《英语诗歌选读》课程教学大纲.doc

《英语诗歌选读》课程教学大纲 课程编号 学分：2 学时：34（其中实践学时：0） 授课学期：6 学期 一、课程的性质、地位、作用及与其他课程的联系 本课程是英语专业本科高年级选修课之一，它以“英国文学史及选读”和“美国文学史及选读”为先修课程。想对英语诗歌进行更深入的同学可以选修“英语诗歌选读”。 以英美诗歌发展史为线索，使学生掌握英国和美国诗歌的主要品种及其源流，重要诗歌流派及其理论，总体风格和影响，重要诗人及其作品的风格与成就；使学生了解英国诗歌的民族特性和美国诗歌的民族特性。通过学习诗歌体裁、格律、主题、意象、修辞等方面的基础知识，培养学生欣赏英美诗歌能力，增加语言的输入量，从而增加实际运用语言的能力，为今后进一步的语言学习和文学研究奠定基础。使学生具有独立研究简单题目的能力。 二、课程的教学内容与要求 Part One: British Verse Chapter 1 The Canterbury Tales and 16th-Century Poetry 【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems 【教学内容】1. Geoffrey Chaucer (1343---1400) 2. William Shakespeare (1564--- 1616) 【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the style and image of the poems Chapter 2 The Civil War and Early 17th-Century Poetry 【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems 【教学内容】John Donne (1572--1631) 【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poem: Forbidding Mourning Chapter 3 Neoclassicism and 18th-Century Poetry 【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems 【教学内容】Thomas Gray (1716--1771) 【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poem: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Chapter 4 Romanticism and Early 19th-Century Poetry 【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems 【教学内容】William Blake (1757--1827) William Wordsworth (1770-- 1850) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822) 【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the poems during Romanticism Chapter 5 Social Progress and Late 19th-Century Poetry 【教学目标】1. General understanding of writers 2. Appreciation of the tone and the rhyme 3. Appreciation of the poems 【教学内容】Robert Browning (1812-- 1889) Matthew Arnold (1822--1888) Alfred Tennyson (1809---1892) Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844---1889) 【教学重点与难点】Appreciation of the p