Lectures:

1. Old and Middle English Poetry and Prose

2. Alliterative Revival, Geoffrey Chaucer

3. Renaissance Period – Background, Early and Mid- Renaissance, Elizabethan Period

4. Renaissance love poetry

5. English Renaissance Drama, William Shakespeare

6. Late Renaissance – Ben Jonson, John Donne

7. Civil War – John Milton and Others

8. Restoration Period – Drama and Prose

9. Eighteenth Century – Introduction and Poetry

10. The Rise of the Novel

11. The Development of the Novel, Late Classicism

12. Pre-Romantic Poetry

Seminars:

1. Introduction

2. Beowulf

3. The Canterbury Tales (Prologue, Pardoner’s Tale)

4. The Sonnet (Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare)

5. Pastoral and Metaphysical Poetry (Marlowe, Ralegh, Donne)

6. A Midsummer Night’s Dream

7. Hamlet

8. Religious Literature: The Dream of the Rood, Everyman, Paradise Lost (extract), Pilgrim’s Progress (extract)

9. Jonathan Swift: A Modest Proposal, Gulliver’s Travels (extract)

10. 18th Century Novel: Robinson Crusoe (extract), Tristram Shandy (extract)

11. Pre-Romantic Poetry: William Blake and Robert Burns (selected poems)