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:

25/02 Introduction to the Course

03/03 Beowulf

10/3 The Canterbury Tales (“General Prologue”, “Pardoner’s Tale”)

17/03 The Sonnet (Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare)

24/03 Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (Marlowe, Raleigh, Donne)

31/03 A Midsummer Night’s Dream

07/04 Hamlet

14/04 Religious Literature: “The Dream of the Rood”, Everyman

21/04 Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim’s Progress (extract)

28/04 Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (extract)

05/05 18^th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract)

12/05 Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems)