British Poetry from the Renaissance to the Restoration

Course Code:

ELIT 314

Semester:

Fall

Course Type:

Area Elective

P:

3

Lab:

0

Laboratuvar Saati:

0

Credits:

3

ECTS:

5

Course Language:

English

Courses given by:

Mehmet Oğuz Cebeci

Nina Cemiloğlu

Course Objectives:

To give an overview of British poetry from 1509-1660 and its historical and cultural contexts

Course Content:

16^th-17^th century poetry by selected authors

Course Methodology:

1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 9: Simulation, 12: Case Study

Course Evaluation Methods:

A: Testing B: Presentation C: Homework

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Course Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes	Programme Learning Outcomes	Teaching Methods	Assessment Methods
1) Knowledge of and ability to make close readings of poetry from 1509-1660	1,2,4,7,8	1.3.12	A
2) Knowledge of the intellectual, historical and religious context of the poems	1,2,4,7,8	1.2.3	A
3) Ability to write essays and commentaries on the poetry of the period	2,4,5,6,8,10	1.2.3	A

Course Flow

Week	Topics	Study Materials
1	Historical overview of the period.
2	The Petrarchan tradition. Poetry of the court of Henry VIII and the Petrarchan tradition imported to England: Wyatt and Surrey; Tottel’s Miscellanie
3	Poetry of the Elizabethan court: Sir Walter Raleigh: Ocean’s Love to Cynthia and selected lyrics; Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophill and Stella
4	Shakespeare’s sonnets
5	Shakespeare, ‘Venus and Adonis’
6	Spenser’s ‘Amoretti’ and short extracts from “The Faerie Queene”
7	Midterm
8	Jonson and Drayton
9	Donne’s, Songs and Sonnets
10	Seventeenth-century religious poetry: Donne, Crashaw, George Herbert, Marvell
11	Milton, ‘Lycidas’ and selected sonnets
12	Cavalier and Royalist poetry: Lovelace, Suckling, Herrick
13	Andrew Marvell: love poetry and political poetry
14	Katherine Philips

Recommended Sources

Textbook	Sixteenth-century Poetry, ed. Emrys Jones, OUP; Seventeenth Century Poetry The Annotated Anthology, ed. Robert Cummings, Blackwell Publishers
Additional Resources	Additional poems downloaded from the internet etc

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Assessment

IN-TERM STUDIES	NUMBER	PERCENTAGE

Mid-terms	1	50
Final	1	50

Total		100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL GRADE		50
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL GRADE		50
Total		100

COURSE CATEGORY

Expertise/Field Courses

Course’s Contribution to Program

No	Programme Learning Outcomes	Contribution
No	Programme Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	The ability to apply knowledge of English and world literature and social sciences to topics including culture, society, ethics, politics etc.					x
2	The ability to review, analyse and apply the relevant literature.					x
3	The ability to carry out interdisciplinary reading and analysis.					x
4	The ability to utilise the basic concepts and issues of literary theories in developing life strategies					x
5	Awareness of professional ethics and responsibility		x
6	Effective communication skills.					x
7	A sufficiently broad education to understand the global and social impact of literary movements.					x
8	An awareness of the importance of lifelong learning and the ability to put it into practice.					x
9	A knowledge of issues in contemporary literature and of the cultural issues of the period.					x
10	The ability to use sources and modern tools in order to carry out research in the areas of literature and aesthetics.					x

ECTS

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 15x Total course hours)	15	3	45
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	15	3	45
Mid-terms	1	10	10
Homework	1	10	10
Final examination	1	10	10
Total Work Load			120
Total Work Load / 25 (h)			4.8
ECTS Credit of the Course			5

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