| Sept 19 |
Sept 20 | Sept 21 | Sept 22 | Sept 23 |
| Introduction and reasons for writing; literary biography; Romanticism Lecture | WPA
Conference; No Class; Romantic Period (1-23) |
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| Sept 26 | Sept 27 | Sept 28 |
Sept 29 |
Sept 30 |
| Blake, from Songs of Innocence: Introduction (81), The Lamb (83), The Little Black Boy (84), Chimney Sweeper (85), Holy Thursday (86) | Blake, from Songs of Experience: Introduction (87), Holy Thursday (90), Chimney Sweeper (90), London (94), the Tyger (92) | Blake "illumination" project and presentation | Burns: Holy Willie's Prayer (132), To a Mouse
(135), To a Louse (136), Auld Lang Syne (137) |
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| Oct
3 |
Oct
4 |
Oct 5 |
Oct 6 |
Oct
7 |
| Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey (258), World is Too Much With Us (319), Composed Upon West Minster Bridge (317), London, 1802 (319). | Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient
Mariner (430) |
Burke: Reflections (152), Paine: Rights of Man (163), Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women (167-195) | book club formation day; Shelley: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (766), Ozymandias (768), Ode to the West Wind (772), Defence of Poetry (837). | |
| Oct 10 | Oct 11 | Oct 12 | Oct 13 | Oct 14 |
| Keats: On Seeing Elgin Marbles (883), Sonnet: When I have Fears (888), Ode on Melancholy (906) | Victorian Age (979-1000), Mill: On Liberty (1051), The Subjection of Women (1060) | |
Essay One Assignment and Expectations; Gaskell: Old Nurse's Story (1222); Dickens: A Visit to Newgate (1239) | Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest (1698) |
| Oct 17 | Oct
18 |
Oct 19 |
Oct 20 | Oct 21 |
| Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1890) |
Kipling: The Man Who Would be King (1794) |
Hardy: Hap (1868), Ah, Are You Digging My Grave? (1879), Convergence of the Twain (1878), Channel Firing (1877) | Essay One Draft for evaluation | |
| Oct 24 | Oct 25 | Oct 26 | Oct 27 | Oct
28 |
| Seminar One |
101 Portfolio Readings; Book Club Work Day | |
Essay One due for grading | Midterm Exam |
| Oct
31 |
Nov
1 |
Nov 2 |
Nov 3 |
Nov
4 |
| Poets of
The
Great War--Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Rosenberg. (poems to be assigned) |
Yeats: Easter, 1916 (2031), Adam's Curse
(2028), The Second Coming (2036), Sailing to Byzantium (2040) |
Book Club Work Day |
Midterm Book Club Presentations | |
| Nov
7 |
Nov
8 |
Nov 9 |
Nov 10 | Nov 11 |
| Joyce: The Dead (2172) | Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (2289),
Tradition and the Individual Talent (2319) LAST DAY TO DROP CLASS! |
Independent Research and Writing; no class meeting. | Veteran's Day
Holiday; No Class |
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| Nov 14 | Nov 15 | Nov 16 | Nov 17 | Nov 18 |
| Woolf: A Room of One's Own (2092) |
Lawrence: Odour of Chrysanthemums (2245), The Horse Dealer's
Daughter (2258), How Beastly the Bourgeois Is (2282) |
Essay Two draft due for grading evaluation | Book
ClubWork Day |
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| Nov 21 | Nov 22 | Nov 23 | Nov 24 | Nov 25 |
| Seminar Two | Essay Two due for grading | Faculty Work Day; No Class | Thanksgiving Holiday | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Nov 28 |
Nov 29 |
Nov 30 |
Dec 1 |
Dec 2 |
| Book Club Work Day |
Book Club Presentation |
Book Club Presentation |
Book Club Presentation |
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| Dec 5 |
Dec 6 |
Dec 7 |
Dec 8 |
Dec 9 |
| Book Club Presentation | Dead Day: No Classes |
Finals |
Final: 11:30-1:30 |
Finals |