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Course Code etc
Academic Year 2023
College Graduate School of Arts
Course Code JB149
Theme・Subtitle P. B. Shelley’s Shorter Poems
Class Format Face to face (all classes are face-to-face)
Class Format (Supplementary Items)
Campus
Campus Ikebukuro
Semester Spring Semester
DayPeriod・Room Tue.3・6201
Credit 2
Course Number EAL6313
Language Others
Class Registration Method Course Code Registration
Grade (Year) Required 配当年次は開講学部のR Guideに掲載している科目表で確認してください。
prerequisite regulations
Acceptance of Other Colleges
course cancellation
Online Classes Subject to 60-Credit Upper Limit
Relationship with Degree Policy
Notes 後期課程用科目コード:PB301
Text Code JB149

【Course Objectives】

This course aims to read some of the shorter important poems by a radical poet of the second generation of English Romantics, Percy Bysshe Shelley, who earnestly longed for freedom and equality throughout his short life, and investigate his life, art and worldview.

【Course Contents】

An English Romantic poet P. B. Shelley (1792-1822) was forced to depart as if exiled from his mother country and lead a wandering life in Italy after 1818, but he continued to show an avid desire to write in spite of the almost over-all neglect of his writings by the English readership until his premature death in the foreign country due to a shipwreck immediately before the age of thirty. By carefully reading some of the major poems by the poet, who, penetrated with the ‘wild’ spirit like the west wind described by himself, never failed to advocate freedom and equality, we will explore the style of expression and thought of his own, and consider the significance of the Romantic age, to which he belonged.
In this semester, we will read his relatively short poems (less than about 100 lines) nearly in the chronological order of composition, referring to the two English and American versions of his collected poems by Longman and Johns Hopkins UP, both of which are in progress of publication and so not completed yet in 2023, as well as to the newest Japanese translation of his selected poems by Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey for the Iwanami bilingual edition. In each class we will read about 50-100 lines of poetry according to the lesson plan shown below. This plan could be slightly revised depending on students’ wishes. Details will be provided in the course syllabus given on the first day of class.

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