Universität Augsburg
Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik
Wintersemester 2006/07
Timo Müller, M.A.
PS “The Sonnet”
Syllabus
1
Oct 19
Introductory Session
2
Oct 26
Early English
F. Petrarca, “S’amor non è, che dunque è quell ch’io sento?”
T. Wyatt, “The longe love, that in my thought doeth harbar”
T. Wyatt, “My galy chargèd with forgetfulness”
H. Howard, Earl of Surrey, “The soote season, that bud and blome furth bringes”
H. Howard, Earl of Surrey, “Love that liveth and reigneth in my thought”
3
Nov 2
English Renaissance I
E. Spenser, “Happy ye leaves when as those lilly hands” (1)
E. Spenser, “Penelope for her Ulisses’ sake” (23)
E. Spenser, “My love is lyke to yse, and I to fyre” (30)
E. Spenser, “Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace” (67)
E. Spenser, “Most glorious Lord of lyfe that on this day” (68)
E. Spenser, “One day I wrote her name upon the strand” (75)
4
Nov 9
English Renaissance II
P. Sidney, “Loving in truth, and faine in verse my love to show” (1)
P. Sidney “It is most true that eyes are form’d to serve” (5)
P. Sidney, “Come sleepe, O sleepe, the certaine knot of peace” (37)
P. Sidney, “I on my horse, and Love on me doth trie” (49)
P. Sidney, “O Grammer rules, O now your vertues show” (63)
P. Sidney , “Who will in fairest book of Nature know” (71)
P. Sidney, “Stella, thinke not that I by verse seeke fame” (90)
5
Nov 16
English Renaissance III
W. Shakespeare, “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” (18)
W. Shakespeare, “Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion’s paws” (19)
W. Shakespeare, “A woman’s face, with Nature’s own hand painted” (20)
W. Shakespeare, “Not marble nor the gilded monuments” (55)
W. Shakespeare, “Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore” (60)
W. Shakespeare, “Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea” (65)
W. Shakespeare, “No longer mourn for me when I am dead” (71)
6
Nov 23
English Renaissance IV
W. Shakespeare, “Let not my love be called idolatry” (105)
W. Shakespeare, “When in the chronicle of wasted time” (106)
W. Shakespeare, “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (116)
W. Shakespeare, “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame” (129)
W. Shakespeare, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (130)
W. Shakespeare, “Two loves I have, of comfort and despair” (144)
W. Shakespeare, “My love is as a fever, longing still” (147)
7
Nov 30
Seventeenth Century
J. Donne, “Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay” (1)
J. Donne, “At the round earth’s imagined corners, blow” (7)
J. Donne, “Batter my heart, three-personed God; for, you” (14)
G. Herbert, “Prayer”
J. Milton, “On the Late Massacre in Piemont”
J. Milton, “When I consider how my light is spent”
J. Milton, “Methought I saw my late espousèd Saint”
8
Dec 7
English Romanticism I
W. Blake, “To the Evening Star”
R. Burns, “A Sonnet upon Sonnets”
W. Wordsworth, “Nuns fret not at their convent’s narrow room”
W. Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept 3, 1802”
W. Wordsworth, “The world is too much with us; late and soon”
W. Wordsworth, “It is a beauteous evening, calm and free”
W. Wordsworth, “London, 1802”
S. T. Coleridge, “To Nature”
9
Dec 14
English Romanticism II
R. Southey, “High in the air exposed the slave is hung”
G. Gordon, Lord Byron, “On Chillon”
G. Gordon, Lord Byron, “Rousseau—Voltaire—our Gibbon—and de Staël”
P. B. Shelley, “England in 1819”
J. Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”
J. Keats, “To My Brothers”
J. Keats, “On the Grasshopper and Cricket”
J. Keats, “If by dull rhymes our English must be chain’d”
10
Dec 21
American Renaissance
H. W. Longfellow, “Chaucer”
H. W. Longfellow, “The Cross of Snow”
E. A. Poe, “To Science”
J. R. Lowell, “The Street”
11
Jan 11
Modernism I
R. Frost, “Mowing”
R. Frost, “Meeting and Passing”
R. Frost, “Range-Finding”
R. Frost, “Acquainted With the Night”
R. Frost, “Design”
R. Frost, “The Silken Tent”
12
Jan 18
Modernism II
E. St. Vincent Millay, “Thou art not lovelier than lilacs,—no”
E. St. Vincent Millay, “If I should learn, in some quite casual way”
E. St. Vincent Millay, “Pity me not because the light of day”
E. St. Vincent Millay, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
e.e. cummings, “when thou hast taken thy last applause,and when”
e.e. cummings, “it is funny,you will be dead some day.”
e.e. cummings, “i like my body when it is with your”
e.e. cummings, “next to of course god America i”
13
Jan 25
African American
J. W. Johnson, “Mother Night”
P. L. Dunbar, “Douglass”
C. McKay, “If We Must Die”
C. McKay. “America”
J. Toomer, “November Cotton Flower”
C. Cullen, “Yet Do I Marvel”
14
Feb 1
Contemporary
R. Lowell, “History”
J. Merrill, “Marsvas”
J. Merrill, “Last Words”
J. Ashbery, “Rain Moving In”
A. Rich, “Look: this is January the worst onslaught”
L. Glück, “Snowdrops”
R. Dove, “Sonnet in Primary Colors”
15
Feb 8
Concluding Session
All texts will be taken from The Penguin Book of Sonnets, ed. Phillis Levin (2001).
Requirements for a Sitzschein:
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regular attendance (no more than two absences);
fulfillment of reading assignments;
participation in class.
Additional requirements for a Proseminarschein:
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a 15-20 min. presentation;
a 2-3 pp. essay comparing any two or three of the poems discussed so far, due on January 9;
a 10-12 pp. final paper following the guidelines of the ‘Amerikanistik Style Sheet,’ due on
April 16, 2007 at the latest.
Office Hours: Tue 15.30-16.30 and by appointment, Room 4051
Contact: timo.mueller@phil.uni-augsburg.de, (0821) 598 5728
Course Homepage: www.philhist.uni-augsburg.de/lehrstuehle/anglistik/amerikanistik/
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