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British Literature 2323
Schedule of Readings

NOTE: Readings are keyed to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2. 8th Edition.
Week: Readings.
Week 1 Introduction to Romanticism, pp. 1-23; Blake, pp. 76-79, 81-97; Burns, pp. 129-147; Wordsworth, pp. 243-245, 258-75, 305-15, 317-320. Begin reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice (questions due Week 4)
Week 2 Coleridge, pp. 424-26, 430-49, 466-69, 471; Later Romantics: Byron, pp. 607-11, 612 (She Walks), 613, Excerpts from Don Juan 669-734.
Week 3 Shelley, pp. 741-44, 766-70,772-75, 817-19; Keats, pp. 878-80, 883, 898, 903-06, 925-26.
Week 4 Questions for Pride and Prejudice due.
Week 5

Victorians: Introduction, pp. 979-1000; Brownings, pp. 1077-92 (excerpts from Aurora Leigh), 1092-1108; 1248-56, 1271-86, 1296-1303, 1305-10.

Week 6 Tennyson, pp. 1109-12, 1114-28, 1135, (excerpts from In Memoriam), 1138-88, 1189-1211.
Week 7 Arnold, pp. 1350-56 (2 Marguerite poems), 1368 (Dover), 1402-04 (Ch. 5, Hellenism and Hebraism); Wilde, pp. 1686-87, 1698-1743.
Week 8 Shaw, pp. 1743-90.
Week 9 Midterm exam, Wednesday, 3/18. After you take the exam, read the introduction to the 20th century, pp. 1827-50. E-mail me the topic for your term paper.

Week 10

Hopkins, pp. 1513-16, 1516 (God's), 1518 (Windhover), 1518 (Pied), 1521 (Spring), 1521 (Carrion), 1522 (No), 1522 (Thou); Hardy, pp. 1851-52, 1868-69, 1871, 1884. Progress report and annotated bibliography for term paper due.

Week 11 Yeats, pp. 2019-22, 2025, 2026 (When), 2029 (No), 2031 (Easter), 2033, 2036(Second), 2037(Prayer), 2046 (Sailing), 2039 (Leda), 2041 (Among), 2044(Byzantium), 2047 (Stanza 6), 2053-58; Outline due.
Week 12 Woolf, pp. 2080-82, 2087-92, 2092-2152 (excerpts), 2152-62; World War I poets: 1954-55, 1960-65, 1971, 1974 (Dulce), 1976 (Futility), 1979-80; 1984-86.
Week 13 Joyce, pp. 2163-68, 2172-2200; Orwell, pp. 2378, 2384-93. Essay due, Wednesday, 4/15.
Week 14 Eliot, pp. 2286-93, 2295 (excerpts), 2309 (excerpts), 2312; Auden, pp. 2421, 2428 (Musee), 2429, 2431-32.
Week 15 Thomas, pp.2444-46,(Force), 2447-51.
Week 16 Final Exam due: Monday, 5/7.

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