Tematica si bibliografie curs/seminar Literatura engleza anul III, semestrul I

Poezia

8.1 Curs
1. Anglo-Saxon poetry
2. William Langlands Piers Plowman
3. Geoffrey Chaucer
4. Renaissance poetry. Sidney, Spenser
5. The Elizabethan and Shakespearean sonnet
6. The 'Metaphysical ' school. John Donne
7. Milton and Marvel
8. The Augustan Age. Dryden and Pope
9. The dawn of Romanticism. Blake, Burns
10. William Wordsworth
11. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
12. George Gordon Byron
13. Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. John Keats
Bibliografie curs:
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature
The Penguin History of English Literature
The Oxford History of English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to English
Literature
Austin, Frances, The Language of the
Metaphysical Poets (Basingstake, 1992).
Baron, Michael, Language and Relationships in
Wordsworths Writing (London, 1995).
Beer, John, Coleridges Poetic Intelligence
(London, 1977).
Danielson, Dennis, The Cambridge Companion
to Milton (Cambridge, 1989).
Godde, Malcolm, Lapidge, Michael (eds.), The Cambridge
companion to Old English Literature (Cambridge, 1991).
Daiches, David, Thorlby, A. K. (eds.), The
Medieval World (London, 1973).
Lansdown, Richard, Byrons Historical Dramas
(Oxford, 1992).
Medcolf, Stephen (ed.), The Later Middle Ages
(London, 1981).
Muir, Kenneth, Shakespares Sonnets (London,
1979).
Roe, Nicholas (ed.), Keats and History
(Cambridge, 1995).
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of
English Literature
Stevens, John, Medieval Romance (London,
1973).
Watson, J. R., English Poetry of the Romantic
Period 1789-1830 (London, 1992).


Bibliografie seminar:
Beowulf; Deors Lament;The Wanderer; The Seafarer
Piers Plowman
Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales
Edmund Spenser. Sonnets
William Shakespeare. Sonnets
John Donne. The Sun Rises, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, Holy Sonnets
John Milton. Paradise Lost
Alexander Pope. Essay on Man; Essay on Criticism; The Dunciad
William Blake. Songs of Innocence; Songs of Experience
William Wordsworth. The Prelude, Intimations of immortality, I wandered lonely as a
cloud, My heart leaps up
S. T. Coleridge. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Frost at Midnight
George Gordon Byron. Childe Harold, Don Juan
Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ode to Intellectual Beauty, Mont Blanc, Ode to the West Wind,
Song to the Men of England
John Keats. Ode to a Grecian Urn, To Autumn


Tematica si bibliografie Literatura engleza anul III, semestrul II Poezia

8.1 Curs
1. Victorian poetry: Alfred Tennyson
2. The Brownings
3. Gerard Manly Hopkins

8.2 Seminar
1. The ethos of Beowulf pagan and Christian
elements; Anglo-Saxon elegies
2. Theological allegory and didacticism in Piers
Plowman
3. Divine and human order in The Canterbury
Tales
4. Allegory, English pastoral and the
Elizabethan cult
5. Themes of the Shakespearean sonnet
6. The worldly and the divine, imagery and
conceit in John Donnes poetry
7. Paradise Lost the dialectic of Fall and
Redemption
8. Man and society in Popes essays and
satires
9. The dichotomous images and imagery in
Blakes models of human experience
10. The cycles of man, nature and history in
Wordsworths poems
11. Experiential levels of imagination in
Coleridges Rime of the Ancient Mariner
12. The quests of the Byronic hero
13. Shelley: The poets engagement of the
world
14. Keats: Nature, art, love and immortality
4. W. B. Yeats
5. The challenge of modernism: T. S. Eliot
6. The Auden circle
7. Dylan Thomas
8. John Betjemen
9. Postwar poetry. Philip Larkin and the Movement
10. Postmodern experience and angst
11. Ted Hughes
12. Seamus Heany
13. Charles Tomlinson
14. Contemporary British poetry
Bibliografie curs:
The New Pelican Guide to English Literature
The Penguin History of English Literature
The Oxford History of English Literature
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature
Ackroyd, Peter, T.S. Eliot (London, 1984)
Armstrong, Isotel, Robert Browning (London, 1974).
Corcoran, Neil, English Poetry since 1940 (London, 1993)
Macrae, Alasdair, W. B. Yeats: A Literary Life (London, 1995)
Martin, R. B., Tennyson: the Inquiet Heart (Oxford, 1980).
Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature
Sinfield, Alan, Literature, Politics and Culture in Postwar Britain (London, 1989)
Spender, Stephen, The Struggle of the Modern (London, 1963)
Vansittart, Peter, In the Fifties (London, 1995)
Waugh, Patricia, Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Background 1960-1990
(Oxford, 1995)

8.2 Seminar
1. Alfred Tennyson Romanticism and beyond
2. Robert Browning, Elisabeth Barrett Browning. The dramatic monologue
3. G. M. Hopkins
4. The Celtic revival. Yeats Images and themes of Irish identity
5. Eliot: The revaluation of poetic language
6. W. H. Auden - Political engagement, formal and discursive diversity

7. Dylan Thomas tradition and modernity
8. John Betjemen the eternal in the everyday
9. Larkins poetic of the commonplace
10. Hughes: The postmodern mood
11. Seamus Heany the living past
12. Charles Tomlinson
13. Alan Brownjohn
14.
Bibliografie seminar:
Alfred Tennyson: The Lady of Shalott, The Splendour Falls, In Memoriam
Robert Browning: Love among the Ruins, Fra Lippo Lippi, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower
Came, Bad Dreams
Elisabeth Barrett Browning: A Musical Instrument
G. M. Hopkins: Spring, The Winhover, Pied Beauty, Inversnaid, I Wake and Feel the Fell of
Dark
W. B. Yeats: The Two Trees, Adams Curse, The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Leda
and the Swan
T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, The Waste Land, The Hollow Men,
Little Gidding
W. H. Auden: The Watershed, Song, For the Time Being, The Fall of Rome
Dylan Thomas: When, Like a Running Grave, Sonnet, Fern Hill, Poem in October
John Betjemen: In Westminster Abbey
Philip Larkin: Church Going, Lines on a Young Ladys Photograph Album
Ted Hughes: Pibroch, A Childish Prank, The Fox
Seamus Heany:
Charles Tomlinson:
Alan Brownjohn: