ANN-212/d
AN-212/d, AFN-212/d
English poetry (Angol költészet szem.) in autumn 2004
Pálvölgyi Lídia, Thu 14:00–15:30, ADS 211, host: DES (R338)
description & set texts
The course is designed to introduce students to the history of English poetry through close study of the works of the representative figures of English poetry as well as to complete the material of the lecture. Selected essays on poetic theory will be assigned as well. The course is focusing on improving the students’ skills at reading poetry and also familiarising them with the different periods of English poetry. Set texts: Edmund Spenser: Amoretti 34; William Shakespeare: Sonnet 129; John Donne: Valediction: Forbidding Weeping, To His Mistress Going to Bed; John Milton: When I consider how my light is spent, On the Late Massacre of Piedmont; John Dryden: A Song for St Cecilia’s Day; Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock; Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard; William Blake: poems from Songs of Innocence and Experience; William Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations of Immortality from the Recollections of Early Childhood, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud; S. T. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan; Lord Byron: Prometheus, So We’ll Go No More A-Roving; P.B. Shelley: Ozymandias, England in 1819, Ode to the West Wind, excerpt from A Defence of Poetry; John Keats: the Odes; Robert Browning: My Last Duchess; D.G. Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel; Thomas Hardy: She Hears the Storm; W.B. Yeats: The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Second coming, Sailing To Byzantium, T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Preludes (Most to be found in the ELTE Anthology of English Poetry)
requirements & assessment
The requirements include a short oral presentation of a chosen poem, plus a research paper (6-8 pages) elaborating some comparative aspect of two poems followed by an in-class test. Evaluation will be based on students’ participation in seminar discussion, and on oral and written work. Meeting pre-set deadlines is a must.