İDE311

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Compulsory

English

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Undergraduate

This course introduces students to Romantic poetry, both as a very important period in English literature and in the development of poetry in general. It enables students to understand both the art of poetry and the important developments in this field. By examining this period in which literary developments were closely linked to very important social, economic and political developments such as the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, the course enables students to better understand the link between literature and social developments.

The Norton Anthology of English Literature

This course aims to provide an in-depth analysis of English poetry of the Romantic Age. Students will be introduced to the social will learn about the political, historical, philosophical and cultural characteristics of poetry, its genres and traditions. They will read and analyze prominent poems and learn about major poets.

1. Students should be familiar with both Romanticism and the Romantic Poetry movement that emerged in England. become owners
2. Students will learn the characteristics of English Romantic poetry, the innovations it brought to the art of poetry and the political and have knowledge about their connections with social developments
3. Students will be able to identify examples and important poets of English Romantic poetry
4. Students will be able to analyze and interpret a variety of Romantic poems

Week 1: The Spirit of the Age: major historical, social and intellectual developments
Week 2: William Blake
Week 3: William Wordsworth
Week 4: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Week 5: Lord Byron
Week 6: Percy Bysshe Shelley
Week 7: John Keats
Week 8: Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Mary Shelley
Week 9: William Hazlitt, Thomas Chatterton
Week 10: Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott
Week 11: German Romantics
Week 12: General Review

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Homework 30 %