27820 - English Literature II
Compulsory
5.3. Syllabus
(27820) English Literature II
PART ONE: SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
Unit 1. The literature of the early seventeenth century and the Commonwealth. Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry. John Milton and his works. Readings: selection of poems by John Donne, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Robert Herrick, Edmund Waller and Richard Lovelace. Excerpts from John Milton's Paradise Lost.
Unit 2. The Restoration period. Restoration comedy. The flourishing of satiric literature. The devotional prose of John Bunyan. Readings: selection from Dryden's "Absalom and Achitophel", Rochester's satiric poetry and Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.
PART TWO: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE
Unit 3. The literature of the Augustan period. The development of satire. Journals, magazines and the rise of the novel. Readings: selection from Alexander Pope's poetry; excerpts from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels; excerpts from Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Roxana.
Unit 4. Advancing further into the eighteenth century. The Graveyard School and other pre-romantic poets (Oliver Goldsmith, William Cowper, James Macpherson, etc.). The development of the novel. Readings: selection from the poetry of the above-mentioned poets. Excerpts from Samuel Richardson's Pamela, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy.
Lecturas obligatorias:
UNIT 1
• Donne: The Good-Morrow; Song: Go and Catch a Falling Star; The Sun Rising; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning; A Lecture upon the Shadow; Holy Sonnet 1: Thou hast made me...; Holy Sonnet 10: Death be not proud..; Holy Sonnet 14: Batter my heart...; Holy Sonnet 9: If poisonous minerals...
• Herbert: The Altar; Love (3)
• Marvell: The Definition of Love; To His Coy Mistress
• Jonson: Though I Am Young; Ode to Himself (lines 1-20); My Picture Left in Scotland
• Herrick: The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad; To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
• Lovelace: To Althea, from Prison
• Waller: Song: Go, Lovely Rose!
• Milton: When I Consider How My Light Is Spent; Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint; Paradise Lost: from Book IV lines 288-318, 356-392, 449-476; from Book IX lines 776-833, 863-916.
UNIT 2
• Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel (lines 1-36, 140-174)
• Rochester: A Satyr on Charles II (lines 1-21); A Satyr against Mankind (lines 1-30, 127-173)
• Bunyan: From The Pilgrim's Progress: - Christian Sets out for the Celestial City; -Vanity Fair
UNIT 3
• Pope: From The Rape of the Lock: - Canto 1, lines 121-148; - Canto 2, lines 1-34; An Essay on Man (from Epistle 2. Of the Nature and State of Man With Respect to Himself, as an Individual [18 lines, from “Know then thyself” to “riddle of the world!”]
• Defoe
From Robinson Crusoe, the following sections: I go to Sea; I Hear the First Sound of a Man's Voice; I Call Him Friday
From Roxana: the book is not divided into chapters or sections of any sort, so the pages given in what follows are those in the Penguin Classics edition of the novel:
- From p. 37 to p. 40: “I was born [---] be laugh'd at for a Fool” [the novel's opening]
- From p. 170 to p. 171: “I had no inclination to be a Wife again [---] but my Business is History” (pros and cons of being a courtesan and being a wife)
- From p. 184 to p. 188: “One morning, in the middle of our unlawful freedoms [---] as miserable as it was possible that any creature cou'd be” [the Dutch merchant's marriage proposal]
• Swift: From Gulliver’s Travels: - From Part I: Chapters 4 and 5; - From Part II: Chapters 1 and 7; - From Part III: Chapter 2; - From Part IV: Chapter 5
UNIT 4
• Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Cowper: The Task (From Book 1, lines 150-209: A Landscape Described. Rural Sounds; From Book 3, lines 108-133: The Stricken Deer)
• Goldsmith: The Deserted Village (lines 1-82)
• Richardson: From Pamela: Letters I-XV
• Fielding: From Tom Jones: Book I, Chapters 1-4
• Sterne: From Tristram Shandy: Volume I. Chapters 1-6