English 204: British Literature IISchedule: Spring 2005 |
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Study Questions on Blake and Wordsworth NOTE: Reading assignments are in the Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 2, unless otherwise indicated. You should come to class prepared to discuss all the readings assigned for that day unless a different plan has been announced in the previous class. It is your responsibility to check these pages regularly for updates and new materials. |
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Dates |
Topics and Readings |
Writing & Other Assignments |
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| M 1/10 |
Introduction to Course and Romanticism | ||
| W 1/12 | William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience, 43-59. Concentrate on “Introduction,” “The Lamb,” “The Tyger,” “The Chimney Sweeper” (2 poems); Also “Mock On, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau,” 84; “And Did Those Feet,” 85 (see link on assignments page to song version). | Read syllabus and bring questions to class. See optional links on assignments page and illustrations and audio files in Norton CD. |
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| F1/14 | Discuss Blake and Romanticism | Read Reading Journal Requirements and bring questions to class. | |
| M 1/17 | Continue with Blake | Required journal entry on assignments page. | |
| W 1/19 | William Wordsworth, Start on "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" 238-51; Poems 222-28, 235-59, 284-99 |
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| F 1/21 | Continue with Wordsworth, especially "Tintern Abbey" and "Preface" | ||
| M 1/24 | Continue
with Wordsworth, especially "Ode: Intimations" and shorter poems
including sonnets |
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| W 1/26 | Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Look at illustrations by Gustave Dore (complete illustrated edition is on reserve in library and a different editions is available on Internet: Illustrated text at UVA Electronic Text Center; one illustration is in your Norton CD.) | Recommended: Write in your journal about the relationship between the illustrations and the text. | |
F 1/28 |
John Keats (823- ), "On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer," 826;"When I have fears," 833; "Bright Star," 845; "La Belle Dame Sans Merci," 845-47; "Ode to a Nightingale," 849-51; "Ode on a Grecian Urn," 851-53. | ||
| M 1/31 | Continue discussing Keats odes and "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." See links to paintings of "La Belle Dame" on assignments page. Percy B. Shelley (698- ),
“Ozymandias,” 725-26; “Ode to the West Wind,”
730-32; “When the Lamp is Shattered,” 786-87 and others as
you choose |
Required journal entry: Write first about your impressions of Frankenstein before you start studying it in this class. | |
| W 2/2 | Mary W. Shelley, “Introduction to Frankenstein,” 903-12. Reading all or part of the novel is optional but read through the following. Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature: Exhibit (1997-98) web site at National Library of Medicine. Read the pages The Birth of Frankenstein, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus and The Celluloid Monster. |
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| F 2/4 | Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” and other poems pp. 555-58, 560-63 | ||
| M 2/7 | TEST I - see Study Guide for Test I on Romanticism | ||
| W 2/9 | Introduction to Victorian Period Tennyson (1198-), “The
Lady of Shalott,” 1204 (illustrations at this link); “Ulysses,”
1213; “Tears, Idle Tears,” 1226; “The Eagle,”
1219; “Break, Break, Break,” 1216. |
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| F 2/11 | Edward Lear poems, 1662-65. Also read "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" at this link, with Lear's illustrations. Some background and other illustrations are given at http://www.the-office.com/bedtime-story/owlpussycat.htm. | ||
| M 2/14 | Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland | Optional: Watch video in media center | |
| W 2/16 | Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass (in Norton Critical edition) | ||
| F 2/18 | Continue discussion of Alice books | Paper 1 Due | |
| M 2/21 | Robert Browning (1345- ), Dramatic monologues 1345-53, especially “Porphyria’s Lover” and “My Last Duchess”; “Home Thoughts” and other lyric poems 1358, 1362 Optional: Browning's "The Pied Piper," with illustrations by Victorian Kate Greenaway |
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| W 2/23 | Eliz. Barrett Browning (1173- ) Sonnets 1178-80 | ||
| F 2/25 | Christina Rossetti, poems 1583-1605. Be sure to read "Goblin Market." Watercolor Waiting
for the Goblin Market by Omar Rayyan, 2003 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, poems 1573-82 See Norton Web site on The Painterly Image in Poetry with links to Rossetti and Morris illustrations. |
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| 2/28-3/4 | Spring Break! | ||
| M 3/7 | Pre-Raphaelites: Finish Rossettis William Morris (1605- ), “The Haystack in the Floods,” 1614-18 |
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| W 3/9 | Hopkins (1648- ), “God’s Grandeur,” 1651; “The Windhover” and “Pied Beauty,” 1652-53; “Felix Randall” and “Spring and Fall,” 1655-56 (didn't discuss in class) |
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| F 3/11 | Begin Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy | See assignment for Monday | |
| M-W 3/14-16 | Discuss Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Required journal entry on assignments page: Be prepared to discuss your character in class. | |
| F 3/18 | Hardy
poems, 1916-17, 1934-52, especially “A Broken Appointment,”
“The Ruined Maid,” “The Voice” |
Required journal/discussion assignment: Be prepared to discuss a poem you choose. | |
| M 3/21 | Finish discussing Hardy novel and poems | ||
| W 3/23 | Test 2 on Victorian period | ||
| Thur. 3/24 | Deadline
for approval of project
topic and date |
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| F-M 3/25-28 | Easter Break | ||
| W 3/30 - F 4/1 | The Twentieth Century Modernism (see introduction to the Twentieth Century and timeline) W. B. Yeats (2085- ) poems, especially “A Coat,” 2100; “The Stolen Child,” 2090-91; “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” 2092; “Who Goes with Fergus?” 2094; “The Second Coming,” 2106-7; “Easter 1916,”2104-6; “Sailing to Byzantium,” 2109-10; “Among School Children,” 2111-13 |
Required journal/discussion assignment: Be prepared to discuss a poem you choose. | |
| M 4/4 | James Joyce, “The Dead,” 2008-36 (Optional: Read "Araby"; you might like reading the shorter story first, but leave time to read "The Dead".) | ||
| W 4/6-F 4/8 | T. S. Eliot, “Sweeney Among the Nightingales,” 2367-68; “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” 2364-67; “The Hollow Men,” 2383-86; other poems optional but take a look at The Waste Land. |
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| M 4/11 | Virginia Woolf (2141- ), “The Mark on the Wall,” 2143-48; “A Room of One’s Own,” 2153-2214 (concentrate on chap. 3 on Shakespeare's sister) |
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| W 4/13 | D
H. Lawrence (2313- ), “Odor of Chrysanthemums,” 2316-30 “Why the Novel Matters,” 2341-45. Optional: poems pp. 2346- |
Final deadline for revision of paper 1 | |
| F 4/15 | Dylan Thomas, poems 2516-24, especially “Fern Hill” and “Do Not Go Gentle…" Sara Bagley report on William Blake's art and writing |
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| M 4/18 | Harold Pinter, The Dumb Waiter, 2594-2616 Kyle Carter report on Edward Lear's art and writing |
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| W 4/20 | Poems by Ted Hughes 2587-93 Kaitlin Peterson report on censorship and D. H. Lawrence |
Have you finished your oral reports and turn in your journal enough times? | |
| F 4/22 | Salman Rushdie, "The Prophet's Hair," 2842-52 Dave Pendleton report on C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien |
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| M 4/25 | Seamus Heaney poems 2818-29, especially “Digging,” “The Forge,” and “Punishment” Ryan Franz report on Ian Fleming |
Second paper due by today | |
| Tues. 4/26 | Nadine Gordimer, "The Moment before the Gun Went Off," 2572-76 Michelle Hicks report on Mary Shelley and Frankenstein Final review |
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| Fri., 4/29 | Final Exam, 2-4 p.m. Take-Home |
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