Poesía Inglesa (siglos XVI-XX)(2009)

Programa

Theoretical

1. Introduction: English poetry and the canon of English Studies
2. Late Sixteenth-Century Poetry, 1570-1603: The Court, Chivalry and the Sonnet
3. Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry, 1603-1660: Religion, Politics and the Body
4. Late Seventeenth-Century Poetry, 1660-1702: Restoration and Satire
5. Eighteenth-Century Poetry, 1702-1798: Gardens, Illness and Satire
6. Romantic Poetry, 1798-1830: Romanticism, Nature and the Self
7. Victorian Poetry, 1830-1890: Elegy, Science, Art, Romance and Domesticity
8. Poetry in Modernism, 1890-1940: War and Waste Lands
9. Poetry after Modernism, since 1940: Discontinuities and Displacements
 

Practical
 

1. Flexing your muscles, or ways into a poem
2. Epics and Pastorals: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
3. Wit and God: John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell
4. Representing Hell: John Milton, Paradise Lost
5. Literary Satire: John Dryden, MacFlecknoe
6. Mock-Heroic and the Spleen: Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
7. Conversational Poems: William Cowper and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
8. Recollections in Tranquillity: William Wordsworth, The Prelude
9. Heroes and Villains: Lord Byron, Don Juan
10. A Joy Forever: John Keats, Odes
11. The Impossibility of the Epic: Alfred Tennyson and Elizabeth Barret
12. Dialogue and Sisterhood: Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti
13. The Failure of Revolution: W. B. Yeats, Easter 1916
14. The Impossibility of the Pastoral: T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land
15. Splits: W. H. Auden and Thomas Hardy