Classical Poetry: Complete Course
Course Title: Classical Poetry
Level: BS 4th
Course Code: ELL207
Course Description This course focuses on the study of poetry from Geoffrey Chaucer to
Alexander Pope. The term ‘classical’ understandably refers to the lasting
appeal and artistic pleasure of the poetical works selected for this
course. Though belonging to different poetical genres, the poetry of
Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Pope have stood the tests of
time and no further study in this genre of literature is possible without
studying these bench marks of English poetry. The teachers of classical
poetry need to inculcate a spirit of studying the aesthetic concerns of the
times of these poetical masterpieces along with giving a holistic
understanding of different genres of poetry, namely epic, ballad, sonnet,
lyric, and elegy etc. Offering a study of the congenial humor and gentle
satire of Chaucer’s Prologue to Canterbury Tales (c. 1389), the
puritanical strain of Milton’s epic Paradise Lost (1667), the fi…
