12.5 1st year Mary Dove. Second semester One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial per week. Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will be acquainted with a wide range of literature pre-1800, enabling them to make informed choices from among later year options in earlier literature;
• will have a broad awareness of forms of literary language pre-1800, and be familiar with some of the reference tools related to study in this area;
• will have considered how love and the past have been represented in some pre-1800 texts;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing, and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied;
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject aims to introduce students to English verse, prose and drama before 1800 focusing on two areas: (1) literature concerning love and (2) literary representations of the past. Students will be invited to consider how their own cultural context influences their reading of earlier cultures and to respond to their reading with creative as well as reflective and analytical writing. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde. Malory The Tale of King Arthur. Shakespeare Henry V. A course anthology containing The Battle of Maldon, the Chester Play of the Creation of Adam and Eve, a selection of love-lyrics, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Milton's Comus, Pope's 'Eloisa to Abelard', Swift's The Battle of the Books will be available from the department 12.5 Mary Dove. Second semester. One 1-hour lecture and one 1.5-hour tutorial each week Students who complete this subject successfully:

• will be acquainted with a wide range of literature pre-1800, enabling them to make informed choices from among later year options in earlier literature;
• will have a broad awareness of forms of literary language pre-1800, and be familiar with some of the reference tools related to study in this area;
• will have considered how love and the past have been represented in some pre-1800 texts;
• will have acquired relevant research skills including use of the library, referencing, and presentation of written work;
• will be able to apply flexible reading strategies and writing practices to the material studied; and
• will have a background of relevant knowledge and methodologies, both critical and theoretical, on which to base further studies in English and Cultural Studies.

This subject aims to introduce students to English verse, prose and drama before 1800 focusing on two areas: (1) literature concerning love and (2) literary representations of the past. Students will be invited to consider how their own cultural context influences their reading of earlier cultures and to respond to their reading with creative as well as reflective and analytical writing. Written work of not more than 4,000 words. Chaucer Troilus and Criseyde. Malory The Tale of King Arthur. Shakespeare Henry V. A course anthology containing The Battle of Maldon, the Chester Play of the Creation of Adam and Eve, a selection of love-lyrics, Marlowe's Hero and Leander, Milton's Comus, Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard", Swift's The Battle of the Books will be available from the department