AJ16071 Seventeenth Century Poetry, Thought, and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2020
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)
Mgr. Jan Čapek, Ph.D. (assistant)
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 18:00–19:40 G31
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 10 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/10, only registered: 0/10, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/10
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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: Oct 8th:ORIENTATION WEEK: NO LESSON Week 2: Oct 15th:Introductory. Week 3: Oct 22nd: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; The Anniversary; L.Stone:Ch.1 Ackroyd: Tudors: Chs 26-30 Week 4: Oct 29th: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; Meditation 17; Stone: Ch.2.; Ackroyd: Tudors: Chs. 31-35 Week 5:: Nov 5th:Ben Jonson: To John Donne;To Penshurst; A Celebration of Charis in Ten pieces; Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland;L.Stone: Ch.3.Ackroyd: Tudors: Chs 36-40; Civil War: Chs 1-5 Week 6: Nov. 12th:George Herbert:Affliction (1), Paradise, The Collar,The Flower; The Banquet; The Rose; Discipline; Death, Redemption, Love(3); L.Stone:Ch:4&5; Ackroyd: Civil War: Chs 6-17 Week 7: Nov 19th:READING WEEK: NO CLASS Week 8: Nov 26th: Richard Crashaw: To His Supposed Mistress;John Milton: L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Lycidas L.Stone: Chs.6&7. Ackroyd: Civil War: Chs.18-26 Week 9 : Dec. 3rd:John Milton:Paradise Lost Book I,IV & IX;L.Stone: Ch.8; Ackroyd: Civil War: Chs. 27-35 Week 10: Dec 10th: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; Upon Appleton House; L.Stone Ch.9; Ackroyd: Civil War: Chs.36-45 Week 11: Dec 17th:Daniel Defoe: The True-Born Englishman;John Dryden: Absolon and Achitophel; L.Stone: Ch.10; Ackroyd: Revolution: Chs.1-12 Week 12: J.Swift: The Lady's Dressing Room; A. Pope:Essay on Man: Epistle to a Lady; L.Stone: Ch.11 Ackroyd: Revolution: Chs. 13-19 Week 13: T.Gray: Elegy in a Country Churchyard; G. Crabbe: The Deserted Village; W. Cowper: The Castaway; L. Stone: Ch 12 & 13; Ackroyd: Chs.20-25
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
    not specified
  • Ackroyd, Peter Revolution. London, Macmillan, 2016 403s. ISBN 9871-1-5098-1147-2
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 contributions (25%), and e-fora contributions(25%) plus essay of 7-10 pages(double-spaced) (50%). Size 12 Type. 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 2019.
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