Class Syllabus

May M 22 Introduction Selections from Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the Eglish People
  T 23 Beowulf
Caedmon's Hymn
  W 24 Beowulf
The Last Survivors Speech
  R 25 Marie de France, Bisclavret and Lanval
  M 29 no class - Memorial Day Holiday
  T 30 Geoffrey Chaucer,The General Prologue of the Canterbury Tales
Audio Recording in Old English
  W 31 **no class**
June R 1 Geoffrey Chaucer, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
Audio Recording in Old English
paper #1 due
  F 2 Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (selections)
William Shakespeare, Sonnets (selections)
  M 5 William Shakespeare, King Lear
  T 6 William Shakespeare, King Lear
  W 7 John Milton, Paradise Lost Book I
  R 8

John Milton, Paradise Lost Books IX and XII

Additional Selections
Book V
Book VIII
Chronology of the Life of Milton

  M 12 Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
paper #2 due
  T 13 William Wordsworth, Preface to the Lyrical Ballads (selections),
"Tintern Abbey," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan," "Christabel"
  W 14 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  R 15 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
  M 19 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Kraken," "Mariana," "Ulysses,"
"Charge of the Light Brigade"Audio Recording
Christina Rosetti, "Goblin Market"
paper #3 due
  T 20 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
  W 21 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
  R 22 James Joyce, "The Dead"
  M 26 William Butler Yeats, "Easter 1916" and "The Second Coming"
The Isle of the Lake of Inisfree Audio Recording
T. S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"
  T 27 T. S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"
  W 28 Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
  R 29 Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse
Final Paper due
July W 5 Final Exam