Course: Contemporary English Poetry

Teacher: Dr. Seyyed Shahabeddin Sadati

 

 

1st Week        Introduction: Significance of the Course

2nd Week       The Twentieth Century English Poetry (pp. 971 – 977)

3rd Week       Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928)

                        "The Convergence of the Twain" (1914, pp. 990 – 991)

                        "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" (1914, 991 – 992)

4rd Week       Wilfred Owen (1893 – 1918)

                        "Dulce Et Decorum Est" (1914, pp. 1037 – 1038)

5th Week        William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)

                        "Sailing to Byzantium" (1927, pp. 1049 – 1050)

6th Week        William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939)

                        "The Second Coming" (1921, p. 1046)

                        "Leda and the Swan" (1928, p.1051)

7th Week        T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

                        "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917, pp. 1086 – 1090)

8th Week        T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

                        "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1917, pp. 1086 – 1090)

9th Week        T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

                        "The Waste Land" (1922 , pp. 1092 – 1105)

10th Week     T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

                        "The Waste Land" (1922 , pp. 1092 – 1105)

11th Week     T. S. Eliot (1888 – 1965)

                        "The Waste Land" (1922 , pp. 1092 – 1105)

12th Week     W. H. Auden (1907 – 1973)

                        "Musée  des Beaux Arts" (1940, p. 1122)

13th Week     Dylan Thomas (1914 – 1953)

                        "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" (1952, pp. 1130 – 1131)

14th Week     Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)

                        "Digging" (1966, pp. 1150 – 1151)

15th Week     Review

16th Week     Review

 

 

Course Book:

Sokhanvar, Jalal. An Abridged Edition of the Norton Anthology of English Literature.