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POPE SWIFT AND JOHNSON - 44747
 Last update 15-10-2020

HU Credits: 4

Degree/Cycle: 2nd degree (Master)

Responsible Department: English

Academic year: 0

Semester: Yearly

Teaching Languages: English

Campus: Mt. Scopus

Course/Module Coordinator: sbudick@yahoo.com

Coordinator Email: sbudick@yahoo.com

Coordinator Office Hours:

Teaching Staff:
 Prof Sanford Budick

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Course/Module description:
 Major works of Swift, Pope, and Dr. Johnson: well known masterpieces such as
Gulliver's Travels, The Rape of the Lock, and Rasselas, but also other equally
impressive, though less familiar, works of first-rate imagination.

Course/Module aims:
 The course aim is to achieve a grasp of English classicism/neo-classicism as a
route to a firm hold on reality--both its joys and it tragedies

Learning outcomes - On successful completion of this module, students should be
able to:
 The course aim is to achieve a grasp of English classicism/neo-classicism as a
route to a firm hold on reality--both its joys and it tragedies

Attendance requirements(%):
 Without the need for explanations, students can miss two class meetings in each
semester. More than that, however, will make participation in the course
untenable--for the student and for the rest of us.

Teaching arrangement and method of instruction: Aside from the weekly reading
(specified in detail in the list of readings that I will distribute two weeks before the
school year begins) students are asked to write nine short papers in each semester,
each focusing on just one word or phrase in the reading for that week. I ask that the
papers reach me by email the evening before before the given class meeting. I will
return the papers, with my brief comments, at the class meeting (or by scan and
email, if we are still on Zoom) and I will build the papers into our discussions.

Course/Module Content:
 Aside from the weekly reading (specified in detail in the list of readings that I will
distribute two weeks before the school year begins) students are asked to write
nine short papers in each semester, each focusing on just one word or phrase in the
reading for that week. I ask that the papers reach me by email the evening before
before the given class meeting. I will return the papers, with my brief comments, at
the class meeting (or by scan and email, if we are still on Zoom) and I will build the
papers into our discussions.

Required Reading:
This will depend on the arrangements that the university and Academon are able to
make for the selling/buying of books.Presumably the situation will be clear by the

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end of the summer. One option would be to order texts individually on the net,
say,from Book Depository in England.

Additional Reading Material:

 Course/Module evaluation:
 End of year written/oral examination 0 %
 Presentation 0 %
 Participation in Tutorials 0 %
 Project work 0 %
 Assignments 95 %
 Reports 0 %
 Research project 0 %
 Quizzes 0 %
 Other 5 %
clas participation

Additional information:

POPE, SWIFT, AND JOHNSON S. Budick
Course number: 44747 Department of English

Wednesday, 14:30-16:00 beginning on Zoom

SYLLABUS, 2020-21

Texts: Alexander Pope, Selected Poetry, ed. Pat Rogers (Oxford: Oxford University
Press,1998); The Essential Writings of Jonathan Swift, ed. Claude Rawson and Ian
Higgins (New York: Norton, 2010); Selected Writings, Samuel Johnson, ed. Peter
Martin (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009)

Course requirements:

1. In each of nine weeks of each semester (according to the student's choice)
students are asked to write a half- to one-page paper about any single word or
phrase in the reading assigned for a given week. Students should please send their
papers to me at sbudick@yahoo.com by 9 p.m. on the Tuesday evening preceding
the class in which the assigned reading is to be discussed. To a considerable extent,
the topics to be discussed in class will be determined by challenging papers.

2. Timely and regular attendance are course requirements, since without them we

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will not understand eachothers' comments in discussion. Please be on time, whether
to the Zoom or classroom meeting. (You're welcome to bring a sandwich and/or
something to drink to the class meeting—on the Zoom as well.) The first few minutes
of each class meeting are particularly important, since we will then set out many of
the principal questions and topics for that meeting’s discussion. No more than two
unexcused absences are allowed in each semester.

Reception hours: when safety permits, by appointment, in room 6616 of the
Humanities Building. Otherwise, you should feel free to contact me anytime by
email, sbudick@yahoo.com


Pope, Swift, and Johnson: 2020-21

READINGS FOR THE FIRST SEMESTER
(where given, page numbers refer to the editions listed above)

21 October Introduction; POPE: “Epistle to Miss Blount, on her Leaving the Town
after the Coronation,” “Essay on Criticism”

28 October “Windsor Forest”

4 November The Rape of the Lock

11 November “Eloisa to Abelard,” “Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady,”
“Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet Who Died of a Cancer in Her Breast” (to be sent by email)

18 November “Epitaph Intended for Sir Isaac Newton,” “Epistle to Richard Boyle,”
“Epistle to Allen Lord Bathurst,” “An Epistle to a Lady”

25 November “Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot”

2 December “Epilogue to the Satires” I and II

9 December The Dunciad, Books One and Two

16 December The Dunciad, Books Three and Four

23 December SWIFT: “A Modest Proposal,” “An Argument Against Abolishing
Christianity,”

30 December “The Battel of the Books,” “The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit”

6 January A Tale of a Tub, prefatory matter, Sections I-IV

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13 January A Tale of a Tub, Section V-VIII

                                   20 January A Tale of a Tub, prefatory matter, Section IX-XI

                                   READINGS FOR THE SECOND SEMESTER

                                   17 March “A Meditation upon a Broom-stick,” “A Vindication of Isaac Bickerstaff,”
                                   “The Drapier’s Letters,” I and IV, “A Short View of the State of Ireland”

                                   24 March “Baucis and Philemon,” “A Description of a Morning,” “Cadenus and
                                   Vanessa,” “Phyllis: or the Progress of Love,”

                                   7 April “Stella’s Birth-day” (1721, 1722, 1723, and 1725), “Strephon and Chloe,”
                                   “Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift”

                                   21 April Gulliver’s Travels, prefatory matter, Part I, Part II

                                   28 April Gulliver’s Travels, Part III, Part IV

                                   5 May JOHNSON: (pages 3-84) Rambler, 2, 5,8,28, 29,32, 41, 47, 52, 67, 71, 108,
                                   183, 193; Adventurer, 50, 69, 119; Idler, 11, 14, 27, 44, 72,74

                                   12 May (pages 85-133) Rambler, 39, 45, 50,72, 80, 148, 170, 171, 188; Adventurer,
                                   Idler, 67; Rambler, 60; Idler, 84, 102

                                   19 May (pages 134-172) Rambler, 89, 117, 134, 161, 163, 165, 208; Adventurer, 39;
                                   Idler, 31, 103

                                   26 May (pages 173-213) Rambler, 4, 21, 23, 77, 137, 156, 184; Adventurer, 137;
                                   Idler, 59, 60, 61

                                   2 June (pages 214-220) Rambler, 78; Idler, 41, 10, 20, 22, 38,81

                                   9 June Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia

                                   16 June Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, continued

                                   23 June (pages 353-396) Preface to The Plays of William Shakespeare

                                   30 June (pages 397-470) from Lives of the Poets: Cowley, Milton, Pope

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