Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Academic Year 2025Year School/Graduate School Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities Program
Lecture Code WMBP9601 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 英語圏詩文学作品演習B
Subject Name
(Katakana)
エイゴケンシブンガクサクヒンエンシュウB
Subject Name in
English
Seminar on Poetry in English B
Instructor CHEYNE PETER ROBERT
Instructor
(Katakana)
チェイニー ピーター ロバート
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year,  Second Semester,  3Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (3T) Weds5-8:Faculty Office
Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
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Face-to-face
Face-to-face 
Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 4 Language of Instruction E : English
Course Level 6 : Graduate Advanced
Course Area(Area) 23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area(Discipline) 05 : Literature
Eligible Students
Keywords  
Special Subject for Teacher Education   Special Subject  
Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)
 
Class Objectives
/Class Outline
The purpose of this course is to study British poetry of the Romantic period.
 
Class Schedule lesson1
Overview of Romanticism
lesson2
William Blake and ‘The Tyger’ (1794)
lesson3
Behmenism, Blake, and ‘The Tyger’
lesson4
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ‘Frost at Midnight’ (1798)
lesson5
Symbolism and recursiveness in ‘Frost at Midnight’
lesson6
Coleridge’s ‘Order of the Mental Powers’ (c.1824)
lesson7
Interpreting Wordsworth’s ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’ (1800)
lesson8
William Wordsworth, ‘My Heart Leaps Up’ ([1802] 1807), and the Immortality Ode ([1804] 1807)
lesson9
Youth versus maturity in Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode
lesson10
Percy Bysshe Shelley and ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ ([1816] 1817)
lesson11
Shelley’s ‘To a Skylark’ (1820)
lesson12
John Keats and Ode to a Grecian Urn’ (1819)
lesson13
Keats’ ‘Ode to Autumn’ ([1819] 1820)
lesson14
‘Ode to Autumn’
lesson15
Whither Romanticism?

Spot quizzes (at random) and 3 essays 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
Provided by teacher. 
PC or AV used in
Class,etc.
Text, Handouts, Audio Materials, Visual Materials
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Learning techniques to be incorporated Discussions, Paired Reading, Quizzes/ Quiz format, Post-class Report
Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review
Read the teacher-provided handouts and follow-up the secondary reading. 
Requirements None in particular 
Grading Method ・Quizzes ・3 essays 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
Other   
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching. 
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