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Textbook for the course:
David Damrosch, ed., The Longman Anthology of British Literature,
Volume Two
Reading assignments must
be read carefully before the class period for which they are assigned.
I will give a number of quizzes throughout the semester. Points from
the quizzes will count towards the point total of the semester. Course
evaluation.
This is a writing-intensive
course. Assignments also include: essays
and a research
essay.
August 27 |
Introduction |
August 29 |
The Romantics
and Their Contemporaries, pp. 3-28; Blake,
"Songs of Innocence and of Experience" |
September
3 |
Labor
Day |
September
5 |
Perspectives:
The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade, pp. 149-195 |
September
10 |
Wollstonecraft,
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, pp. 206-35 |
September
12 |
Perspectives:
The Wollstonecraft Controversy and the Rights of Women, pp. 247-86 |
September
17 |
Wordsworth,
"Lines Written a Few miles above Tintern Abbey"; "Preface
to Lyrical Ballads" (pp 332-6); "Strange fits of Passion
have I known"; "Nutting." |
September
19 |
Wordsworth,
"Elegiac Stanzas"; Sonnets, pp. 359-63; The Prelude,
from Book Eleventh, 418-23; "Ode: Intimations of Immortality,"
"The Solitary Reaper." |
September
24 |
Coleridge,
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Biographia Literaria
(pp. 525-37) |
September
26 |
Keats, "The
Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame sans Mercy," and
Letter to George and Thomas Keats (pp. 795-6) |
October
1 |
Keats, "Ode
to a Nightingale," "Ode to a Grecian Urn," and "To
Autumn" |
October
3 |
Shelley,
"Adonais" and A Defence of Poetry (pp. 696-705) |
October
8 |
"The
Victorian Age," pp. 1032-1055; Carlyle, pp. 1057-1093 |
October
10 |
E.B. Browning,
Sonnets from the Portuguese, and Robert Browning, "My Last
Duchess" and "Fra Lippo Lippi" |
October
15 |
Midterm
Examination |
October
17 |
Tennyson,
"Mariana," "The Lady of Shalott," "The
Lotos-Eaters," and "Ulysses" |
October
22 |
Eliot, "Brother
Jacob" |
October
24 |
Dickens,
"A Christmas Carol" |
October
29 |
Arnold,
"Dover Beach," The Function of Criticism at the Present
Time, and Culture and Anarchy |
October
31 |
D.G. Rossetti,
"The Blessed Damozel," and Christina Rossetti, "Goblin
Market" |
November
5 |
Hopkins,
"God's Grandeur," "The Starlight Night," "Spring,"
"The Windhover," "Pied Beauty," "Hurrahing
in Harvest," "[Carrion Comfort]," "No Worst,
There is None," "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not
Day," "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord," and Journal (pp.1786-7) |
November
7 |
"The
Twentieth Century," pp. 1991-2011; Hardy, "The Darkling
Thrush," "The Convergence of the Twain," and "Channel
Firing" |
November
12 |
Conrad,
Heart of Darkness |
November
14 |
Yeats, "The
Lake Isle of Innisfree," "The Wild Swans at Coole,"
"The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium,"
"Leda and the Swan," and "Byzantium" |
November
19 |
Blast,
pp. 2191-2225 |
November
21 |
Owen, "Anthem
for Doomed Youth," "Strange Meeting," and "Dulce
Et Decorum East," and Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred
Prufrock" |
November
26 |
Joyce, from
Ulysses (pp. 2379-2404) |
November
28 |
Woolf, "The Lady
in the Looking-Glass: A Reflection;" Lawrence, "Tortoise
Shout"; Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts," "In
Memory of W.B. Yeats," and "In Praise of Limestone"
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December
3 |
Perspectives:
Whose Language? (pp. 2842-2897) |
December
5 |
Conclusion
and Review |
December
10 |
Final
examination, 10 a.m. to noon |
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