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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 Tuesday | Due Thursday |
| January 23 | First Day of Class |
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| January 28 | Exeter Book Elegies: "The Wanderer" p. 52; "The Seafarer" p. 54 |
"Beowulf", parts 1 through 23, pp. 65-85.
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| February 4 | "Beowulf", parts 24 to end, pp. 85-106. | Read all of the Middle English Lyrics, pp. 129 - 134. |
| February 11 | "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. |
| February 25 | Geoffrey Chaucer, "General Prolog" to The Canterbury Tales, pp. 235-251. | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Wyf of Bath's Tale", pp. 313-319 |
| March 4 | Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Pardoner's Prolog and Tale", pp. 322-332. | |
| Note: We will NOT cover these materials (at right) because we have lost a week of classes due to snowstorms. | 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 |
| March 10 - 16 | Spring Break - No Classes |
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| March 18 | Medieval Drama: "Everyman" Available online at Broadview site | 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. |
| March 25 | Edmund Spenser, "Epithalamion", pp. 648-653. | 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." |
| April 1 | 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) | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus," Acts 1 and 2, pp. 751-767. |
| April 8 | Christopher Marlowe, "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus,"
Acts 3 - 5, pp. 758-786. _________________ English History for students of English literature, I (time permitting) |
English History for students of English literature, II (time permitting) |
| April 15 | William Shakespeare, "Sonnets", pp. 795-808. | William Shakespeare, King Lear - all of it.. Available online at Broadview site (announced) |
| April 22 | 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. |
| April 29 | John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, pp. 920-932. | Thursday, May 1 - Last Day of Our Class |
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