Information Package / Course Catalogue
Twentieth Century English Literature II
Course Code: İDE414
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: English
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 0
Credit: 2
Lab: 0
ECTS: 4
Objectives of the Course

On completion of this module students should be able to: 1. demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a range of poetry written in the said period; 2. demonstrate awareness on how the cultural and political factors conditioned the literary output; 3. demonstrate awareness about the characteristics of the movements and trace imprints of the movements from the poems studied.

Course Content

Through the works of poets such as Ivor Gurney, Teresa Hooley, Winifred Mary Letts, Gilbert Frankau, Siegfried Sassoon, Leon Gellert, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ezra Loomis Pound, David Herbert Lawrence, Rupert John Cornford, Wystan Hugh Auden, Alun Lewi,s Gillespie Magee, Sorley MacLean, Keith Dougla,s E. J. Scovell, Edwin Mui,r Dylan Thoma,s Robert Graves, Philip Larkin and Seamus Heaney, students are expected to grasp the spirit, movements and developments of the age.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Ins. Özgür ESEN
Learning Outcomes
1.To demonstrate knowledge of a range of poems derived from late 19th and 20th century;
2.To demonstrate knowledge of the movements that emerged in the 20th century and prominent precursors and poets ;
3.To demonstrate knowledge of WWII poetry;
4.To demonstrate knowledge of the emotional, economic and political factors that initiated the movements;
5.To be able to trace characteristics from the poems of the period.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Hulse, Michael and Simon Rae (eds.), The 20th Century in Poetry, Stirlingshire: Ebury Press, 2011
2.Longley, Edna (ed.), The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry, Glasgow: Bloodaxe Books, 2000
3.MacBeth, George (ed.), Poetry 1900 to 1975, Essex: Longman, 1983
4.Allison, Alexander W. (et al.), The Norton Anthology of Poetry, New York: W.W.Norton, 1983
5.Ellman, Richard, Robert O’Clair (eds.), The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, New York: W.W.Norton, 1973
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Intoduction to the course.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Francis Ledwidge “Thoughts at the Trysting Stile”; Wilfred Owen “Insensibility”
Week 3 - Theoretical
Ivor Gurney “Sevitude”; Teresa Hooley “A War Film”; Winifred Mary Letts “The Deserter”
Week 4 - Theoretical
Gilbert Frankau “The Deserter”; Siegfried Sassoon “Hero”; Leon Gellert “Before Action”, “A Night Attack”
Week 5 - Theoretical
Wilfred Owen “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, “Strange Meeting”; Gerard Manley Hopkins “Pied Beauty”; William Butler Yeats “The Second Coming”
Week 6 - Theoretical
Ezra Loomis Pound an extract from Hugh Selwyn Mauberley “Part IV”; Ivor Gurney “The Bohemians”, “Riez Bauilleul”; G. K. Chesterton “Elegy in a Country Churchyard”
Week 7 - Theoretical
Thomas Stearns Eliot an extract from The Waste Land “III. The Fire Sermon”
Week 8 - Theoretical
Eliot continued.
Week 9 - Theoretical
William Butler Yeats “Sailing to Byzantium”
Week 10 - Theoretical
David Herbert Lawrence “Snake”
Week 11 - Theoretical
Thomas Hardy “No Buyers”; Rupert John Cornford “A Letter from Aragon”; Wystan Hugh Auden “Say This City Has Ten Million Souls”
Week 12 - Theoretical
From World War II Poetry: Alun Lewis “All Day It Has Rained”; Gillespie Magee “High Flight”; Sorley MacLean “Death Valley”; Keith Douglas “Vegissmeinnicht”
Week 13 - Theoretical
E. J. Scovell “A Refugee”; Edwin Muir “The Castle”; Dylan Thomas “Fern Hill”
Week 14 - Theoretical
Robert Graves “The Cloak”; Philip Larkin “Church Going”; Seamus Heaney “Digging”
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory144284
Assignment1224
Midterm Examination1426
Final Examination1426
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)100
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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