Istanbul Kültür University ECTS Guide 2008/2009 Department of ...

Students are expected to attend each session having read in
advance the texts under discussion.
Assignments -
Examination
Midterm written examination and final written examination
Assessment • Midterm 40 %
• Final 60 %
Reading List
• JOHN DONNE: 1. “Song:'Go and catch a falling
star'”; 2. The Good Morrow”; 3. The Sun Rising”;
4.“The Extasie”; 5. “A Valediction: forbidding
mourning”; 6.“The Canonization”; 7. “The
Funeral”; 8. “The Relic”; 9.“Death, be not proud”
• BEN JONSON: Epigrams: 1.“To the Reader”; 2.“To
My Book”; 3.“On Something That Walks
Somewhere”; 4.”On My First Daughter”; 5. “On My
First Son” ; 6. “Inviting a Friend to Supper”; The
Forest : 7. “Song to Celia. Drink to me only with
thine eyes”; Underwood: 8. “Hymn to Diana”
“Queen and Huntress”; 9.“Song: Still to be neat, still
to be drest”.
• GEORGE HERBERT: The Temple: 1.“The Altar”;
2.“The Collar”; 3. “Easter Wings”
• FRANCIS BACON: Essays:“Essay 4 Of Revenge”;
2. “Essay 10 Of Love”; 3.“Essay 31 Of Suspicion”;
4. “Essay 36 Of Ambition ; 5. “Essay 43 Of
Beauty”. (handout)
• JOHN WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi
• HELEN GARDNER, “Introduction”, The
Metaphysical Poets, Penguin, (1957), 1985;
• T.S. ELIOT, “The Metaphysical Poets”, in The
Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.
2, pp. 2401- 2408, (7 th ed. 2000).
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.1,
( 7 th ed. 2000) to be used for all the poems and the
play. A handout for the Bacon essays.
• Secondary material, mainly on critical approaches,
will be assigned or provided by the lecturer.