MEG 01: BRITISH POETRY
Block I: Orientations for the Study of Poetry & the Medieval Poet Chaucer
Unit 1: From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems (1370 – 80)
Unit 2: A Prelude to the Study of Poetry (Rhetoric & Prosody), Iambic, Trochaic, Anapest, Dactylic,
Amphibrachic, Strong stress metres, quantitative metres, syllabis metres, rhythm, rhyme
schemes, etc
Unit 3: The Age of Chaucer
Unit 4: Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey : Roman de la Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House of
Fame, Parliament of Fowls, Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,
Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales,
Unit 5: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Unit 6: ‘A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ I
Unit 7: ‘A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ II
Block 2: Renaissance Poets: Undertaking a Study of Spenser
Unit 8: The Renaissance Age
Unit9: Edmund Spenser
Unit 10: Spenser’s Poetry: The Amoretti Sonnets, Sonnet 34, Sonnet 67, Sonnet 77
Unit 11: Spenser’s Poetry – II: The Epithalamion, The Prothalamion,
Block 3: The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert & Marvell
Unit 12: British Poetry in the 17th Century (pre-Restoration): Historical Background, Cultural Background,
The Astronomical Revolution, Spenserians (– Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, Wither, William
Browne), the Cavalier Poets (- Robbert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard
Lovelace), the Metaphysical Poets (- Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne), the
Early Augustans (- Edmund Waller, Sir William Davenant, Sir John Denham, Abraham Cowley)
Unit 13: John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual Study of
four Love Poems; The Flea, Twicknam Garden, The Good Morrow, The Extasie
Unit 1 4: John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith: The Canonization, A
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A Nocturnal Upon S Lucies Day, Batter My Heart, Three
Person’d God, Hymn To God The Father
Unit 15: George Herbert: A Study of His Poems: Affliction, The Collar, Easter Wings, Love (3), The Pulley,
Redemption, The Windows, Aaron
Unit 16: Andrew Marvell: A Study of His Poems: To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, An Horation Ode Upon
Cromwell’s Return From Ireland
Block 4: Renaissance Poets: Studying Milton
Unit 17: The Late Renaissance
Unit 18: Milton: The Life
Unit 19: A Survey of Milton’s Lesser Poems & Prose: On the Death of An Infant, At A Vacation Exercise
Unit 20: On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity & Lycidas
Block 5: The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden & Pope
Unit 22: The Age of Dryden
Unit 23: John Dryden
Unit 24: Mac Flecknoe, (Alexander’s Feast Or The Power of Music An Ode In Honour of St Cecilia’s Day)
Unit 25: Pope: A Background to An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Unit 26: Pope: The Study of An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Block 6: The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge
Unit 27: Introduction to Romantic Poetry: Early Romantic Poets (- James Thomson, Mark Akenside,
Joseph Warton, William Collins, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats)
Unit 28: William Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience, The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper,
The Divine Image, The Sick Rose, London, The Tyger,
Unit 29: Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Book I: A Critical Analysis
Unit 30: Coleridge: Kubla Khan & Dejection: An Ode
Block 7: The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats
Unit 31: The Volcanic Voice of Hope: P B Shelley
Unit 32: A Study of The Triumph of Life
Unit 38: Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, I
Unit 34: Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, II
Unit 35: The Romantic Age: A Review
Block 8: The Victorian Poets: Robert Browning, D G & Christina Georgiana Rossetti, Oscar Wilde
Unit 36: The Victorian Age: Selected Studies
Unit 37: Robert Browning: Life & Aspirations: Sordello in Mantua
Unit 38: Robert Browning: Two Early Poems: Porphyria’s Lover, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St
Praxed’s Church
Unit 39: Two Poems from Men and Women: Childe Roland To The Dark To
Block I: Orientations for the Study of Poetry & the Medieval Poet Chaucer
Unit 1: From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems (1370 – 80)
Unit 2: A Prelude to the Study of Poetry (Rhetoric & Prosody), Iambic, Trochaic, Anapest, Dactylic,
Amphibrachic, Strong stress metres, quantitative metres, syllabis metres, rhythm, rhyme
schemes, etc
Unit 3: The Age of Chaucer
Unit 4: Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey : Roman de la Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House of
Fame, Parliament of Fowls, Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, The Nun’s Priest’s Tale,
Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales,
Unit 5: The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Unit 6: ‘A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ I
Unit 7: ‘A Study of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ II
Block 2: Renaissance Poets: Undertaking a Study of Spenser
Unit 8: The Renaissance Age
Unit9: Edmund Spenser
Unit 10: Spenser’s Poetry: The Amoretti Sonnets, Sonnet 34, Sonnet 67, Sonnet 77
Unit 11: Spenser’s Poetry – II: The Epithalamion, The Prothalamion,
Block 3: The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert & Marvell
Unit 12: British Poetry in the 17th Century (pre-Restoration): Historical Background, Cultural Background,
The Astronomical Revolution, Spenserians (– Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher, Wither, William
Browne), the Cavalier Poets (- Robbert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Richard
Lovelace), the Metaphysical Poets (- Henry Vaughan, Richard Crashaw, Thomas Traherne), the
Early Augustans (- Edmund Waller, Sir William Davenant, Sir John Denham, Abraham Cowley)
Unit 13: John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual Study of
four Love Poems; The Flea, Twicknam Garden, The Good Morrow, The Extasie
Unit 1 4: John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith: The Canonization, A
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A Nocturnal Upon S Lucies Day, Batter My Heart, Three
Person’d God, Hymn To God The Father
Unit 15: George Herbert: A Study of His Poems: Affliction, The Collar, Easter Wings, Love (3), The Pulley,
Redemption, The Windows, Aaron
Unit 16: Andrew Marvell: A Study of His Poems: To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, An Horation Ode Upon
Cromwell’s Return From Ireland
Block 4: Renaissance Poets: Studying Milton
Unit 17: The Late Renaissance
Unit 18: Milton: The Life
Unit 19: A Survey of Milton’s Lesser Poems & Prose: On the Death of An Infant, At A Vacation Exercise
Unit 20: On The Morning of Christ’s Nativity & Lycidas
Block 5: The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden & Pope
Unit 22: The Age of Dryden
Unit 23: John Dryden
Unit 24: Mac Flecknoe, (Alexander’s Feast Or The Power of Music An Ode In Honour of St Cecilia’s Day)
Unit 25: Pope: A Background to An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Unit 26: Pope: The Study of An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot
Block 6: The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge
Unit 27: Introduction to Romantic Poetry: Early Romantic Poets (- James Thomson, Mark Akenside,
Joseph Warton, William Collins, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, Robert Burns, Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Byron, Shelley & Keats)
Unit 28: William Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience, The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper,
The Divine Image, The Sick Rose, London, The Tyger,
Unit 29: Wordsworth’s The Prelude, Book I: A Critical Analysis
Unit 30: Coleridge: Kubla Khan & Dejection: An Ode
Block 7: The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats
Unit 31: The Volcanic Voice of Hope: P B Shelley
Unit 32: A Study of The Triumph of Life
Unit 38: Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, I
Unit 34: Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, II
Unit 35: The Romantic Age: A Review
Block 8: The Victorian Poets: Robert Browning, D G & Christina Georgiana Rossetti, Oscar Wilde
Unit 36: The Victorian Age: Selected Studies
Unit 37: Robert Browning: Life & Aspirations: Sordello in Mantua
Unit 38: Robert Browning: Two Early Poems: Porphyria’s Lover, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St
Praxed’s Church
Unit 39: Two Poems from Men and Women: Childe Roland To The Dark To
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