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Greeting
Readme
Syllabus
Readings
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British Literature
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Schedule of Readings
NOTE:
Readings are keyed to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2.
8th Edition.
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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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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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