English 2122.03 schedule, spring 2010

Updated 4/25/10

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Wednesday, March 3 Drop/add ends

The Romantic Era  
Romanticism  
William Blake overview
  "All Religions Are One" 79-80  

  "There Is No Natural Religion" (a & b) 80-81   

  "The Divine Image" 85-86
  "A Divine Image" 97 
 

  "The Human Abstract" 95

Introduction to course
Course syllabus
2000-4000 grades

Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-10
Friday, March 5 Student info form (online)
Simple stuff exercise
   
Monday, March 8-
Saturday, March 13
Spring break Spring break Spring break
Monday, March 15  

Nuggets 1-10
William Blake overview

Norton Anthology Vol. D:
Blake headnote 76-79    

  "Introduction" & "Introduction" 81-82, 87-88  

  "The Little Black Boy" 84   

  "The Lamb" & "The Tyger" 83-84, 92-93   

  "The Chimney Sweeper" (two poems) 85, 90  

  "The Clod & the Pebble" 89  

  "The Garden of Love" 94   

  "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" 111-20

Mary Wollstonecraft overview  
Wollstonecraft headnote: 167-70  
 
  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 170-95

 
Wednesday, March 17  

Quotes and documentation 1-5
William Wordsworth overview
Wordsworth headnote 243-45
 
"Simon Lee" & "We Are Seven" 245-49
  "Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey" 258-62
  "P
reface to Lyrical Ballads" 262-74
  "I wandered lonely as a cloud" 305-6
 
"My heart leaps up" 306
 
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality" 306-12
 
"The world is too much with us" 319

Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview
Coleridge headnote 424-26    

  "The Eolian Harp"  426-28   

  "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" 428-30   

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 430-46  

  "Frost at Midnight" 464-66

 
Monday, March 22

 

Word problems
On plagiarism
Percy Bysshe Shelley overview

Shelley headnote 741-44
   "Mont
Blanc" 762-66
  "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" 766-68
 
"Stanzas Written in Dejection" 769-70
  "A Song: 'Men of England'" 770-71
  "England in 1819" 771
  "Ode to the West Wind" 772-75

John Keats overview
Keats headnote 878-80    

  "
On First Looking . . . Homer" 880-81
  "The Eve of St. Agnes" 888-98
 
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" 899-900
  "Ode to a Nightingale" 903-5
  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 905-7

  
Wednesday, March 24  

Introduction to Victorians

Thomas Carlyle overview
Carlyle
headnote 1002-5  

  "The Everlasting No" 1005-11   

  "The Everlasting Yea" 1017-24

Elizabeth Barrett Browning overview
E. B. Browning headnote 1077-79
  "To George Sand" (both) 1083 
 

  "From Aurora Leigh" 1092-1106

 
Monday, March 29  

Alfred, Lord Tennyson overview 
Tennyson headnote 1109-12
  "The Lady of Shalott"  1114-18

  "The Lotos-Eaters" 1119-23 

  "Ulysses" 11233-25

  "The Charge of the Light Brigade" 1188-90 

Robert Browning overview
Browning headnote 1248-52
  "Porphyria's Lover" 1252-53    

  "Soliloquy of the Spanish..." 1253-55    

  "My Last Duchess" 1255-56    

  "How They Brought the Good..." 1257-59
 
"Childe Roland to the Dark..." 1266-71

Discuss midterm
Wednesday, March 31   Matthew Arnold overview
Arnold headnote 1350-54    

  "The Buried Life" 1356-58    

  "The Scholar Gypsy" 1361-67    

  "Dover Beach" 1368
Midterm exam
Friday, April 2 Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
   
Monday, April 5

 

Charles Dickens overview
Great Expectations 1-162 (chs. 1-21)
 
Wednesday, April 7   Great Expectations 163-291 (chs. 22-38) Paper assigned
Monday, April 12 Paper proposals due Great Expectations 292-454 (ch. 39-end)
 
Wednesday, April 14 Congratulations Blue Devils!

Class canceled: routine doctor visit

Go Duke!
Monday, April 19  Paper due Bernard Shaw overview
Shaw headnote 1743-46    

  Mrs. Warren's Profession 1746-90

 
Wednesday, April 21

 

Joseph Conrad overview
Conrad headnote 1885-87  

  Heart of Darkness 1890-1947


W. B. Yeats overview

Yeats headnote 2019-22   

  "No Second Troy" 2029  

  "September 1913" 2030-31    

  "Easter 1916" 2031-33    

  "The Second Coming" 2036-37    

  "Leda and the Swan" 2039
  "Sailing to Byzantium" 2040  
 


 
Monday, April 26   James Joyce overview
Joyce headnote2163-68
  "Araby" 2168-72
  Handout: "Eveline"  

  "From Ulysses: ''Lestrygonians'" 2213-39


T. S. Eliot overview
Eliot headnote 2286-89
  "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 2289-93
  "The Waste Land" 2294-2308
  "The Hollow Men" 2309-11
  "Journey of the Magi" 2312-13
 
Wednesday, April 28     Final exam
  Paper corrections    

Note that this schedule of readings and assignments is tentative.  I will make additions and adjustments as need arises, giving ample notice in class and on the web when making changes in the schedule.