Hiroshima University Syllabus

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Academic Year 2026Year School/Graduate School Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (Master's Course) Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Humanities Program
Lecture Code WMBP9501 Subject Classification Specialized Education
Subject Name 英語圏詩文学作品演習A
Subject Name
(Katakana)
エイゴケンシブンガクサクヒンエンシュウA
Subject Name in
English
Seminar on Poetry in English A
Instructor PETER CHEYNE
Instructor
(Katakana)
ピーター チェイニ
Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 1st-Year,  Second Semester,  3Term
Days, Periods, and Classrooms (3T) Fri3-6:Faculty Office
Lesson Style Seminar Lesson Style
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Face-to-face, Online (simultaneous interactive)
 
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
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Class Status
within Educational
Program
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Criterion referenced
Evaluation
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Class Objectives
/Class Outline
The purpose of this course is to study British poetry of the Romantic period. 
Class Schedule Lesson 1: Overview of Romanticism

Lesson 2: William Blake and ‘The Tyger’ (1794)
Lesson 3: Behmenism, Blake, and ‘The Tyger’
Lesson 4: Samuel Taylor Coleridge and ‘Frost at Midnight’ (1798)
Lesson 5: Symbolism and recursiveness in ‘Frost at Midnight’
Lesson 6: Coleridge’s ‘Order of the Mental Powers’ (c.1824)

Lesson 7: Interpreting Wordsworth’s ‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’ (1800)

Lesson 8: William Wordsworth, ‘My Heart Leaps Up’ ([1802] 1807), and the Immortality Ode ([1804] 1807)
Lesson 9: Youth versus maturity in Wordsworth’s Immortality Ode

Lesson 10: Percy Bysshe Shelley and ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’ ([1816] 1817)

Lesson 11: Shelley’s ‘To a Skylark’ (1820)

Lesson 12: John Keats and ‘Ode to a Grecian Urn’ (1819)

Lesson 13: Keats’ ‘Ode to Autumn’ ([1819] 1820)

Lesson 14: ‘Ode to Autumn’

Lesson 15: Whither Romanticism? 
Text/Reference
Books,etc.
Provided by teacher. 
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Preparation and
Review
Read the teacher-provided handouts and follow-up the secondary reading. 
Requirements  
Grading Method ・Quizzes ・3 essays 
Practical Experience  
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it  
Message  
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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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