
Instructor: Associate Prof Dr. Huriye Reis
Year and Term: 2011-2012 Autumn
Class Hours: Wednesday 13:00-15:45 (ZNG); huriye@hacettepe.edu.tr I.Aim and Contents: This course aims to present the Renaissance and the seventeenth -century English literature, the major conventions, themes and writers of these periods through a study of selected poems and prose works.
II.Course Outline
Week I and II: (5-12 October 2011)A historical, cultural and literary introduction to the Renaissance and the 17th century in England. Major developments and changes: Humanism, Reformation, the Elizabethan world view and literary conventions, and the change in the 17th century.
Thomas More, from Utopia.
Sir Thomas Hoby, from Castiglione’s The Courtier
Roger Ascham, from the SchoolMaster
Week III: The sonnet tradition, Selected sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare.
Week IV: Sonnet tradition continued, Renaissance lyrics and replies, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh
Week V : Renaissance ideas about poetry, the pastoral tradition and the mythological-erotic convention
Week VI: November 9 2011, No class, Bayram holiday)
Week VII: Sidney, “An Apology for Poetry”, Spenser, From Shapheardes Calendar, October Eclogue, Christopher Marlowe, from Hero and Leander
Week VIII: MIDTERM I (23 November 2011) Seventeenth-century poetry, modes and conventions
Week IX: Cavalier Poetry and Ben Jonson “Queen and Huntress,” Song to Celia, “On My First Daughter,” On My First Son”, Andrew Marvell ”To His Coy Misstress”, Robert Herrick Week X: Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne, love poems,
Week XI: John Donne, religious sonnets
Week XII: George Herbert , “ Easter Wings”, “The Altar”, “The Collar”, “Time”,
Week XIII: (28 December 2011) MIDTERM II
Week XIV: John Milton,
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
SYLLABUS
Title of the Course: IED 373 British Poetry and Prose II
Instructor: Associate Prof Dr. Huriye Reis
Year and Term: 2011-2012 Autumn
Class Hours: Wednesday 13:00-15:45 (ZNG); huriye@hacettepe.edu.tr I.Aim and Contents: This course aims to present the Renaissance and the seventeenth -century English literature, the major conventions, themes and writers of these periods through a study of selected poems and prose works.
II.Course Outline
Week I and II: (5-12 October 2011)A historical, cultural and literary introduction to the Renaissance and the 17th century in England. Major developments and changes: Humanism, Reformation, the Elizabethan world view and literary conventions, and the change in the 17th century.
Thomas More, from Utopia.
Sir Thomas Hoby, from Castiglione’s The Courtier
Roger Ascham, from the SchoolMaster
Week III: The sonnet tradition, Selected sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey, Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare.
Week IV: Sonnet tradition continued, Renaissance lyrics and replies, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh
Week V : Renaissance ideas about poetry, the pastoral tradition and the mythological-erotic convention
Week VI: November 9 2011, No class, Bayram holiday)
Week VII: Sidney, “An Apology for Poetry”, Spenser, From Shapheardes Calendar, October Eclogue, Christopher Marlowe, from Hero and Leander
Week VIII: MIDTERM I (23 November 2011) Seventeenth-century poetry, modes and conventions
Week IX: Cavalier Poetry and Ben Jonson “Queen and Huntress,” Song to Celia, “On My First Daughter,” On My First Son”, Andrew Marvell ”To His Coy Misstress”, Robert Herrick Week X: Metaphysical Poetry: John Donne, love poems,
Week XI: John Donne, religious sonnets
Week XII: George Herbert , “ Easter Wings”, “The Altar”, “The Collar”, “Time”,
Week XIII: (28 December 2011) MIDTERM II
Week XIV: John Milton,