English 2122.01 schedule, spring 2023

Focus

Dates

Readings

Assignments

Introduction(s)

March 8-10

– Course syllabus
– 21XX syllabus supplement
– 2000-4000 grades and grading
– Definition of Plagiarism

– Student info form (online)
– Syllabus quiz (D2L quiz)
– Plagiarism pledge (D2L dropbox)
– Threaded discussion 1 (D2L)

Drop/Add ends

March 9

First-Generation Romantics

March 10-19

– Simple Stuff
– Golden rules

– The Romantic Era
– Romanticism

William Blake overview
William Blake headnote pp. 44-46
   – "The Lamb" 50-51 & "The Tyger" 58
   – "The Chimney Sweeper" (two versions) 51-52 & 57
   – "The Divine Image" 52-53 & "The Human Abstract" 60-61

William Wordsworth overview
Wordsworth headnote 124-26
– "We Are Seven" 278-79
– "Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey" 131-35
– "The world is too much with us" 179-90
– "My heart leaps up" 189-90

Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview
Coleridge headnote 251-54
– "The Eolian Harp" 254-55
– "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 258-74

– Threaded discussion (D2L)

– Possible critical response

Second-Generation Romantics

March 27-April 1

Nuggets

Percy Bysshe Shelley overview
Shelley headnote 385-88
"Mont Blanc" 389-93
"Ozymandias" 395
"England in 1819" 396
"Ode to the West Wind" 396-98

Felicia Dorothea Hemans headnote 466-67
"Casabianca" 468-69
"Indian Woman's Death Song" 474-75

John Keats overview
Keats headnote 475-78
"On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" 478
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" 497-99
"Ode to a Nightingale" 501-3
"Ode on a Grecian Urn" 503-5

– Threaded discussion (D2L)

– Possible critical response

Victorian poetry

April 1-April 8

Quotations

The Victorian Era

Elizabeth Barrett Browning overview
Elizabeth Barrett Browning headnote 575-77
"The Cry of the Children" 587-90
"From Sonnets from the Portuguese" 581-82
"From Aurora Leigh" 598-603

Alfred, Lord Tennyson overview
Tennyson headnote 604-7
"The Lady of Shalott" 609-14
"Ulysses" 618-20
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" 678-79

Robert Browning overview
Robert Browning headnote 767-70
"Porphyria's Lover" 720-21
"Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" 772-74
"My Last Duchess" 774-75

– Threaded discussion (D2L)

– Possible critical response

Withdrawal deadline

April 7

Last day to withdraw with "W" grade

Victorian fiction

April 9-15

Word problems

Charles Dickens overview
Dickens headnote 707-9
A Christmas Carol 710-66

Robert Louis Stevenson headnote 886-87
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 887-930

– Threaded discussion (D2L)

– Critical response

– Critical response corrections
(for those graded by April 12th)

Modernism

April 16-22

Elements of fiction
Elements of poetry

Joseph Conrad overview
Conrad headnote 1056-60
Heart of Darkness 1060-1117

Virginia Woolf overview
Woolf headnote 1165-66
"The Mark on the Wall" 1166-71
"Professions for Women" 1237-41

T.S. Eliot overview
T.S. Eliot headnote 1319-22
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1322-25
"The Hollow Men" 1339-42

– Threaded discussion (D2L)

– Critical response

– Critical response corrections
(for those graded by April 19th)

Later 20th-century

April 23-29

Wilfred Owen headnote 1117-18
"Disabled" 1124-25

James Joyce overview
"Araby" 1244-48

W. H. Auden headnote 1429-30
"Musée des Beaux Arts" 1433-34
  "The Unknown Citizen" 1436-37

Philip Larkin Headnote
  "Church Going" 1452
  "Ambulances" 1454
  "This Be the Verse" 1456

– Threaded discussion (D2L)

– Critical response

– Critical response corrections
(for those graded by April 25th)

Reading Days

April 29-May 2

Exam prep and corrections

Final exam

May 3-4