Syllabus and Course Policies

Online Readings

• Summary of Paradise Lost
• Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
• Shelley, Percy, "Author's Preface" to Prometheus Unbound
• Wordsworth, William, "Intimations of Immortality"

Assignments

• Paper I worksheet (MS Word format)
• Exam recap guide (PDF)

Lectures

• Introduction to the Epic | Homer
• Introduction to Medieval Literature | Dante's Comedy.
• Introduction to Elizabethan Drama: Othello
• Introduction to Paradise Lost
• Introduction to Literary Criticism
• Introduction to Romanticism
• Introduction to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
• Introduction to Edgar Allan Poe and the short story
• Introduction to Victorian Poetry: The Brownings
• Introduction to Modern Drama: A Streetcar Named Desire