| 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 |