Closed: Poems Every Catholic Should Know

High School Level | This course is completed

High School Level

Tuesday, July 17, 2018-Thursday, July 26, 2018

11:30 AM-12:30 PM EDT on Tue Wed Th

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$110.00

Total classes: 6
Class date: Tuesdays through Thursdays July 17 to July 26, 2018
Starting time: 11:30 AM Eastern (10:30 Central; 9:30 Mountain; 8:30 Pacific)
Duration: 55 minutes
Prerequisite: None
Suggested grade level: 9th to 12th grade
Suggested credit: 1/2 semester Poetry or Literature
Fee: $75 if you register on or before March 15, 2018. $90 after March 15th for all 6 classes. ($110 after July 9th)
Instructor: Joseph Pearce
Course 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.
Course 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)

  • 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.
  • 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.)
Pearce, Joseph

A native of England, Joseph Pearce is Senior Editor at the Augustine Institute, Senior Fellow and Journal Editor at the Cardinal Newman Society, and Tolkien & Lewis Chair in Literary Studies at Holy Apostles College & Seminary. He is editor of the St. Austin Review (www.staustinreview.org), an international review of Catholic culture, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions (www.ignatiuscriticaleditions.com), executive director of Catholic Courses (www.catholiccourses.com), and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative. The internationally acclaimed author of many books, which include bestsellers such as The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc, Joseph Pearce is a world-recognized biographer of modern Christian literary figures. His books have been published and translated into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Croatian, and Polish. Pearce has hosted two 13-part television series about Shakespeare on EWTN, and has also written and presented documentaries on EWTN on the Catholicism of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. He has participated and lectured at a wide variety of international and literary events at major colleges and universities in the U.S., Canada, Britain, Europe, Africa and South America.