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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, 2nd edition (2011) NOTE: Some of the works required for this course are online at the publisher's web page. You must have a "code" to access this page. The "code" is on a card that comes with the textbook.
| Week of Month/Day | Due Monday | Due Thursday |
| September 3 | (Labor Day - No Classes Yet!) | First Day of Class |
| September 10 | Exeter Book Elegies: "The Wanderer" p. 52; "The Seafarer" p. 54 |
"Beowulf", parts 1 through 23, pp. 65-85.
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| September 17 | "Beowulf", parts 24 to end, pp. 85-106. | Read all of the Middle English Lyrics, pp. 129 - 134. |
| September 24 | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Fits 1 through 3, pp. 160-211. | "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Fits 4 and 5 (to end), pp. 211-224. |
| October 1 | Geoffrey Chaucer, "General Prolog" to The Canterbury Tales, pp. 235-251. | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wyf of Bath's Tale", pp. 313-319 |
| October 8 | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Prolog and Tale", pp. 322-332. | Medieval Drama: "Everyman" Available online at Broadview site |
| October 15 | Thomas Malory, from Morte Darthur: pp. 420-422; "The Vengeance of Sir Gawain", pp. 432-443; "The Dolorous Death and Departing out of this World of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere," pp. 445-461. | Sir Thomas More, Utopia, from Book I pp. 3 - 13. Available online at Broadview site |
| October 22 | Sir Thomas Wyatt: Sonnets 10; 29; 31; Ballad 80, pp. 533-535; Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: Three translations of Petrarch's Rime, pp. 542-3; "Wyatt Resteth Here", p. 544-5; Elizabethan Sonnets and Lyric, pp. 546-554.Edmund Spenser, from Amoretti pp. 644-647. | Edmund Spenser, "Epithalamion", pp. 648-653. |
| October 29 | No Classes - MSU Is Closed Due to Hurricane Sandy |
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| November 5 | Spenser, The Faerie Queene (see reading for next class) - the Introductory pages on Edmund Spenser and his epic The Faerie Queene, pp. 573-6. The "Bower of Bliss"; the "Garden of Adonis." | Edmund Spenser, from The Faerie Queene: Finish up the "Bower of Bliss"; the "Garden of Adonis". Main topic: the "Mutabilitie Cantos (not in our textbook - see Homework assignment) |
| November 12 | Catch-up Day! I think we will need one by this point in the course. No additional readings. We will discuss critical questions about the medieval British literature we have read so far. Review what we have done; come to class with your comments, questions, etc. | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus," Acts 1 and 2, pp. 751-767. |
| November 19 | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus,"
Acts 3 - 5, pp. 758-786. _________________ English History for students of English literature, I (time permitting) |
Thursday, November 22 - Thanksgiving Day - No Class! |
| November 26 | William Shakespeare, "Sonnets", pp. 795-808. | William Shakespeare, King Lear - all of it.. Available online at Broadview site (announced) |
| December 3 | John Donne, from Songs and Sonnets, pp.826-835; Robert Herrick, pp. 862-866; Andrew Marvell, pp. 879-890, especially the following: "The Nymph Complaining..."; "To His Coy Mistress"; "The Picture of Little T.C...."; "The Garden"; "An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland.". | John Milton, "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso", pp. 899-904; "Lycidas", pp. 904-908; Sonnets Nos. 7, 19, 23, pp. 908-909. |
| December 10 | John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, pp. 920-932. | Thursday, December 13 - Last Day of Class |
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