Lectures
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Online readings
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| Introduction to the Homeric Epic |
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Homer, The Iliad | Summary of entire epic |
| Introduction to Medieval Literature and Dante |
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Dante, The Inferno, Canto V and XXXIII |
| Introduction to Formal Poetry |
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Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I | Contextualizing summary of PL in its entirety |
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| Introduction to Milton, Paradise Lost Book I |
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Wordsworth, "Intimations of Immortality" |
| Introduction to Literary Criticism |
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| Introduction to Romanticism |
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| Introduction to the Novel: Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus |
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Resources |
Introduction to Allegorical Fiction and E. A. Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death"
Introduction to the Short Story/Faulkner - The Southern Gothic |
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Homer | Patroclos Pleads with Achilles | Hector and Achilles' Combat to Death | Hector's Death | Lecture on Homer and Summary of the Iliad (MP3)
Lecture on Dante's Inferno (37 min)(MP3)
Milton | Background to Milton's Paradise Lost (MP3)
Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" |
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Assignments
 Sample Research Paper
Final Exam
Study Guide |
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Other sites of interest
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Optional reading
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