Romantic and Victorian Poetry

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Romantic and Victorian Poetry
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Course Information

• Course Title Romantic and Victorian Poetry
• Course Number 3214 
• Year Third              
• Term  Second
• Course Status Compulsory Course Instructor
  Dr. Suzanne Wazzan
• Credit Hours   2Hours of Instruction per Week   
• Course Symbol   2- 2503325
• Time 5- 6-Sunday
• Room B 12
• Office Hours Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue, 9-11

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Course Aims and Objectives

• 1- The focus will be on the prominent poets of
  the Romantic and Victorian Ages
• 2-The works of the poets are examined in the
  context of the poems as well as their historical,
  literary and aesthetic backgrounds.
• 3-Students will develop a facility in discussing
  literary techniques and devices with an emphasis
  on the power and qualities of effective language.
• 4- Features particular to the two ages that
  define them as different from others are to be a
  source of focus

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Course Contents

• Romantic Age
• Victorian Age

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Romantic Age

• 1-Concise historical background
• 2-Outstanding features
• 3-Philosophy and Terminology that distinguished
  the age from others
• 4-Representative Poets
• A-Early Romantics
• Burns, Scott, Wordsworth
• B-Later Romantics
• Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats

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Victorian Age

• 1-Concise historical background
• 2-Outstanding features
• 3-Philosophy and Terminology that distinguished
  the age from others
• 4-Representative Poets
• Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Robert Browning
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• Methods of Assessment
• Attendance and Participation 5   
• Assignment and Activities 5
• Oral Exam 10
• Mid Term Exam 20
• Final Exam 60
• Total
  100

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• Textbook
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature,
• Volume 2 The Romantic Period through the
• Twentieth Century
• (Norton Anthology of English Literature)
• (Paperback)
• (Editor), M. H. Abrams

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• Electronic References
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanticism
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romantic_poetry
• http//classiclit.about.com/od/britishromantics/a/
  aa_britromantic.htm

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• Syllabus
• Weekly Plan