Week 1
Beowulf: The description of Grendel
Beowulf: Beowulf's funeral
Themes and moods
in The Wife's Lament
Week 2
The description
of the hunt in Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
The bedroom scene
in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 3
The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue (1-27): the pilgrims'
motivation to make the journey
The Knight and
the Squire – habits, motives and values
The Prioress and
the Monk – their way of life and Christian values
The Prioress and
the Wife of Bath
Week 4
The Wife of Bath:
the character and her tale
The Prioress's Tale
The Reeve's Tale:
the plot and the characters
Week 5
The lover in My Galley and They Flee from Me: sadness and anger
Petrarch's
influence in I Find no Peace
Surrey's Night and The Soote Season as an interpretation of Petrarch
Week 6
Samuel Daniel's Care-Charmer Sleep and Sidney's Come Sleep, O Sleep
Jonson's Celia
and Sydney's Stella
Spenser's To His Love and Happy Ye Leaves: themes of love and poetry
Week 7
Images of Envy, Gluttony
and Avarice in The Faerie Queene
Images of
Idleness, Lechery and Wrath in The Faerie
Queene
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love: pastoral elements
Week 8
The eternity of
love and art in Shakespeare's sonnets 18. and 55.
Fair, kind and true in Shakespeare's sonnet 105.
The good and bad
angel in Shakespeare's sonnet 144.
Week 9
Definitions and
descriptions of love in Shakespeare's sonnets 116. and 147.
Conceits in To His Coy Mistress and The Flea
Canonization: love as religion
Week 10
Love imagery in The Sun Rising
Robert Herrick's To His Ever-loving God and George
Herbert's The Collar: images of God
Milton's Methought I Saw: themes of love and
death
