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NOTE: Schedule subject to revision. Always check which version you are consulting. This is Version 01.
Text is The Broadview Anthology of British Literature. Concise Edition, Volume A. (2007)
| Week of Month/Day | Due Monday | Due Thursday |
| September 5 | (Labor Day - No Classes Yet!) | First Day of Class |
| September 12 | Exeter Book Elegies: "The Wanderer" p. 51; "The Seafarer" p. 53 |
"Beowulf", parts 1 through 23, pp. 60-81.
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| September 19 | "Beowulf", parts 24 to end, pp. 81-100. | 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." |
| September 26 | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Fits 1 through 3, pp. 145-196. | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Fits 4 and 5 (to end), pp. 196-209. |
| October 3 | Geoffrey Chaucer, "General Prolog" to The Canterbury Tales, pp. 220-235. | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wyf of Bath's Tale", pp. 298-303 |
| October 10 | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Prolog and Tale", pp. 306-316.. | Medieval Drama: "Everyman", pp. 390-401. |
| October 17 | 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. | Sir Thomas More, Utopia, from Book I pp. 506-516. |
| October 24 | 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. | Edmund Spenser, from Amoretti pp. 651-654. |
| October 31 | Edmund Spenser, "Epithalamion", pp. 655-660. | In-Class Mid-Term Exam - 50 minutes. |
| November 7 | Edmund Spenser, from The Faerie Queene: The "Bower of Bliss"; the "Garden of Adonis"; the "Mutabilitie Cantos (not in our textbook - see Homework assignment) | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus," Acts 1 and 2, pp. 751-767. |
| November 14 | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus,"
Acts 3 - 5, pp. 767-779 _________________ English History for students of English literature, I (time permitting) |
English History for students of English literature, II |
| November 21 | William Shakespeare, "Sonnets", pp. 790-801. | Thanksgiving Day - No Class! |
| November 28 | William Shakespeare, King Lear, Acts 1-3, pp. 806-848. (Where there are parallel texts read the Quarto edition, right-hand side of page) |
Shakespeare, King Lear, Acts 4-5, pp. 849-88. |
| December 5 | 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. | John Milton, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso", pp. 977-982; "Lycidas", pp. 983-986; Sonnets Nos. 7, 19, 23, pp. 986-987. |
| December 12 | John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, pp. 998-1010. |
Last Day of Class |