Dr. Yoder
English 3332.01 Major British Writers II Fall 2006
Week 1 (Aug. 29-31)
T Intro
Th I will be attending the conference of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR), so there will be no class today. However, you should read the following poems and post a response to the course email listserve no later than Sunday night at midnight. You should consider what image of England emerges from these readings. This will count as your journal for Week 2; it should be informal and roughly 250 words.
William Blake, "London"
Dorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journals, May 14, 1800
William Wordsworth, "London 1802"
P.B. Shelley, "To Wordsworth," "England 1819"
Felicia Hemans, "England's Dead"
Week 2 (Sept. 5-7)
T Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" (be sure to read the headnote)
Stevie Smith, "Thoughts about the Person from Porlock"
Th Coleridge: "This Lime-Tree Bower, My Prison"
Dorothy Wordsworth: excerpts from Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals
William Wordswsorth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
Week 3 (Sept. 12-14)
Our primary focus for the week will be "Tintern Abbey," but you should read all of the poems listed below. These will provide a larger context for our discussion of "Tintern."
T William Wordsworth, "We Are Seven," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Michael," "A slumber did my spirit seal," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "Elegiac Stanzas," "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," The Prelude Bk. 12: 208-335, sonnets
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, excerpts from Biographia Literaria (Chaps. 13-14)
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Week 4 (Sept. 19-21)
T Romantic Touchstones: (The Romantic and Victorian Touchstones are intended to introduce you to important poems by the major writers of each period. Even with such a small sampling, we obviously will not be able to discuss all the poems in depth, but we will be able to discuss trends, similarities and differences among the various poets. You should try to have all of the poems read for Tuesday, so that our discussions can call upon a variety of detail.)
William Blake, "The Lamb," "The Tyger," "The Chimney Sweeper" (both), "Holy Thursday" (both), "And did these feet"
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Sky-Lark"
John Keats, "Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame sans Merci," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode to a Nightingale"
Lord Byron: from Don Juan, pp. 704-717
Th Paper 1 Due
Week 5 (Sept. 26-28)
T Jane Austen: Persuasion
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Week 6 (Oct. 3-5)
T Jane Austen: Persuasion
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Week 7 (Oct. 10-12)
T Thomas Carlyle, "The Everlasting Nay," "The Center of Indifference," "The Everlasting
Yea"
John Stuart Mill, from Autobiography, Chap. 5
Th Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach," "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse"
Week 8 (Oct. 17-19)
T Victorian Touchstones:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Lady of Shallott," "Ulysses"
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess," "Andrea Del Sarto"
Lewis Carroll, "Jabberwocky," "The Walrus and the Carpenter"
Gerard Manly Hopkins, "God's Grandeur," "The Windhover," "Pied Beauty,"
"Carrion Comfort," "No Worst, There is None," "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord"
Thomas Hardy, "Hap," "Neutral Tones," "A Broken Appointment," "The Convergence of
the Twain"
Th
Week 9 (Oct. 24-26)
T Christina Rossetti: "In An Artist's Studio," "An Apple-Gathering," "Winter: My Secret,"
"Goblin Market," "No, Thank You, John," "Promises Like Pie-Crust"
The Woman Question, pp. 1719-39
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Week 10 (Oct. 31-Nov. 2)
T Bram Stoker: Dracula
Bibliographic Essay Due
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Week 11 (Nov. 7-9)
T Bram Stoker: Dracula
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Week 12 (Nov. 14-16)
T Bram Stoker: Dracula
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Week 13 (Nov. 21-23)
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Th THANKSGIVING
Week 14 (Nov. 28-30)
T James Joyce: [Lestrygonians] from Ulysses
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Week 15 (Dec. 5-7)
T Claude McKay: "Old England," "If We Must Die"
Hugh MacDiarmid: Readings in the section
Louise Bennett: Readings in the section
Wole Soyinka: "Telephone Conversation"
John Agard: "Listen Mr Oxford Don"
Salman Rushdie: [English Is an Indian Literary Language]
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Week 16 (Dec. 12 -- Last Day of Class)
T Philip Larkin: "Church Going," "High Windows"
Dec. 14, Th Final Paper Due, 5pm
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