Course Title: Classical Poetry

Course Code: ENG-5
Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Contents:

Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400) – Selections from the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales

• The Knight
• The Monk
• The Miller
• The Friar
• The Wife of Bath

William Shakespeare (1564-1616) – Selected Sonnets

• Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
• Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599) – Selected Sonnet

• Amoretti 75: One day I wrote her name upon the sand…

John Donne (1572-1631) – Love Poems & Holy Sonnets

Love Poems:

• The Sun Rising
• The Good Morrow

Holy Sonnets:

• Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay?
• Death be not proud, though some have called thee…

John Milton (1608-1674)

• Paradise Lost – Book I (1667)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

• The Rape of the Lock (1712)

Recommended Books:

• Abbs, P. & Richardson, J. The Forms of Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
• Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing about Literature (7th Edition). New York: Harper and Collins, 1996.
• Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.
• Kamran, Rubina & Syed FarrukhZad (Eds.). A Quintessence of Classical Poetry. National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad.
• Kennedy, X. J., & Gioia, D. An Introduction to Poetry (8th Edition). New York: Harper Collins College Publishers, 1994.