English 202-39343 Syllabus (Spring '98)

Follow the links in the "author/event" column below for background information and general notes on the different major periods and authors we are exploring this semester.  Print and read each of these pages in turn before doing the readings: you are responsible for all of these "handouts."

Day/Date Author/Event Titles Pages
Thursday,    
January 15

Introduction to course
The Romantic Era  
Romanticism  

William Blake

"All Religions Are One"  
"There Is No Natural Religion" (a & b)  
"The Divine Image"  
"The Human Abstract"  
"A Divine Image"		 26  
26-27  
31-32  
39-40  
41


Tuesday,    
January 20


William Blake 

 [Norton Introduction]   
"Introduction" & "Introduction"  
"The Little Black Boy"   
"The Lamb" & "The Tyger"  
"The Chimney Sweeper" (two poems)  
"The Clod & the Pebble"  
"The Garden of Love"  
"The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"		 18-20  
28, 33-34  
30  
29-30, 37-38  
30-31, 35-36  
35  
38  
53-64
Thursday,    
January 22		 Mary Wollstonecraft    
   

William Wordsworth

[Introduction]  
From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman  

[Introduction]  
"I wandered lonely as a cloud"  
"My heart leaps up"

98-101  
101-19  
 
126-29  
186-87  
187 
Tuesday,    
January 27		 William Wordsworth  "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"  
"Simon Lee" & "We Are Seven"  
"Lines" (Tintern Abbey)  
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"  
"The world is too much with us"		 140-52  
129-31, 132-33  
136-40  
187-93  
199-200
Thursday,    
January 29		 Samuel Taylor Coleridge  [Introduction]  
"The Eolian Harp"  
"This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison"  
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"  
"Frost at Midnight"  
"Kubla Khan"		 323-26  
326-28  
328-30  
330-46  
365-66  
346-49
Tuesday,    
February 3		 John Keats [Introduction]  
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"  
"The Eve of St. Agnes"  
"La Belle Dame sans Merci"  
"Ode to a Nightingale"  
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"		 766-69  
769  
777-86  
787-88  
790-92  
792-94
Thursday,    
February 5		 Percy Bysshe Shelley [Introduction]   
"Mont Blanc"  
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"  
"Stanzas Written in Dejection"  
"A Song: 'Men of England'"  
"England in 1819"  
"Ode to the West Wind"		 643-46  
666-69  
670-71  
672-73  
673-74  
674  
676-78
Tuesday,    
February 10		 Mary  Shelley Frankenstein v-x, 1-81
Thursday,    
February 12		 Mary  Shelley Frankenstein 81-166
Tuesday,    
February 17		 Introduction to Victorians 
 
  
Thomas Carlyle		 "The Victorian Age"  

[Introduction]  
"The Everlasting No"  
"The Everlasting Yea"

891-910  

910-15  
932-37  
944-51

Thursday,    
February 19		 John Stuart Mill   
 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

[Introduction]  
"From The Subjection of Women"  

[Introduction]  
"To George Sand" (both)  
"From Aurora Leigh"

992-94  
1012-22  

1029-30  
1031  
1034-48

Tuesday,    
February 24		 Alfred, Lord Tennyson  [Introduction]  
"The Lady of Shalott"  
"The Lotos-Eaters"  
"Locksley Hall"  
"The Charge of the Light Brigade"  
"From Idylls of the King: 'The Passing  of  Arthur'"		 1052-56  
1059-63  
1063-67   
1073-79  
1133-34  
1140-41,1154-65
Thursday,    
February 26		 Robert Browning [Introduction]   
"Porphyria's Lover"   
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"   
"My Last Duchess"   
"How They Brought the Good News..."  
"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"   
"A Woman's Last Word"		 1182-87   
1187-88   
1188-90   
1190-92  
1194-95   
1206-11  
1233-34
Monday, 
March 2		 Review Session @ 7:30 p.m. Review Session @ 7:30 p.m. in H.S.S. 70
Tuesday,    
March 3		 Matthew Arnold [Introduction]   
"The Forsaken Merman"    
"The Buried Life"   
"The Scholar Gypsy"   
"Dover Beach"		 1344-49   
1349-52   
1354-56   
1359-66   
1366-67 
Thursday,    
March 5		 Midterm exam
Tuesday,    
March 10		 Charles Dickens Hard Times  v-xvii, 1-102
Thursday,    
March 12		 Charles Dickens Hard Times 103--204
Tuesday,    
March 17		 Charles Dickens Hard Times 205-277
Thursday,    
March 19		 Charles Dickens Hard Times  
March 23-27 Spring break Spring break Spring break
Tuesday,    
March 31		 Oscar Wilde [Introduction]  
The Importance of Being Earnest		 1616-18 
1628-67
Thursday,    
April 2		 Introduction to 20th Century  

Bernard Shaw

 "The Twentieth Century"   

[Introduction]   
Mrs. Warren's Profession

1683-91 
  
1711-14   
1714-54
Tuesday,   
April 7		 Joseph Conrad [Introduction]   
Heart of Darkness		 1754-56   
1758-1817
Thursday,    
April 9		 W. B. Yeats [Introduction]   
"No Second Troy" 
"September 1913"   
"To a Shade" 
"Easter 1916"   
"The Second Coming"   
"Sailing to Byzantium"   
"Leda and the Swan"		 1859-63   
1872 
1873-74   
1874 
1878-80   
1880-81   
1883-84   
1884
Tuesday,    
April 14		 Virginia Woolf [Introduction]   
"The Mark on the Wall"   
"Professions for Women"   
"The Legacy"		 1915-16
1916-21 
1986-90    
1998-2002
Thursday,    
April 16		 James Joyce [Introduction] 
"Eveline" & "The Boarding House"   
"From Ulysses: ''Lestrygonians'"		 2003-6  
Handout 
2050-76
Tuesday,    
April 21		 Papers Due   
Samuel Beckett		 [Introduction]   
Happy Days		 2242-43   
2243-61
Thursday,    
April 23		 T. S. Eliot  [Introduction]   
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"   
"The Waste Land"   
"Journey of the Magi"		 2136-39   
2140-43   
2147-60   
2160-61 
Tuesday,    
April 28		 D. H. Lawrence

Doris Lessing   

[Introduction]   
"Odor of Chrysanthemums"
[Introduction]   
"To Room Nineteen"   		 2080-83   
2083-96
2300-1   
2301-23 
Thursday,    
April 30		 Tom Stoppard [Introduction]   
The Real Inspector Hound		 2395   
2396-2421
Tuesday, May 5 Review Session Review Session @ 12:40 in HSS 70
Friday,    
May 8,   
2:45-4:45		 Final Exam  

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