Historia literatury angielskiej część 1 09-HLB-N-13

The course begins with the analysis of the cultural context of Old English and Middle English. We begin with the Anglo-Saxon heroic and religious poetry, then discuss the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (in the lecture in the context of the works of William Langland and John Gower). During the classes the students read one morality play and selected fragments of mystery plays. The lecture presents the development of English drama from the Middle Ages until the Renaissance. The classes and lectures continue the introduction of Humanizm and the poetry of Edmund Spencer and Phillip Sidney and other Renaissance poets. Then the students read dramatic works of Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Thomass Middleton and John Ford. The winter semester ends with the analysis of metaphysical poetry of Johna Donna, Robert Herrick and others. Summer semester begins with the discussion of Restoration drama and continues with the analysis of the cultural background of Augustan literature and its chief representative Alexander Pope. Then the students read fragments of the Works of the early English novelists: Jonathan Swift, Samuel Richardson, Daniel Dafoe, Henry Fielding and Lawrence?s Sterne. The classes continues with pre-Romantic and Romantic poetry. The semester ends with the realistic novel of the nineteenth century and the poetry of Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning as well as the so-called Pre-Reaphaelites.