ENG 1210 - Schedule of Readings WEEK 1 (21-25 Aug) Introduction and Early English Literature Monday Introduction – Syllabus Wednesday Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Literature (pp. 1-6; 22-23), Pearl Poet, "The Dream of the Rood" Friday Pearl Poet, "The Dream of the Rood" WEEK 2 (28 Aug - 1 Sept) Middle English: Chaucer Monday Introduction to Middle English Literature (pp. 10-14) Chaucer (pp. 165-170) and "The General Prologue" Wednesday "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" (pp. 207-226) Friday Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Tale" (pp. 226-234) WEEK 3 (4-8 Sept) Middle English: Religious Texts Monday Labor Day: No Class Wednesday Julian of Norwich (pp. 282-285) and Margery Kempe (pp. 285-90) Friday York Crucifixion Play WEEK 4 (11-15 Sept) The Sixteenth Century: Shakespeare and His Contemporaries Monday The Sixteenth Century (pp. 319-330); "The English Bible" Wednesday William Shakespeare, (pp. 493-496); Shakespeare's Sonnets 3, 12, 15, 18, 116, 130 Friday Ben Jonson, "On the Death of my First-born Son," "To The Memory of My Beloved...," "To Penshurst" WEEK 5 (18-22 Sept) Early Seventeenth Century Monday John Donne, "The Flea" "The Sun Rising," "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning," Holy Sonnet X: "Death Be Not Proud," and Holy Sonnet XIV: "Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God" Wednesday John Milton (pp. 693-697),"When I Consider How My Light Is Spent," "On Shakespeare" and from Areopagitica Friday MoCAT Evaluations Due, Paper 1 Due John Milton, from Paradise Lost WEEK 6 (25-29 Sept) The Restoration Monday The Restoration and Eighteenth Century (pp. 853-877); Rochester, "The Disabled Debauchee," "The Imperfect Enjoyment" (pp. 917-919) and Aphra Behn, "The Disappointment" (pp. 922-927) Wednesday Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (pp. 927-950) Friday Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (pp. 950-970) WEEK 7 (2-6 Oct) Eighteenth Century Monday Jonathan Swift (pp. 971-973) and from Gulliver's Travels (pp. 975-991) Wednesday Jonathan Swift from Gulliver's Travels (pp. 991-1016) Friday Eliza Haywood, Fantomina (pp. 1178-1196) WEEK 8 (9-13 Oct) Eighteenth Century Monday Pope (pp. 1120-1123), The Rape of the Lock (pp. 1136-1144) Wednesday The Rape of the Lock (pp. 1144-1155) Friday Midterm Exam Instructor at Conference WEEK 9 (16-20 Oct) Eighteenth Century Monday Samuel Johnson (pp. 1210-1212); from Dictionary (pp. 1291-1297) and Rambler No. 4 (pp. 1285-1287); Wednesday Johnson, Rambler No. 60; James Boswell (pp. 1313-1329) Friday Hogarth, "Marriage A La Mode" WEEK 10 (23-27 Oct) Eighteenth Century: Women Writers Monday Mary Wollstonecraft (pp. 1456-1484) and Anna Laetitia Barbauld "The Rights of Woman" (pp. 1388-89; 1393-94) Wednesday Frances Burney (pp. 1349-1362) Friday Class Cancelled - Instructor at Conference WEEK 11 (27 Oct - 3 Nov) Romanticism Monday The Romantic Period (pp. 1363-1387) and William Blake (pp. 1496-1409; 1410-1425) Wednesday William Wordsworth (pp. 1484-1490), from Preface to Lyrical Ballads (pp. 1491-1506) Friday Dorothy Wordsworth (pp. 1593-1608) WEEK 12 (6-10 Nov) Victorians Monday The Victorian Age (pp. 1885-1906); Elizabeth Barrett Browning (pp. 1921-1922) "The Cry of the Children" (pp. 1922-1926) Wednesday Thomas Carlyle (pp. 1908-9120) Friday Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb" and "Love Among the Ruins" (pp. 2058-2064) WEEK 13 (13-17 Nov) Monday Oscar Wilde - The Importance of Being Earnest (pp. 2221-63) Wednesday Gerard Manley Hopkins - "God's Grandeur" (2160), "Pied Beauty" (2162), "Spring" (2162), "Binsey Poplars" (2163-4), "Spring and Fall" (2165) Friday Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own" (pp. 2435-93) WEEK 14 (20-24 Nov) THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS WEEK 15 (27 Nov - 1 Dec) Twentieth Century Poetry Monday The Twentieth Century and After (pp. 2293-2314) and Thomas Hardy, "The Convergence of the Twain" Wednesday William Butler Yeats (pp. 2386-2389) "The Second Coming" (pp. 2402-2403) and "Byzantium" Friday T.S. Eliot (pp. 2607-2610) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (pp. 2610-2614) Paper 2 Due WEEK 16 (4-8 Dec) British Literature Beyond Britain Monday James Joyce, "Araby" (pp. 2498-2507) Wednesday Salman Rushdie, "The Prophet's Hair" (pp. 2813-2824) Friday Derek Wolcott, from Omeros (pp. 2774-7) Final Exam: TBA

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