Sylabus:

Lectures:

1. Old and Middle English Poetry and Prose

2. Alliterative Revival, Geoffrey Chaucer

3. Renaissance Period – Background, Elizabethan Period, Renaissance love poetry

4. English Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare

5. Late Renaissance – Ben Jonson, John Donne

6. Civil War – John Milton and Others

7. Restoration Period – Drama and Prose

8. Eighteenth Century – Introduction and Poetry

9. The Rise of the Novel

10. The Development of the Novel, Late Classicism

11. Pre-Romantic Poetry

Seminars:

1. Introduction to the Course

2. Beowulf (extract)

3. The Canterbury Tales (“General Prologue” (excerpt), “Pardoner’s Tale”)

4. The Sonnet (Sidney, Spenser)

5. The Sonnet (Shakespeare)

6. Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (selected poems)

7. A Midsummer Night’s Dream (extract)

8. Hamlet (extract)

9. Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim`s Progress (extract)

10. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal

11. 18^th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract)

12. Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems)