English 4500 schedule, spring 2009

Updated 4/10/09

Day/Date Assignments due Readings due In class
Wednesday, January 7 Student info (online)

Course description
2000-4000 grades and grading
A. E. Housman 1948-53

Introduction to course
Simple Stuff
Golden rules 1-10 
Monday, January 12 Drop/add ends    
Wednesday, January 14

 

Nuggets 1-10
Thomas Hardy 1851-52
  "On the Western Circuit" 1852-68
  "Hap" 1868-69
  "Neutral Tones" 1869
  "The Darkling Thrush" 1891
  "Channel Firing" 1877-78
  "The Convergence of the Twain" 1878-79
  "Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?" 1879-80
  "During Wind and Rain" 1883-84
  "In Time of 'The Breaking of Nations'" 1884
  "He Never Expected Much" 1884-85
Joseph Conrad 1885-87
  "Preface, The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'" 1887-89
  "Heart of Darkness" 1890-1947

 
Wednesday, January 21   Quotes and documentation 1-5
World War I poets 1955-95 		 
Wednesday, January 28   Word problems
Modernist Manifestos 1996-2019
Some basic elements of poetry
W. B. Yeats 2019-22
  "Introduction" 2053-58
  Yeats poems 2022-2052 		 
Wednesday, Feb. 4   On plagiarism
James Joyce 2163-68
  "Araby" 2168-72
  Ulysses excerpts 2200-39
  Finnegan's Wake sample 2239-43
Handout: "Eveline"		  
Wednesday, Feb. 11   Virginia Woolf 2080-82
  "The Mark on the Wall" 2082-87
  "Professions for Women" 2152-55
  Jacob's Room 1-55 		 
Wednesday, Feb. 18   Jacob's Room 56-137 Paper 1 assigned
Wednesday, Feb. 25

Paper proposal 1

 T. S. Eliot 2286-89
T. S. Eliot overview
  "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, March 4 Paper 1
Last day to withdraw 
with "W" grade		 D. H. Lawrence 2243-45
  "Odour of Chrysanthemums" 2245-58
  "The Horse Dealer's Daughter" 2258-69 		Midterm
Monday, March 9-
Saturday, March 14		 Spring break Spring break Spring break
Wednesday, March 18   Samuel Beckett 2393-2420
Handout: Happy Days 		 
Wednesday, March 25  

Katherine Mansfield 2332-56
W. H. Auden 2421-22
  "Lullaby" 2423-24
  "Musee des Beaux Arts" 2428-29
  "The Unknown Citizen" 2431-32
  "September 1, 1939" 2432-34
Dylan Thomas 2444-50
  "Poem in October" 2447-48
  "Fern Hill" 2448-50
  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" 2450
World War II poets 2451-60

 
Wednesday, April 1 Paper 1 corrections Doris Lessing 2543-65
Nadine Gordimer 2574-78
Philip Larkin 2565-74
Thom Gunn 2582-86 		Paper 2 assigned
Wednesday, April 8 Paper proposal 2 Packed red cells! Class canceled
Wednesday, April 15 Paper 2

Harold Pinter 2601-22
Tom Stoppard 2752-2820

  
Wednesday, April 22   Atonement 1-175  
Wednesday, April 29   Atonement 179-351  
       
Final exam
Monday, May 4, 3:30-5:30