課程介紹
This course surveys some of the major debates and developments in English poetry. It gives students the opportunity to explore seminal texts of poetry criticism such as Plato’s Republic and T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and Individual Talent”, and a wide range of poems, short and long ones, written in multiple forms—sonnet, epic, elegy, lyric, and dramatic monologue—from antiquity to the modernist era. Poets studied in this course include Virgil, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, Alfred Tennyson, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and T.S. Eliot. In reading and discussing a selected work, we will pay particular attention to its author, contexts and formal features (form, genre, meter, rhyme, etc). Above all, we will consider the ways in which poets engaged with important issues of their times that still matter to us.
At the end of the course, students will be able to:
(1) Become familiar with some of the major debates and developments in English poetry
(2) Identity and analyze poetry of various genres and forms
(3) Demonstrate knowledge of English poets from different literary periods
(4) Enhance their reading skills and critical thinking through complex poetic texts.
(5) Develop an understanding of the formal, stylistic, and aesthetic qualities of poetic
texts
(1) Become familiar with some of the major debates and developments in English poetry
(2) Identity and analyze poetry of various genres and forms
(3) Demonstrate knowledge of English poets from different literary periods
(4) Enhance their reading skills and critical thinking through complex poetic texts.
(5) Develop an understanding of the formal, stylistic, and aesthetic qualities of poetic
texts
| Evaluation | ||||
| 40% Oral and Writing Tasks (group presentations 20%; Oral presentation10%; Writing Assignment 10% ) 15% attendance (attendance 15%) 45% exams (20% Midterm, 20% Final; quizzes 5%) Individual Presentation: Talk about a poem that fascinates you in a 5- minute talk. In it, you should recite the poem, briefly introduce its author and context as well as explain its appeal to you. Group Presentation: 2 group presentation on any topic of the team's choice in week 8 and 17. Writing Tasks: You should submit a 500-word essay based on your oral presentation |
| Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website | ||||
| Study guides and reading questions sheets will be available via I-Learning BBC Podcasts: Plato’s Republic: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08vwn6h Aristotle’s Poetics: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xw210 Virgil’s Aeneid: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003k9c1 Shakespeare’s Sonnets: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00547gy Milton’s Paradise Lost: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548bg Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01cwszf Tennyson’s In Memoriam: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0124pnq Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Auroa Leigh: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0745d37 Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xmx42 T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hlb38 |
教科書:
Selected texts will be made available in a course pack
教學進度:
Week 1: Introduction (9/10)
Classical Poetry and Criticism (Week 2-3)
Week 2: (9/17)
Virgil’s Aeneid, Book IV
Ovid’s Heroides, Letter VII
Week 3: (9/24; Holiday)
Week 4 (10/1)
Plato’s Republic (3 and 10)
Aristotle’s Poetics
Renaissance Poetry (Week 5 and 6)
Week 5 (10/8)
Petrarch's and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Week 6 (10/15)
Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 1
Week 7 (10/22)
Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 2
Week 8 (10/29)
Group Presentations
Week 9 (11/5)
Mid-Term
Romantic Poetry (week 10-12)
Week 10 (11/12)
Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802), “Expostulation and Reply”, “The Tables Turned”, “Simon Lee” “We Are Seven”
Week 11 (11/19)
Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Victorian Poetry (week 12-14)
Week 12 (11/26)
John Stuart Mill’s “What is Poetry?”
Robert Browning's “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Fra Lippo Lippi”
Week 13 (12/3)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of Children” and Sonnets from the
Portuguese
Week 14 (12/10)
Tennyson’s In Memoriam
Modernist Poetry
Week 15 (12/17)
T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and Individual Talent” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
Week 16 (12/24) Group Presentations
Week 17 (12/31; Holiday)
Week 18 (1/7) Final
Classical Poetry and Criticism (Week 2-3)
Week 2: (9/17)
Virgil’s Aeneid, Book IV
Ovid’s Heroides, Letter VII
Week 3: (9/24; Holiday)
Week 4 (10/1)
Plato’s Republic (3 and 10)
Aristotle’s Poetics
Renaissance Poetry (Week 5 and 6)
Week 5 (10/8)
Petrarch's and Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Week 6 (10/15)
Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 1
Week 7 (10/22)
Milton’s Paradise Lost: Book 2
Week 8 (10/29)
Group Presentations
Week 9 (11/5)
Mid-Term
Romantic Poetry (week 10-12)
Week 10 (11/12)
Wordsworth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802), “Expostulation and Reply”, “The Tables Turned”, “Simon Lee” “We Are Seven”
Week 11 (11/19)
Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage
Victorian Poetry (week 12-14)
Week 12 (11/26)
John Stuart Mill’s “What is Poetry?”
Robert Browning's “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Fra Lippo Lippi”
Week 13 (12/3)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “The Cry of Children” and Sonnets from the
Portuguese
Week 14 (12/10)
Tennyson’s In Memoriam
Modernist Poetry
Week 15 (12/17)
T.S. Eliot’s “Tradition and Individual Talent” and “The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock”
Week 16 (12/24) Group Presentations
Week 17 (12/31; Holiday)
Week 18 (1/7) Final
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