Dr. Yoder
English 3331.02     Major British Writers I     Fall 2009

Week 1 (Aug. 20)
Th     Intro

Week 2 (Aug. 25-27)
T     Founding Myths: Trojan Brutus pp. 117-128
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Week 3 (Sept. 1-3)
T     Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The General Prologue,ll. 1-100, 447-478, 717-860
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Week 4 (Sept. 8-10)
T     Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
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Week 5 (Sept. 15-17)
T     Everyman
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Week 6 (Sept. 22-24)
T     Edmund Spenser, "Epithalamion"
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Week 7 (Sept. 29-Oct. 1)
T     William Shakespeare, King Lear
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Week 8 (Oct. 6-8)
T     William Shakespeare, King Lear
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Week 9 (Oct. 13-15)
T     Metaphysical Poets
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Week 10 (Oct. 20-22)
T     John Milton, Lycidas
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Week 11 (Oct. 27-29)
T     John Milton, Paradise Lost Book IX
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Week 12 (Nov. 3-5)
T     John Dryden, "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham"
Th     John Wilmot, "The Imperfect Enjoyment"; Aphra Behn, "The Disappointment"

Week 13 (Nov. 10-12)
T     Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Part 4, A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms
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Week 14 (17-19)
T      Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
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Week 15 (Nov. 24-26)
T     Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Th     THANKSGIVING BREAK -- NO CLASS

Week 16 (Dec. 1-3)
T     Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Th     LAST DAY OF CLASS     

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