Schedule

Week I
8/25	Introduction to course
8/27	Overview of the period and its literature Milestones in Early English History [PDF] Introduction to Beowulf Notes on Beowulf [PDF]
8/29	Beowulf: through Grendel sequence Stop at Page 34, Line 1250	Quiz Alternate
Week II
9/1	No Class: Labor Day
9/3	Beowulf: to End	Quiz Alternate
9/5	Beowulf discussion Medieval Poetry Edward The Twa Corbies
Week III
9/8	The Canterbury Tales General Prologue Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale	Quiz Alternate
9/10
9/12
Week IV	Please print the poems and bring them to class.
9/15	Renaissance Poetry Christopher Marlowe. The Passionate Shepherd to his Love. Sir Walter Ralegh. The Nymph's Reply. Thomas Wyatt Farewell, Love, and all thy Laws Forever They Flee from Me that Sometime did Me Seek Whose List to Hunt, I Know where is an Hind Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Alas! So All Things Now do Hold their Peace On the Death of Sir T. W. the Elder
9/17	Renaissance Poetry Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet I Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet XXXI Astrophel and Stella, Sonnet LXXI William Shakespeare's Sonnets When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought That Time of Year Thou mayst in me Behold My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing like the Sun
9/19	Edmund Spenser. The Faerie Queene, Book I, Canto 11.	Essay Essay Notes
Week V
9/22	Library Orientation	Library
9/24	Continued discussion of The Faerie Queene
9/26	Introduction to Shakespeare, Renaissance stagecraft, the texts, and The Merchant of Venice.
Week VI
9/29	The Merchant of Venice	Quiz Alternate
10/1	Continued discussion
10/3	Film: The Merchant of Venice (scenes)
Week VII
10/6	Abstract of either "How to Read The Merchant of Venice without Being Heterosexist" by Alan Sinfield, or "'Mislike Me Not for My Complexion': Whose Mislike? Portia's? Shakespeare's Or That of His Age?" by R. W. Desai.	Article Abstract of Sinfield or Desai
10/8	Poems of John Donne The Sun Rising The Ecstasy Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Batter My Heart, Three-Person'd God Death, be not Proud This is my Play's Last Scene Introduction to Paradise Lost, especially Book IX
10/10	No Class: MWASECS Conference
Week VIII
10/13	No Class: Fall Recess
10/15	Enjambment Handout Milton's Prosody
10/17	Paradise Lost, Book IX Paradise Lost, continued. Introduction to Aphra Behn's Oroonoko	Essay
Week IX
10/20	Paradise Lost, continued.
10/22	Aphra Behn. Oroonoko (complete)	Quiz Alternate
10/24	Oroonoko, cont. Introduction to Defoe and the novel.
Week X
10/27	Spengemann, "Earliest American Novel": 199-209	Abstract First Annotation Due
10/29	Daniel Defoe. Journal of the Plague Year Read to the top of Page 99	Quiz Alternate
10/31
Week XI
11/3	Daniel Defoe. Journal of the Plague Year, pp. 99 - End.
11/5
11/7	Zimmerman, "H. F.'s Meditations," 285-295	Abstract
Week XII
11/10	Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels, Book I	Quiz Alternate
11/12	Gulliver's Travels, Book IV	Quiz Alternate
11/14	Hunter, "Gulliver's Travels and the Novel," 352-357. Weinbrot, "Swift, Horace, and Virgil," 500-504	Abstracts of both articles
Week XIII
11/17	No class
11/19	Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism, Part II
11/21	William Cowper Sonnet to William Wilburforce Light Shining out of Darkness The Castaway
Week XIV
11/24	Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
11/26	Review for Final Exam
11/28	No Class: Thanksgiving

Week XV
12/1	Samuel Johnson. Selected Essays Rambler, No. 170. November 2, 1751 Rambler, No. 171. November 5, 1751 Rambler, No. 73. November 27, 1750	Johnson Guide and Reflection Essay Questions
12/3	Rambler, No. 108. March 30, 1751 Rambler, No. 207. March 10, 1752 Adventurer, No. 111. November 27, 1753
12/5	Idler, No. [22]. September 9, 1758. [Note exact date and bracketed number] Idler, No. 81. November 3, 1759 Idler, No. 41. January 27, 1759 Idler, No. 88. December 22, 1759 Idler, No. 103. April 5, 1760
Friday, 12/12 10:30-12:30	Final Exam Annotated Bibliographies due	Final Exam Annotations