Roger Kuin - English 3150
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General Information

• Class 8:30 till 11:30
• journal groups

Course Director: Roger KUIN
McLaughlin 227
736-5128
rkuin@yorku.ca
OFFICE HOURS: by e-mail and/or appointment

Course Description:
This course studies the work of five writers who were both poets and critics: Sir Philip Sidney, John Dryden, William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, and T.S. Eliot. In each case, we read one or more critical texts and a selection of poetic work (in Dryden's case, his play All For Love. Comparing theory and practice illuminates literary ideas in several periods, and the development between them.

NOTE: For 2004-2005, this course will include an experiment in online learning. With the help of Dr. Jason Nolan, University of Toronto, as our learning technologies advisor we will be using course web-based journaling software called Blogger (See http://blogger.com). The class will be divided into smaller sub-groups of about five students. Each student will have the weekly assignment of writing 300 words in his/her online journal, and of reading the journals of the other students in the same sub-group, as well as the Course Director's webpage (http://rogerkuin.net). In addition to the online journal (the general term for them is a Blog), students will be expected to write one test around Christmas, and one test at the year's end. There will usually be weekly classroom contact, but not always: blogging and the sharing of journals will facilitate dialogue, and hopefully a sense of community, when we are not meeting face to face.Students who have access to fairly up-to-date computer equipment and an interest in this kind of experience as well as in literature are those who will be happiest in this course. They will be expected to participate actively in the work, in terms of both reading course material and writing/communicating their experience among themselves. NOTE: Students who register in this course are asked as soon as possible after their registration to contact the course director by e-mail: rkuin@yorku.ca

Course Requirements:
The main written work of the year is a Blog or Weblog, basically a journal of reading and thoughts about the course material. Students will be expected to write 300+ words per week in their Blog, and to read the Blogs of the course director and of the others in their subgroup. Grading will be as follows: Journal I (September to Mid-October): 15%; Journal II (mid-October till end of Fall Term): 15%; Test I (late November): 20%; Journal III (January till Reading Week): 15%; Journal IV (RW till end of Winter Term): 15%; Test II (late March): 20%. Journal (Blog) marks will be based on assiduity, punctuality, co-operation, engagement with reading materials, and demonstrated commitment.

Reading List:
Sir Philip Sidney, TBD; John Dryden, Selected Writings of John Dryden, ed. Earl Miner (Modern Library); All For Love, ed. Trevor Griffiths (Nick Hern); William Wordsworth, The Major Works, ed. Stephen Gill (Oxford World's Classics); Matthew Arnold, York Course Kit; T.S. Eliot, Selected Prose of T.S. Eliot, ed. Kermode (Faber); Collected Poems 1909-1962 (Faber); The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (Faber).

Recommended Text:
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land, facsimile edition (Faber).

NB: All books (except the Arnold course kit, which will be available from the York Bookstore) ordered through, and available ONLY from, the Bob Miller Book Room, 180 Bloor St West (Lower Concourse), Toronto ON M5S 2V6, tel. 416-922-3557, e-mail bmbr@globalserve.net; contact: CAROL VINE. Book title changes suggested by Bob Miller Book Room are considered to be authorative.

Agenda

• 14/9 Intro - Sidney GET YOUR BOOKS!
• 21/9 Sidney Defence of Poesy
• 28/9 Sidney Astrophil and Stella
• 5/10 Sidney
• 12/10 Sidney
• 19/10 From Renaissance to Restoration: overview
• 26/10 Dryden Essay of Dramatic Poesy
• 2/11 Dryden All For Love
• 9/11 Dryden All For Love
• 16/11 Dryden All For Love
• 23/11 Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads
• 30/11 Wordsworth Tintern Abbey et al.
• 4/1 Wordsworth various poems
• 11/1 Wordsworth Ode: Intimitations of Immortality
• 18/1 Wordsworth
• 25/1 Arnold The Study of Poetry
• 1/2 Arnold The Function of Criticism
• 8/2 Arnold various poems
• 15/2 READING WEEK
• 22/2 Arnold
• 1/3 Eliot Prufrock and essays
• 8/3 Eliot The Waste Land
• 15/3 Eliot
• 22/3 Eliot Four Quartets
• 29/4 Eliot
• 5/4 Finale