AJ16071 Seventeenth Century Poetry, Thought, and Culture

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2017
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
Wed 17:30–19:05 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 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
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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. The course will also examine aspects of historical and political developments as well intimate and family relations in the period covered. Students completing the course will have covered 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.
Syllabus
  • Week 1: Feb. 24th: Introductory Week 2 March 1st: John Donne: The Flea, The Good Morrow, Air and Angels,The Ecstasy; L.Stone:(Ch.1) Week 3 March 8th:John Donne: A Nocturnal Upon St Lucie's Day,A Valediction, Forbidding Mourning,The Relic; (Woman's Inconstancie; The Anniversary) L.Stone: Ch.1&2. Week 4:March 15th: John Donne: Holy Sonnets: 3,4,6,10,15,19; L.Stone: Ch.3. Week 5: March 22nd: Ben Jonson:To Brain-Hardy; To John Donne;To Penshurst; To A Celebration of Charis in Ten pieces; Epistle to Elizabeth, Countess of Rutland. L.Stone:Ch:4/5 Week 6: March 29th: George Herbert:Affliction (1), Paradise, The Collar,The Flower; L.Stone: Ch.7/8. Week 7: April 8th: George Herbert:Death,Redemption, Love(3); L.Stone: Ch.9 Week 8: April 15th:John Milton: L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Lycidas: Stone. Ch.10 Week 9: April 22nd: READING WEEK. NO LESSON. Week 10: April 29th: John Milton:Paradise Lost Book I & IX; L.Stone.Ch.11. Week 11: May 3rd: Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress; An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland; The Picture of Little T.C in a Prospect of Flowers. L. Stone: Ch.12 Week 12: May 10th: DIES ACADEMICUS: NO TEACHING PERMITTED (I HAVE BEEN INFORMED): NO LESSON Week 13:May 17th: Andrew Marvell: The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn,The Garden, The Mower's Song,L.Stone: Ch.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 oral contribution (40%) plus essay of 6-10 pages double-spaced (60%).
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020.
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