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Join Professor Pearce as he leads us through a thousand years of Christian verse, introducing us to those great poems which every Catholic should know, including the poetry of Dante, Southwell, Crashaw, Coleridge, Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, and Sassoon.
Total classes: 6
Prerequisite: None
Suggested grade level: 9th to 12th
Suggested credit: 1/2 semester Poetry or Literature
Description
Join Professor Pearce as he leads us through a thousand years of Christian verse, introducing us to those great poems which every Catholic should know, including the poetry of Dante, Southwell, Crashaw, Coleridge, Newman, Hopkins, Belloc, Chesterton, and Sassoon.
Outline
Class One – Dante (pp. 10-21)
Class Two – Martyred Saints & Exiled Poets (pp. 47-72 & 116-129)
Class Three – Coleridge, Newman & Hopkins (pp. 165-183 & 215-220)
Class Four – Wilde, Thompson & Dowson (pp. 223-249)
Class Five – Belloc, Baring & Chesterton (pp. 251-253 & 262-268)
Class Six – Sassoon (pages 269-274)
Materials and Homework
Course Materials: Poems Every Catholic Should Know by Joseph Pearce (the instructor), ISBN #978-1-50510-862-0 (also available as a Kindle book. The Kindle app is free.)
Homework: The reading assignment for each class is detailed in the Course Outline above. Students should complete the assigned reading for each class beforehand. Students should highlight the passages discussed in class and review this for the quiz assigned for each class. The estimated time for homework for each class, i.e. for the assigned reading and reviewing for each quiz, should be about 90 minutes.
