English Baroque Poetry (Brlek)

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Course title: English Baroque Poetry
Instructor: Assoc. Prof. Tomislav Brlek
ECTS credits: 6
Status: elective
Semester: 1st and 3rd semester
Enrollment requirements: enrollment in the 1st or 3rd semester of the graduate programme of the English Department
Course description: The mail goal of the course is to relocate English literature of the early seventeenth century from renaissance in the narrower sense of the term into post-renaissance movement known in most European countries as baroque. Teaching poetics and rhetoric of baroque poetry is the focus of this literary and historical procedure.

  1. Introduction: baroque as a literary period: renaissance principle of decorum and baroque violation of decorum
  2. Distinctive characteristics in (a) style (paralogic, antithesis, emblem, word play, concetto, ingenuity, linguistic and intellectual combinatorics), (b) genre (generic preferences, characteristic mixture of genres, new combinations of genres) and (c) point of view (toward poetry, poets, world; actuality, dramaticality, linguistic and epistemological scepticism)
  3. Expressions and terms: mannerism baroque, metaphysical poetry
  4. Concetto in English baroque poetry
  5. Elizabethan world picture as a source of baroque imagery
  6. Petrarchan topoi and their baroque transformations
  7. John Donne: Songs and Sonets (“The Canonization”, “The Sun Rising”, “The Good Morrow”, “The Flea” i “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”).
  8. John Donne: Holy Sonnets (“Batter My heart, three—person’d God”).
  9. George Herbert: The Temple (“Easter Wings”, “Jordan (I)”, “Jordan (II)”, “The Pulley”, “The Forerunners” and “Virtue”).
  10. Henry Vaughan: Silex Scintillans (“The Retreate” and “Regeneration”).
  11. Richard Crashaw: Carmen Deo Nostro (“The Weeper”).
  12. Andrew Marvell: Collected Poems (“To His Coy Mistress” and “The Garden”).
  13. Thomas Traherne: Commentaries of Heaven (“Shadows in the Water”).
  14. Ben Jonson: Underwood (“My Picture Left in Scotland”)
  15. Written exam

OBLIGATORY LITERATURE:

  1. Gardner, Helen (ur), The Metaphysical Poets, Harmondsworth [etc.]: Penguin Books, 1988.
  2. Ford, Boris (ur), The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, vol. 3: From Donne to Marvel, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1988.
  3. Sidney, Philip, An Apology for Poetry, u: D. J. Enright & Ernst de Chickero (ur), English Critical Texts, London: Oxford UP, 1962; 12-17.
  4. Johnson, Samuel, Lives of the English Poets, 1. tom, London: Oxford UP, 1961; 3-49.
  5. Eliot, T. S, “The Metaphysical Poets”, u: D. J. Enright & Ernst de Chickero (ur), English Critical Texts, London: Oxford UP, London, 1962, 302-311.

ADDITIONAL LITERATURE:

  1. Abrams, M. H (ur), The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 1. tom, 6. izdanje, New York i London: W W. Norton, 1993.
  2. Curtius, Ernst Robert, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages, Princeton: Princeton UP, 1973; 273–301.
  3. Grierson, Herbert J. C, Cross Currents in English Literature of the Seventeenth Century, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1966.
  4. Hollander, John, i Frank Kermode (ur). The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1: The Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century, New York; London & Toronto: Oxford UP, 1973; 2337-2316.
  5. Segel, Harold B. The Baroque Poem: A Comparative Survey, New York: Dutton Paperback, 1974; 12-142.
  6. Tillyard, E. M. Elizabethan World Picture, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1972.
  7. Warnke, Frank J, Versions of Baroque: Terms and Concepts, New Haven & London: Yale UP, 1975; 1-20.