English 4405 schedule, fall 2013

Updated 12/3/13

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.

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Tuesday, August 20  

Course description
2000-4000 grades and grading

Introduction to course
Simple Stuff
The Romantic Era
Romanticism  
 

Thursday, August 22

Student info form (online)
Drop/add ends

Mary Wollstonecraft overview  
Wollstonecraft headnote: 208-11   
  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 211-39

 
Tuesday, August 27   William Blake overview
Blake headnote 112-16
  "All Religions Are One" 116
  

  "There Is No Natural Religion" (a & b) 116-17

From Songs of Innocence and Experience:
  "Introduction" & "Introduction" 118-19, 125
  "The Lamb" & "The Tyger" 120, 129-30
  "The Chimney Sweeper" (both) 121-22, 128  
 
"The Divine Image" 122
  "A Divine Image" 135
 
Thursday, August 29   William Blake:
  "The Clod & the Pebble" 127
  "The Garden of Love" 131

  "
The Human Abstract" 133  
  "The Book of Thel" 135-40
  "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" 148-59
 
Tuesday, Sept. 3   Gothic excerpts: 584-612
Northanger Abbey 1-30 (chaps. 1-7)
 
Thursday, Sept. 5   Northanger Abbey 31-102 (chs. 8-18, or
   through Vol. II, ch. 3)
 
Tuesday, Sept. 10   Northanger Abbey 103-79 (chs. 19-31, or to
   the end)
 
Thursday, Sept. 12   William Wordsworth overview
Wordsworth headnote 270-72
  "Simon Lee" 275-78
  "We Are Seven" 278-79
  "The Thorn" 282-88
  "Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey" 288-92
  "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" 292-304
 
Tuesday, Sept. 17   William Wordsworth:
  "I wandered lonely as a cloud" 334-35
 
"My heart leaps up" 335
  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" 335-41
  "The world is too much with us" 347
  "Mutability" 348
  "Resolution and Independence" 330-34
 
Thursday, Sept. 19   William Wordsworth:
 The Prelude excerpts 349-78
 
Tuesday, Sept. 24   William Wordsworth:
  "Michael" 320-30
  The Prelude excerpts 378-402
 
Thursday, Sept. 26   Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview
Coleridge headnote 437-39    

  "The Eolian Harp" 439-41   

  "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" 441-43   

  "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 443-59 

  "Frost at Midnight" 477-79
 
Tuesday, October 1   Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  "Kubla Khan" 459-62
  "Christabel" 462-77
  "Dejection: An Ode" 479-83
  "Table Talk Specimens" 505-8
 
Thursday, October 3   Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
  Biographia Literaria excepts 487-99
  "Lectures on Shakespeare" 499-502
Paper 1 assigned
Discuss midterm
Tuesday, October 8     Midterm exam
Thursday, October 10   Sir Walter Scott headnote 418-20
  "The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Intro" 420-22
  "Wandering Willie's Tale" 423-37
George Gordon, Lord Byron headnote 612-16
  Childe Harold's Pilgrimage excerpts 620-37
 
Tuesday, October 15 Paper proposal Lord Byron:
  "She Walks in Beauty" 617-18
  "So, we'll go no more a roving" 620
  Don Juan excerpts 672-726
 
Wednesday, Oct. 16 Midterm last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade
   
Thursday, October 17

 

Frankenstein v-x, 1-54 (chs. 1-7)  
Tuesday, October 22 Paper 1 due Frankenstein 54-114 (chs. 8-18)  
Thursday, October 24   Frankenstein 114-66 (chs. 19-end)  
Tuesday, October 29   Charles Lamb headnote 509-10
  "Detached Thoughts on Books . . ." 514-19  
  "Old China" 519-23
William Hazlitt headnote 546-47
  "My First Acquaintance with Poets" 551-64
  Online: "On Gusto"
Thomas De Quincey headnote 565-66
  "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater 567-80
 
Thursday, October 31     Long Live The Rocky Horror Picture Show!
Tuesday, November 5   Percy Bysshe Shelley overview
Shelley headnote 748-51
  "Mutability" 751-52
  "Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude" 752-69
  "Mont Blanc" 770-73
  "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" 773-76
  "Ozymandias" 776
  "Stanzas Written in Dejection" 778-79
 
Thursday, November 7  

Percy Bysshe Shelley:
  "The Mask of Anarchy" 779-89
 Online:  "A Song: 'Men of England'
  "England in 1819" 790
  "Ode to the West Wind" 791-93
  "To a Sky-Lark" 834-36
  "A Defence of Poetry" excerpt 856-69

 
Tuesday, November 12  

Percy Bysshe Shelley:
  Prometheus Unbound 793-832 

 
Thursday, November 14   Felicia Dorothea Hemans headnote 884-85
  "England's Dead" 885-86
  "Casabianca" 886-87
  "The Homes of England" 888-89
  "Corinne at the Capitol" 889-90
  "Properzia Rossi" 890-93
  "Indian Woman's Death Song" 894-95
  "A Spirit's Return" 895-900
 
Tuesday, November 19 Paper 1 corrections Keats headnote 901-3    
  "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" 904
  "Sleep and Poetry" 904-6  
  "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" 906
  Endymion excerpts 906-10
  "The Eve of St. Agnes" 912-22
  Letters 965-74
Paper 2 assigned
Thursday, November 21 Paper proposal John Keats:
  "La Belle Dame sans Merci" 923-24
  "Ode to Psyche" 925-27  
  "Ode to a Nightingale" 927-29
  "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 930-31
 
Monday-Friday,
November 25-29
Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday Thanksgiving holiday
Tuesday, December 3 Paper 2 due John Keats:
  "Ode on Melancholy" 931-33
  "Ode on Indolence" 933-34
  "Lamia" 935-50
  "To Autumn" 951-52
 
Thursday, December 5   John Keats:
  "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream" 952-64
Letitia Elizabeth Landon headnote 996-97
  "Love's Last Lesson" 997-99
  "Lines of Life" 1000-2
  "The Fairy of the Fountains" 1002-14
Discuss exam
       
Final exam
Tuesday, Dec. 10
1:00-3:00 p.m.