Version 03 10.24.10
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NOTE: Schedule subject to revision. Always check which version you are consulting. This is Version 03.
Text is The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Concise Edition, Volume A. (2007)
We meet only once a week, but for a double class.
I have divided the HW assignments on the literature for each week into TWO assignments.
For each week:
the first assignment will be due Monday at 8 a.m. by email to me and to your group;
the second will be due Thursday at 8 a.m. by email to me and to your group.
| Week of Month/Day | Due Monday | Due Thursday |
| August 30 | First Day of Class |
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| September 6 | (Labor Day - No Classes Yet!) |
Exeter Book Elegies: "The Wanderer" p. 51; "The Seafarer" p. 53 |
| September 13 | "Beowulf", parts 1 through 23, pp. 60-81. | "Beowulf", parts 24 to end, pp. 81-100. |
| September 20 | Middle English Lyrics, pp. 123 ff.: "Sumer is icumen in"; "Foweles in the frith"; "I loved a child of this cuntree"; "I sing of a maiden"; "Adam lay ibounden"; "Of all creatures woman be best"; "My lefe is faren in a long." | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Fits 1 through 3, pp. 145-196. |
| September 27 | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Fits 4 and 5 (to end), pp. 196-209. | Geoffrey Chaucer, "General Prolog" to The Canterbury Tales, pp. 220-235. |
| October 4 | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wyf of Bath's Tale", pp. 298-303. | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Prolog and Tale", pp. 306-316. |
| October 11 | Medieval Drama: "Everyman", pp. 390-401. | Thomas Malory, from Morte Darthur: "from Merlin", pp. 404-406; "The Vengeance of Sir Gawain", pp. 416-427; "The Dolorous Death and Departing out of this World of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere," pp. 440-445. |
| October 18 | Sir Thomas More, Utopia, from Book I pp. 506-516. | Sir Thomas Wyatt: Sonnets 11; 31; Ballad 80, pp. 550-553; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Three translations of Petrarch's Rime, pp. 561-2; "Wyatt Resteth Here", p. 563; Elizabethan Sonnets and Lyric, pp. 566-572. |
| October 25 | Edmund Spenser, from Amoretti pp. 651-654. | Edmund Spenser, "Epithalamion", pp. 655-660. |
| November 1 | In-Class Mid-Term Exam - 50 minutes. Then, on to Spenser, The Faerie Queene (see reading for next class) - the Introductory pages on Edmund Spenser and his epic The Faerie Queene, pp. 573-6. |
Edmund Spenser, from The Faerie Queene: The "Bower of Bliss"; the "Garden of Adonis"; the "Mutabilitie Cantos (not in our textbook - see Homework assignment) |
| November 8 | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus," Acts 1 and 2, pp. 751-767. | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus,"
Acts 3 - 5, pp. 767-779 _________________ English History for students of English literature, I (time permitting) |
| November 15 | English History for students of English literature, II | William Shakespeare, "Sonnets", pp. 790-801. |
| November 22 | William Shakespeare, King Lear, Acts 1-3, pp. 806-848. (Where there are parallel texts read the Quarto edition, right-hand side of page) |
Thanksgiving Day - No Class! |
| November 29 | Shakespeare, King Lear, Acts 4-5, pp. 849-88. (Where there are parallel texts read the Quarto edition, right-hand side of page) |
John Donne, from Songs and Sonnets, pp. 905-913; Robert Herrick, pp. 941-945; Andrew Marvell, "The Nymph Complaining..."; "To His Coy Mistress"; "The Picture of Little T.C...."; "The Garden"; "An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland," pp. 960-969. |
| December 6 | John Milton, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso", pp. 977-982; "Lycidas", pp. 983-986; Sonnets Nos. 7, 19, 23, pp. 986-987. | John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, pp. 998-1010. |
| December 13 | Last Day of Class |