ANU - STUDYAT - Period Study A

Offered By:	School of Humanities
Academic Career:	Graduate Coursework
Course Subject:	English
Offered in:	First Semester, 2010
Unit Value:	12 units
Course Description:	Andrew Marvell This course will study a significant selection of Andrew Marvell's English poems. Andrew Marvell (1621-78) was a poet, pamphleteer and satirist. He was also a politician, patriot and champion of religious toleration for all Protestants. He lived and wrote during one of the most traumatic and turbulent periods in English history. His modern reputation as a great seventeenth-century poet has rested on a few highly canonized poems from the posthumous Miscellaneous Poems of 1681. These poems and their contexts will be given detailed attention in the course, but so will his verse satires and poems on affairs of the Restoration state.
Learning Outcomes:	On satisfying the requirements of this course students will have gained knowledge of the life, works and contexts of Andrew Marvell. They will have enhanced skills of literary-critical analysis.
Workload:	Two hour seminar per week. 5,500 words of written assessment.
Course Classification(s):	AdvancedAdvanced courses are designed for students having reached 'first degree' level of assumed knowledge, which provide a deep understanding of contemporary issues; or 'second degree' and higher levels of knowledge; or for transition to research training programs.
Areas of Interest:	English
Preliminary Reading:	Andrew Marvell: The Complete Poems, ed.Elizabeth Story Donno with an Introduction by Jonathan Bate, Penguin Classics (London: Penguin, 2005)
Majors/Specialisations:	English and English
Academic Contact:	Dr Ian Higgins

Period Study A ENGL8006 - Details