UNIVERSITY OF BABYLON
COLLEGE OF EDUCATION/ SAFIYIL DEEN
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH
COURSE TITLE: 16TH AND 17TH CENTURY POETRY (POETRY 1)
INSTRUCTOR: ASST. LEC. HADEEL A. MUHAMMED
CLASS: SECOND YEAR
ACADEMIC YEAR: 2011-2012
HOURS: as scheduled by department
EMAIL: ba.literature@ymail.com
COLLEGE SITE: (search by name of instructor)
FACEBOOK: Hadeel Aziz
TWITTER: LiteratureBa
OBJECTIVES:
Poetry is a true reflector of human emotions. It is the most spontaneous of all literary forms. It does not take much to write a poem nor to publish it; therefore, poetry has been the closest to mankind.
The Elizabethan Age is considered the Golden Age of literature as it is of many other fields. The English nation had displayed a unique openness to other nations and cultures: the effect of that open-mindedness has created a literary treasure which is worth contemplating.
Jacobean and Caroline poetry includes the Cavalier poets and the Metaphysical poets. They represent the seventeenth century with all its conflicts and struggle.
The Cavalier poets are not as accomplished in style and themes as the Elizabethans; however, they are marked as a school because of their lifestyle and religion. The Metaphysical poets, on the other hand, show a continuity of some aspects of the Elizabethan poetry, like the use of wit.
Students will be acquainted with the main features of these ages and will analyze some well-known poems. Therefore, they are expected to participate in class, whether via reading or answering questions.
To help the students fully understand the poetry of these ages and the poets’ career, selected well-known poems will be investigated and analysed. The students are required to participate in all class discussions, which will be best and most fruitfully achieved by their prior study of the poems.
TEXT BOOKS:
None. A pamphlet containing the syllabus poems will be handed to students. Additional poems will be posted online for further study.
REFERENCES:
v Edmundson and Wells, Shakespeare s Sonnets
v H. J. C. Grierson, Metaphysical Lyrics and Poems of the Seventeenth Century
v M. Schoenkeldt, A Companion to Shakespeare s Sonnets
v Martin Seymour-Smith, Shakespeare’s Sonnets
v P. Baines, The Complete Critical Guide to Alexander Pope
v R. Bradford, The Complete Critical Guide to John Milton
v Boris Ford, The Pelican Guide to English Literature, vol. 2
SYLLABUS POEMS:
· Thomas Wyatt
ü “Who so List to Hunt”
ü “They Flea from me”
· Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey
ü “Spring”
ü “Of the Death of Sir T. W.”
ü “Love that doth reign and live within my thought”
· Sir Walter Raleigh
ü “The Lie”
ü “Farewell to the Court”
· Philip Sidney
ü “O Sweet Woods”
· Michael Drayton
ü from “Idea’s Mirror” (sonnets 1, 3 and 61)
· Edmund Spenser
ü Introducing The Fairie Queene (Book I: Canto I: stanzas 1-5)
ü from Amoretti (sonnets 1, 34, 74 and 75)
· William Shakespeare
ü Sonnets (18, 23 and 130)
· John Donne
ü “A Valediction: Forbidding Morning”
ü from Holy Sonnets (“Death be not Proud” and “Batter my Heart”)
· George Herbert
ü “The Pulley”
ü “Vertue”
· Henry Vaughan
ü “Man”
· Ben Jonson
ü “To John Donne” (Donne, the delight of Pheobus and each Muse)
ü “On my First Daughter”
ü “On my First Son”
· Robert Herrick
ü “An Ode to Ben Jonson”
ü “To Anthea who may Command Him Anything”
· Richard Lovelace
ü “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars”
· Andrew Marvell
ü “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland”
ü “A Dialogue Between the Soul and the Body”
· Crashaw
ü “The Tear”
· John Milton
ü “On Shakespeare”
ü “On His Blindness”
ü Paradise Lost (Book IV)
· John Dryden
ü “Mac Flecknoe”
· Alexander Pope
ü Essay on Criticism (Part I)
· Samuel Johnson
ü from The Vanity of Human Wishes (lines 1-20, 135-164)
OTHER POEMS:
SCHEDULE:
WEEK 1 Orientation; Studying Poetry According to Ages
WEEK 2 Introduction to the Elizabethan Age
WEEK 3 The Renaissance and its Influence on Poetry
WEEK 4 Thomas Wyatt
WEEK 5 Henry Howard
WEEK 6 Sir Walter Raleigh
WEEK 7 Sir Walter Raleigh
WEEK 8 Philip Sidney
WEEK 9 Michael Drayton
WEEK 10 Edmund Spenser
WEEK 11 William Shakespeare
WEEK 12 William Shakespeare; Exam (1)
WEEK 13 The School of Donne
WEEK 14 John Donne
WEEK 15 John Donne
WEEK 16 George Herbert
WEEK 17 Henry Vaughan
WEEK 18 Exam (2); The Tribe of Ben Johnson
WEEK 19 Ben Jonson
WEEK 20 Ben Jonson
WEEK 21 Robert Herrick
WEEK 22 Richard Lovelace
WEEK 23 Andrew Marvell
WEEK 24 Crashaw
WEEK 25 John Milton
WEEK 26 John Milton
WEEK 27 John Dryden
WEEK 28 Exam (3); Alexander Pope
WEEK 29 Alexander Pope
WEEK 30 Samuel Johnson
DAILY PREPARATION AND ASSIGNMENTS:
Before attending class, students should read the poems assigned, check the meaning of all ambiguous words and attempt to understand the meaning of the text.
Assignments will be distributed among students frequently. Some assignments will require group work, others can be done individually. Two of the assignments are already set as follows:
1. A paper on one of the Elizabethan poems (which is not included in syllabus) to be presented orally in class and in written form to instructor. (before mid-term holiday)
2. A paper on one of Shakespeare’s sonnets (which is not included in syllabus) would be due three weeks after names are announced.
3. Reciting a poem: Each student is required to recite a poem in front of class paying attention to the intonation and stress rules to be studied this year (in Phonetics and Phonology). (anytime before final exams).
4. A group presentation on a chosen theme related to Poetry. (two weeks after a specific theme is set for each group)
EXAMS:
Students are to sit three exams as follows:
1st exam à in the third week of December, 2011
2nd exam à in the second week of March, 2012
3rd exam à in the last week of April, 2012
Quizzes are to be expected anytime.
ATTENDANCE:
As students may know, there is a limited number of unexcused absences from class:
2 hours à first notice
4 hours à second notice
6 hours à final notice
7 hours à student will be expelled from class for the rest of the year
Students would be listed absent if they attended classes late or did not conform to University uniform codes.
Once the student is expelled, s/he will fail the whole year and will NOT be allowed to participate in the final exams.
Note: If ever it is seen that students have pre-determined to be collectively absent, the students’ examination code is put into effect and students will lose marks for that.
MARKS:
The marks are divided 50/50 between the course activities and the final exam. The course marks will be calculated as follows:
32 marks à exams (10 each exam + 2 for quizzes)
3 marks à Activity in online discussions
12 marks à assignments (3 each)
3 marks à daily preparation
UNIVERSITY SITE
The following link is for the official website of the College of Education/ Safiyil Deen. http://www.uobabylon.edu.iq/uobcoleges/?fid=10
OR search in Yahoo or Google for the University of Babylon.
To keep in touch with your instructor, visit the site to post any questions related to your subject. Discussions will be held via Facebook and Twitter too, so students must register for accounts in both during the first week after receiving this handout.
Marks of ALL exams and exam dates will be found on the site of College of Education under the instructor’s name. Further notifications will be posted as well.
GENERAL NOTES ON USING INTERNET
1. Any kind of misbehaviour will not be tolerated and will be treated same as misbehaving in class.
2. Internet Service is available on cell phones as well as computers. No student will be excused from participating in online activities.
3. Keep your passwords (written) somewhere safe and NEVER share them via internet or mobile service.
4. Students have ONLY ONE WEEK to set all accounts and hand them to instructor.
5. Ask instructor before doing anything new. Spending time learning about using internet is part of the course goals. Besides, it would save your time and protect your account against hackers.
ACCOUNTS ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER
1. Use your real name. Any fake names will not be added to class groups.
2. Send your full name in Arabic, correct email, class and year in a private message before sending a Friend Request (on Facebook) or Follow(ing) (on Twitter). (With every assignment, ALL information must be stated clearly in Arabic at the top of page of your assignment)
3. Female students should NEVER use their own pictures in profiles.
4. Students of the same class will be grouped according to the needs of curriculum.
5. Avoid adding people you do not know to your list of friends. They might be hackers and that would force you to change your account and affect all your list of friends including the class group. Please do not compromise group work by inconsiderately adding such contacts.
6. The websites students are required to use are: www.facebook.com and www.twitter.com
COLLEGE WEBSITE
1. State name and class (in Arabic) with every question or comment. However, questions and comments MUST be always in English.
2. Lecture Summary (NOT full lectures) can be found by searching by the instructor’s name and your class. Guidelines will be posted online before lecture whenever necessary.
3. Marks of quizzes, exams, and any other activities can be searched as well.
4. Exam dates are already set and handed to students; however, they will be available on College website, as well, two weeks before any exam.
5. Any misuse of site will be reported to authorities and punished severely.