Dr. Yoder
English 3332.01 Major British Writers II Spring 2007
Week 1 (Jan. 22)
General Introduction
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 (Jan. 29)
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."
William Wordsworth: "We Are Seven," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Resolution and Independence," "A slumber did my spirit seal," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "Elegiac Stanzas," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," The Prelude Bk. 12: 208-335, sonnets
Dorothy Wordsworth: excerpts from Alfoxden and Grasmere Journals
Week 3 (Feb. 5)
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.)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" (be sure to read the headnote), "Frost at Midnight"
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"
Week 4 (Feb. 12)
Lord Byron: The Giaour: available for download here or here.
Friday Feb. 16: Paper 1 Due: Paper Assignments are here.
Week 5 (Feb. 19)
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Week 6 (Feb. 26)
Jane Austen: Persuasion
Week 7 (Mar. 5)
Thomas Carlyle: "The Everlasting Nay," "The Center of Indifference," "The Everlasting Yea"
John Stuart Mill: from Autobiography, Chap. 5
Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach," "Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse"
Week 8 (Mar. 12)
Victorian Touchstones:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shallott," "Ulysses"
Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess," "Andrea Del Sarto"
Lewis Carroll: "Jabberwocky," "The White Knight's Song"
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 ofthe Twain"
Week 9 (Mar. 19)
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. 1581-1606
Week 10 (Mar. 26-30)
SPRING BREAK
Week 11 (Apr. 2)
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Bibliographic Essay Due: Paper Assignments are here.
Week 12 (Apr. 9)
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Week 13 (Apr.16)
Bram Stoker: Dracula
Week 14 (Apr. 23)
James Joyce: [Lestrygonians] from Ulysses
Week 15 (Apr. 30) Last Day of Class
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]
Monday, May 7: Final Paper Due, 5pm: Paper Assignments are here.
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