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NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS

SCHOOL OF PHILOSOPHY

FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

 

FALL SEMESTER 2021-22

3rd SEMESTER COURSE: ENGLISH POETRY

 

Section 1 (Α-Κατ)

 

Instructor: Dr. Vassiliki Markidou

 

Classes will be held from on Thursdays, 9:15 to 11:15 in room 822, School of Philosophy Building. It is imperative to be there at 9:00 so that all the necessary preparatory processes take place.

 

Οffice hour: Thursday, 12:00-13:00 (& by appointment)

Office: 903, School of Philosophy Building

E-mail address: vmarkidou@enl.uoa.gr

 

 

                                                            Course Description

 

The course has two main aims: a) to familiarise students with poetic elements such as imagery, figures of speech, sound, rhythm, symbol, myth, in order to enable them to read, analyse and appreciate poetry; b) to offer them a historical survey of British poetry in conjunction with examining the ways in which the various poets have made use of the above-mentioned elements in order to express their ideas and feelings throughout the centuries.

 

Please make sure you have read the allocated texts before coming to class. Your active participation is both required and expected. Please bring the appropriate texts to class every week.

 

 

Part I. Elements of Poetry

 

1. What is Poetry? Reading a poem
   • Lyric poetry: hymn, elegy, ode, song, sonnet
   • Narrative poetry: epic, ballad, romance
   • Tones
   • The person in the poem
   • Meaning and idea
   • Irony
   • Denotation and Connotation

 

2. Words
   • Literal meaning
   • Word choice and word order

 

3. Imagery

 

4. Figures of speech
   • Metaphor, simile, personification, metonymy, pun
   • Paradox, overstatement, understatement, allusion, onomatopoeia

 

5. Sound as meaning
   • Alliteration and Assonance
   • Rime

 

6. Rhythm
   • Stresses and Pauses
   • Meter

6.2.1.Measure and scansion

• Musical devices

 

7.Pattern

7.1. Closed form

7.1.1. Blank verse

7.1.2. Stanza: couplet, tercet, quatrain

7.2. Open form

 

8. Symbolism

 

9. Allegory
10. Myth

 

 

Part II. A Survey of English Poetry

 

Medieval Period

1. Chaucer: Canterbury Tales, Prologue (extract)

 

Renaissance Period

 

1. Wyatt: Farewell Love
2. Surrey: Soote Season
3. Sidney: Astrophil and Stella, 1
4. Spenser: Amoretti, 75
5. Shakespeare: Sonnets, 18
6. Donne: Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
7. Marvell: To his Coy Mistress
8. Milton: Lycidas (extract)

 

Restoration and Neo-Classical Period

 

1. Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
2. Johnson: Vanity of Human Wishes (extract)
3. Pope: The Rape of the Lock (extract)
4. Gray: Elegy in a Country Churchyard

 

Romantic Period

1. Blake: London
2. Wordsworth: A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
3. Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (extract)
4. Byron: Manfred (extract)
5. Shelley: Ozymandias
6. Keats: La Belle Dame Sans Merci

 

Victorian Period

1. Tennyson: The Lady of Shallott
2. Browning: My Last Duchess
3. Arnold: Dover Beach

 

Modern Period

1. Yeats: The Second Coming
2. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts
3. Thomas: Do not go Gentle into that Good Night
4. Larkin: Talking in Bed

 

 

Suggestive Bibliography (on reserve in the library)

 

Boitani, Piero and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

 

Bristow, Joseph, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

 

Corns, Thomas N., ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry: Donne to Marvell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

 

Curran, Stuart, ed. The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

 

Heale, Elizabeth. Wyatt, Surrey and Early Tudor Poetry. London & New York: Longman, 1998.

 

Kennedy, X. J. and Dana Goia, eds. An Introduction to Poetry. 12^th edn. New York: Pearson, Longman, 2007.

 

Levenson, Michael H., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

 

Rawson, Claude Julien, ed. The Cambridge Companion to English Poets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.

 

Sitter, John, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

 

Waller, Gary. English Poetry of the Sixteenth Century. London: Longman, 1986.

 

Williams, John: Twentieth-Century Britsh Poetry: A Critical Introduction. London: Edward Arnold, 1987.

 

 

 

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