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    The document outlines the course contents and reading list for British Literature. It provides an overview of major historical periods and authors from Old English to modern times. Some highlights include Beowulf representing Old English poetry, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for the Middle Ages, Shakespeare's sonnets and Hamlet for the Renaissance, Milton's Paradise Lost in the 17th century, the rise of the novel with Defoe and Swift in the 18th century, Romantic poets like Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge, Victorian literature including Tennyson, and modernism represented by writers like Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. It concludes with 20th century works reflecting social realities and concludes with a bibliography of suggested texts.

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    History of British Literature

    The course contents and reading list:

    Old English literature:


    Anglo-Saxon poetry as portrayal of the system of values and beliefs
    - Beowulf – OE heroic poem
    - The Dream of the Rood – pagan and Christian traits

    Middle English literature:


    popular genres - fabliau, lyric, ballad, allegory
    - Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales – The General Prologue, The Miller’s Tale
    - Medieval romance – Sir Gawain and the Green Knight – ideals of courtly love
    - The beginnings of drama in the Middle Ages

    Renaissance literature:
    Origins and development of drama (miracle plays, morality plays, interludes)
    The rise of English sonnet – (Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Philip Sydney,
    Edmund Spencer)
    - William Shakespeare - sonnets - themes, images of love
    - Hamlet – tragedy, universal appeal
    Seventeenth-century literature:
    Metaphysical poetry; features and common themes, representatives – John Donne,
    George Herbert, Andrew Marvell
    - John Milton, Paradise Lost – an epic poem
    Cavalier poets - Robert Herrick

    The Augustan Age literature:


    - Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
    development of journalism, and the appearance of a novel – Daniel Defoe
    - Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels

    Pre-Romanticism and Romanticism:


    Graveyard school of poetry – Thomas Grey, William Collins, Oliver Goldsmith
    - William Blake – images of Man, symbolism, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
    - William Wordsworth – vision of nature, Preface to Lyrical Ballads
    - Samuel Taylor Coleridge – symbolism, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    - * George Gordon, Lord Byron
    - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind
    - John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn
    Victorian literature:
    Novel as a picture of the society
    Poetry: e.g. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott

    Modernism:
    Prose: D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf – representatives of modernistic
    prose
    Poetry: e.g. T. S. Elliot, William Butler Yeats

    Twentieth-century literature:
    Prose and politics: George Orwell, The Animal Farm, short stories
    Poetry: e.g. Wystan Hugh Auden, Dylan Thomas
    Literature reflecting reality and age (youth culture, class, ethnicity)

    Suggested Bibliography:
    Norton’s Anthology of British Literature
    The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, ed. B. Ford
    R. Barnard, A Short History of English Literature
    A. Burgess, English Literature
    D. Daiches, A Critical History of English Literature
    P. Mroczkowski, Historia literatury angielskiej
    P. Rogers, The Oxford Illustrated History of British Literature
    A. Zgorzelski, Lectures on British Literature

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