209 Schedule

Fall 2011 English 209: British Lit 1800 to Present

Preliminary Reading and Writing Calendar

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)
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)
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
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
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
Dec 5
Dec 6
Dec 7
Dec 8
Dec 9
Book Club Presentation Dead Day: No Classes
Finals
Final: 11:30-1:30
Finals