ENG 200 | SPRING 2010

Cajsa C. Baldini

Lectures | PowerPoint

• Introduction to the Classical Epic/Homer
• Introduction to Medieval Literature, Culture, and Dante's Comedy
• Introduction to Formal Poetry and the Renaissance
• Introduction to Renaissance Drama: Othello
• Introduction to John Milton's Paradise Lost
• Introduction to Romantic Literature
• Introduction to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Or, The Modern Prometheus - The Novel Genre
• Introduction to the Short Story Genre and the Southern Gothic: Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily"

Course Documents

Grades

• Gradebook on Blackboard

Pertinent Links

• The Florence Summer Program
• Instructor website
• The Ultimate List of Necessary Literary Works

Resources

• Bulfinch's Mythology
• Hayden Library Catalog
• English Department Guide to Style (by Profs. Gregory Castle and Anita Obermeyer) (PDF)

Audio Resources

• 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"