BASIC PROGRAM of LIBERAL EDUCATION FOR ADULTS Summer Quarter 2016 Selected Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins COURSE INFORMATION COURSE TITLE: Selected CODE & SECTION: LENGTH OF COURSE (No class July 4) Poetry of Gerard Manly Hopkins BPUPGM: Section 16U1 8 WEEKS (June 20 – August 15, 2016) INSTRUCTOR: Claudia Traudt CLASS LOCATION COURSE SCHEDULE PHONE: 312‐925‐3778 Gleacher Center DAYS: Monday Days EMAIL: [email protected]
450 N. Cityfront Plaza Drive TIMES: 10 AM – 1:15 PM Chicago IL 60611 GRAHAM SCHOOL INFORMATION PHONE: 773.702.1722 WEBSITE: https://grahamschool.uchicago.edu PREREQUISITES None ATTENDANCE POLICY Students should register before the course begins. COURSE DESCRIPTION "...Pitched past pitch of grief..."
Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry startles and thrills. It reveals - via the musics and rigors of its form
and its content. Hopkins developed his famous "sprung rhythm," seeking the expressiveness and pulse
of the human voice, the exactitude of mind and emotion in treating of God, the manifest world, the
rivings of the human condition, his being, and the fraught relations of all those. A convert to
Catholicism, later a Jesuit priest serving in Ireland, Hopkins knew and sang compellingly our human
splendors: "Glory be to God for dappled things" - and anguish: "No worst, there is none."
REQUIRED TEXTS 1. Gerard Manley Hopkins. Poems and Prose. (ed. W.H. Gardner) (NY: Penguin, 1985) ISBN 9‐780‐14‐042015‐9 THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WEEKLY READING SCHEDULE WEEK Author TEXT/READING ASSIGNMENT Week 1 Date: 6/20 Gerard Manley Hopkins God’s Grandeur, The Alchemist in the City, “Let me be to Thee as the circling bird,” Heaven‐Haven, The Habit of Perfection, Week 2 Date: 6/27 Gerard Manley Hopkins The Wreck of the Deutschland, Penmaen Pool, The Starlight Night, Spring, The Lantern Out of Doors, NO CLASS MEETING Date: 7/4 HAPPY JULY 4TH! NO CLASS The Sea and the Skylark, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Hurrahing in Harvest, The Caged Skylark Week 3 Date: 7/11 Gerard Manley Hopkins In the Valley of the Elwy, The Loss of the Eurydice, Binsey Polars, Duns Scotus’s Oxford Week 4 Date: 7/18 Gerard Manley Hopkins Henry Purcell, Peace, The Bugler’s First Communion, Morning, Midday and Evening Sacrifice, Andromeda Week 5 Date: 7/25 Gerard Manley Hopkins The Candle Indoors, The Handsome Heart, At the Wedding March, Felix Randal, Brothers, Spring and Fall, Inversnaid Week 6 Date: 8/1 Gerard Manley Hopkins “As kingfishers catch fire,” Ribblesdale, The Leaden Echo and the
Golden Echo, To What Serves Mortal Beauty? Spelt from Sibyl’s
Leaves, (The Soldier)
Week 7 Date: 8/8 Gerard Manley Hopkins (Carrion Comfort), “No worst, there is none,” “To seem the stranger lies my lot,” “I wake and feel the fell of dark,” “Patience, hard thing!”
Week 8 Date: 8/15 Gerard Manley Hopkins “My own heart let me have more pity on,” Tom’s Garland, Harry Ploughman, That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire, “Thou art indeed just, Lord,” To R.B. This syllabus is a summary of course objectives and content, not a contract. All information in this syllabus is subject to change, with sufficient advance notice provided by the instructor. CLASSROOM ETIQUETTE As we may be addressing controversial topics in our class discussions, we expect students to be respectful and considerate of others. DISABILITY INFORMATION The Graham School of Professional Studies abides by the Americans with Disabilities Act (see http://www.ada.gov/pubs/adastatute08.htm), with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (see http://www.dol.gov/oasam/regs/statutes/sec504.htm), and the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (see http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/ferpa/index.html) and will provide reasonable accommodations to students with disabilities covered by law. If you have a disability for which you may require accommodations, please contact Gregory Moorehead, Director of Student Disability Services, at 773.702.7776 or [email protected] in advance of the first class meeting. THE GRAHAM SCHOOL OF CONTINUING LIBERAL AND PROFESSIONAL STUDIES ‐ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO