UNIVERSITY OF GUJRAT

Course outline

Course Code: ENG-311 Course Title: Classical Poetry

Instructor: Rana Ahmad Shaheed Semester: Fall-2018
Email: ahmad.shaheed@uog.edu.pk

Course Description

 The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

 The Paradise Lost: Book 1
 Love and Divine Poem of John Donne
 The Rape of the Lock

Course Type: Compulsory

(Compulsory/Core/Elective)

Pre-requisites Basic knowledge of English literature especially English poetry

Goals  To give the basic understanding of English poetry, its

themes, diction and figures of speech in order to enable the
students to develop a habit of critical thinking

Text Books Mentioned above in the Course Description

Lectures 32 sessions of 90 minutes each

Attendance Policy A minimum of 70% attendance is required for a student to be

eligible to take the final examination.
The students with less than 70% of the attendance in a course shall be
given the grade SA (Short Attendance) in such a course and shall not be
allowed to take its End Term Exams and will have to reappear in the
course to get the required attendance to be eligible to sit in the exam
when the course is offered the next time.
Grading The course will be evaluated on the basis of the following percentage:
 Mid Term 25%
 Sessional 25%
o Presentations 10%
o Assignment 10%
o Quiz 05%
 Final term 50%
 Session Schedule

Sessions Topic Readings

1&2 Introduction to Geoffrey Chaucer and The
Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

3&4 Reading and Discussion on The Knight, The

Squire, The Prioress, The Monk, The Friar and
The Merchant

5&6 Reading and Discussion on The Clerk, The Man

of Law, The Physician, The Wife of Bath

7&8 The Parson, The Summoner, The Pardoner

9 & 10 Introduction to John Donne and Metaphysical

Poetry

11 & 12 Reading and Discussion on The Good Morrow,

Song_ Goe and Catche a Falling Star, The Sunne
Rising

13 & 14 Reading and Discussion on A Valediction – Of

Weeping, A Valediction – Forbidding Mourning,
Lovers Infiniteness, The Message

15 & 16 Reading and Discussion on Death Be Not Proud,

Batter My Heart, This is My Play’s Last Scene

17 & 18 Mid term Examination

19 & 20
Reading and Discussion on Paradise Lost Book
1: Lines 1-26 84-127

21 & 22 Reading and Discussion on Paradise Lost: Lines

157-191

23 & 24 Reading and Discussion on The Rape of the

Lock: First Canto
25 & 26 Reading and Discussion on The Rape of the
Lock: Second Canto
27 & 28 Reading and Discussion on The Rape of the
Lock: Fifth Canto

29 & 30 Presentations

31 & 32 Presentations