AJ16071 Seventeenth Century Poetry, Thought, and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2019
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus 2 credits for an exam). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Stephen Paul Hardy, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Jana Chamonikolasová, Ph.D.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 16:00–17:40 G23
Prerequisites (in Czech)
AJ01002 Practical English II
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This semester's course will consider aspects of the work of prominent seventeenth century poets, including Ben Jonson, John Donne, George Herbert, John Milton, and Andrew Marvell as well as ways in which their influence extends into eighteenth century poets such as John Dryden, Alexander Pope, George Crabbe and others. The course will also examine aspects of historical, political, and intellectual developments as well intimate and family relations in the period covered. Students completing the course will have negotiated these areas and have produced an essay of appropriate length analysing relevant aspects of those areas considered, in relation to the poetry considered, the social, historical and political aspects of the period, or a combination of these.
Learning outcomes
Students completing the course will have gained a better knowledge of the cultural element involved in some of the most intimate aspects of human life, as, in this case, presented through poetry of the period as well as an historical analysis of pertinent trends in that period.
Syllabus
  • Week 1:Sept.19th ORIENTATION WEEK: NO LESSON Week 2:Sept.26th: Introductory. Week 3:Oct.3rd:John Donne: The Flea, The Good Morrow, Air and Angels,The Ecstasy; John Donne: A Nocturnal Upon St Lucie's Day,A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning,The Relic; (Woman's Inconstancie; The Anniversary; L.Stone:Ch.1 Week 4:Oct.10th: John Donne: Holy Sonnets: 'As due by many titles I resign';'At the round earth's imagined corners'; Death be not proud,';Batter my heart three-person'd God;'Since she whom I lov'd hath paid her last debt'; Oh to vex me, contraries meet in one; Good Friday,1613, Riding Westward; A hymn to God the Father;L.Stone: Ch.2. Week 5:Oct.17th:Ben Jonson: To John Donne;To Penshurst; A Celebration of Charis in Ten pieces; Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland;L.Stone: Ch.3. Week 6:Oct 24th:George Herbert:Affliction (1), Paradise, The Collar,The Flower; The Banquet; The Rose; Discipline; Death, Redemption, Love(3); L.Stone:Ch:4&5 Week 7: Oct 31st:READING WEEK: NO LESSON Week 8: Nov.7th:John Milton: L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Lycidas L.Stone: Ch.6&7. WEEK 9: REKTORSKE VOLNO: LESSON POSTPONED! Week 10: Nov.14th:John Milton:Paradise Lost Book I,IV & IX;L.Stone: Ch.8 Week 11: Nov.21st: Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress;Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn; An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland;The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers, Bermudas;The Garden L.Stone Ch.9. Week 12: Dec 5th: Daniel Defoe: The True-Born Englishman;John Dryden: Absolon and Achitophel; Alexander Pope:Essay on Man L.Stone: Ch.10&11. Week 13:Dec.12th:A. Pope: Epistle to a Lady; T. Gray: Elegy in a Country Churchyard;G. Crabbe: The Deserted Village; W. Cowper: The Castaway; L.Stone: Ch.12&13.
Literature
    required literature
  • Lawrence Stone: The Family, Sex and Marriage in England: 1500- 1800 (London: Penguin, 1979)
  • The Complete poetry and selected prose of John Donne. Edited by John Donne - Charles M. Coffin. New York: Modern Library, 2001, xxxii, 697. ISBN 0375757341. info
  • MILTON, John. John Milton : selected shorter poems and prose writings. Edited by Tony Davies. London: Routledge, 1988, viii, 265. ISBN 0415006686. info
  • MILTON, John. Paradise Lost. Edited by Philip Brockbank - C. A. Patrides. London: Macmillan Education, 1986, 230 s. ISBN 0333007883. info
  • MARVELL, Andrew. The poems of Andrew Marvell. Edited by James Reeves - Martin Seymour-Smith. London: Heinemann, 1969, vi, 195 s. ISBN 0-435-15071-5. info
  • JONSON, Ben. Ben Jonson. Vol. 8, The poems ; The prose works. Edited by Evelyn Simpson - C. H. (Charles Harold) Herford - Percy Simpson. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1947, xviii, 674. info
  • HERBERT, George. The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert. Vol. 1, Verse. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart. London: [Robson], 1874, lxvi, 314. info
  • HERBERT, George. The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert. Vol. 2, Verse. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart. London: [Robson], 1874, cxlii, 237. info
  • HERBERT, George. The complete works in verse and prose of George Herbert. Vol. 3, Prose. Edited by Alexander B. Grosart. London: [Robson], 1874, xviii, 498. info
Teaching methods
The course will be taught through a combination of close reading, small-group discussion and class discussion.
Assessment methods
Class attendance and oral contribution (40%) plus essay of 6-10 pages(double-spaced) (60%). Essays should be submitted to my IS address by e-mail attachment.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2020.
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