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Reading Schedule |
3/28 |
T |
Introduction to the course |
3/31 |
F |
Wordsworth: Selections from Lyrical Ballads
TBA; Preface to LB, 431-59; Dickens: Bleak House, Part 1,
13-63 |
4/4 |
T |
Wordsworth: “Lucy” Poems, 78-81; My Heart Leaps Up,
To H. C., Ode: Intimations of Immortality, 138-45; Michael, 118-31 |
4/7 |
F |
Wordsworth: The Prelude, Books 1, 5-11, 14;
BH, Parts 2 &3, 63-165 |
4/11 |
T |
Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Cantos
1 & 3 |
4/14 |
F |
Byron: Ode to Napoleon, 308; The Destruction
of Sennacherib, Napoleon’s Farewell, From the French, 355-58; Prometheus,
394; Manfred, 463-506; BH, Parts 4 & 5, 165-265 |
4/18 |
T |
Macaulay: Review of Southey’s Colloquies,
VP 59-69; Carlyle: selections from Sartor Resartus
and Past and Present (handout and VP 21-51); Barrett Browning,
“Carlyle,” AL 391-99 |
4/21 |
F |
Clough: Amours de Voyage, VV 296-337;
BH, Parts 6 & 7, 265-366 |
4/25 |
T |
FitzGerald: The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,
VV 115-30; Robert Browning: My Last Duchess, VV 207; The Bishop
Orders His Tomb, Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, 216-20; Fra Lippo Lippi, 222-32;
Two in the Campagna, 253-55 |
4/28 |
F |
Ellis: from Women of England, 53-57;
Greg: “Why Are Women Redundant?”, 157-63; Martineau: from
Eastern
Life, Present and Past, 93-99; Jameson: from
Winter
Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada (handout); BH, Parts 8-10, 366-520 |
5/2 |
T |
Barrett Browning: The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s
Point, VV 93-102; Aurora Leigh, Book 1; Stodart: “Poetry
and the Poetess,” AL 387-91 |
5/5 |
F |
Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh, Books
2-4; Norton excerpts by Woolf, Moers, Friedman, and Cooper; BH, Parts 11
& 12, 520-620 |
5/9 |
T |
Barrett Browning: AL, Books 5-9; Norton excerpts
by David, Zanona, and Leighton; Mother and Poet, My Heart and I, VV 102-08;
Reactions to Tea with Mussolini |
5/12 |
F |
Arnold: “The Function of Criticism at the Present
Time” (handout), from Culture and Anarchy, 337-49; Smiles:
from Self-Help, 199-205; Spencer: “Progress”, 295-303; BH,
Parts 13 & 14, 620-719 |
5/16 |
T |
Disraeli: “Conservative and Liberal Principles”,
115-19; Gladstone: “England’s Mission”, 183-87; Burton: “A
Day Amongst the Fans”, 313-17; Kingsley: from Travels in West
Africa, 439-48; Pater: from History of the Renaissance,
401-08; Symons: “The Decadent Movement in Literature”, 449-54 |
5/19 |
F |
Dickens: BH Conclusion, Parts 15-20, 719-985 |
5/23 |
T |
Hardy: Jude the Obscure, Parts 1-3 (1-205) |
5/26 |
F |
Hardy: Jude, Parts 4-6 (209-431); Kipling:
selections from Barrack-room Ballads, VV 750-55 |
5/30 |
T |
Kipling: Kim; Course conclusion; Exam
distributed; Paper due |
6/5 |
M |
Final Exam due at my office by 5:00 |