English 2122.01 schedule, spring 2025

Elements of poetry

Nuggets

Percy Bysshe Shelley overview
Shelley headnote 385-88
"Mont Blanc" 389-93
"Ozymandias" 395
"England in 1819" 396
"A Song: Men of England (online)
"Ode to the West Wind" 396-98

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

Focus	Dates	Readings	Assignments
Introduction(s)	Jan 8-14	– Course syllabus – 21XX syllabus supplement – 2000-4000 grades and grading	– Syllabus quiz (D2L quiz) – Introductions discussion (D2L)
Drop/Add ends	Jan 14
First-Generation Romantics I	Jan 10-18	– Simple Stuff – 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 – "The Garden of Love" 59 Mary Wollstonecraft overview Wollstonecraft headnote: 94-97 – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 98-117	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response
First-Generation Romantics II	Jan 19-25	– MGA English Dept. Definition of Plagiarism – Golden rules William Wordsworth overview Wordsworth headnote 124-26 – "Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey" 131-35 – "Michael" 164-74 – "My heart leaps up" 179 – "The world is too much with us" 189-90 – "We Are Seven" 278-79 – "Preface to Lyrical Ballads" 135-47 Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview Coleridge headnote 251-54 – "The Eolian Harp" 254-55 – "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison 256-57 – "Frost at Midnight" 292-93 – "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 258-74	– Plagiarism pledge (D2L) – Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Second-Generation Romantics	Jan 26-Feb. 1	Elements of poetry Nuggets Percy Bysshe Shelley overview Shelley headnote 385-88 "Mont Blanc" 389-93 "Ozymandias" 395 "England in 1819" 396 "A Song: Men of England (online) "Ode to the West Wind" 396-98 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 – Possible critical response corrections
Victorian Poetry	Feb. 2-8	The Victorian Era Quotations Elizabeth Barrett Browning overview Elizabeth Barrett Browning headnote 575-77 "The Cry of the Children" 577-80 "From Sonnets from the Portuguese" 581-82 "From Aurora Leigh" 589-603 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 "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister" 772-74 "My Last Duchess" 774-75	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Victorian fiction	Feb. 9-15	Elements of fiction Charles Dickens overview GE Introductions Great Expectations chapters 1-15	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Victorian fiction	Feb. 16-22	Word problems Great Expectations chapters 16-29	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Victorian fiction	Feb. 23-March 1	Great Expectations chapters 30-44	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections – Literary Terminology test (D2L)
Victorian fiction	March 2-8	Great Expectations chapters 45-59 The original (Canceled) ending	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Midterm exam	March 9-11	About the midterm: overview and tips for success	– Midterm exam (D2L quiz)
Withdrawal deadline	March 12	Last day to withdraw with "W" grade
Aesthetic movement	March 11-16	Oscar Wilde overview Oscar Wilde headnote 930-32 The Importance of Being Earnest 941-85	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Spring Break	March 17-21
Early modernism	March 23-29	Joseph Conrad overview Conrad headnote 1056-60 Heart of Darkness 1060-1117	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Modernism I	March 30-April 5	Virginia Woolf overview Woolf headnote 1165-66 "The Mark on the Wall" 1167-71 A Room of One's Own" 1177-1237	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections – Writing Matters test
Modernism II	April 6-12	James Joyce overview Joyce headnote 1241-44 From Dubliners: "Araby" 1244-48 "Eveline" Optional notes on chapter 8 Ulysses chapter 8 ("Lestrygonians")	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections – Formal paper assigned
Modernism III	April 13-19	T.S. Eliot overview T.S. Eliot headnote 1319-22 "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 1322-25 "The Hollow Men" 1339-42 "Journey of the Magi" 1342-43	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections – Paper proposal
Postmodernism	April 20-26	Samuel Beckett overview Beckett headnote 1372-73 Handout: Happy Days	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections – Paper due
Contemporary poetry	April 27-May 1	W. H. Auden headnote 1429-30 "Musée des Beaux Arts" 1433-34 "The Unknown Citizen" 1436-37 Philip Larkin headnote 1451 "Church Going" 1452 "Ambulances" 1454-55 "This Be the Verse" 1456 Seamus Heaney headnote 1486-87 "Digging" 1487-88 "The Forge" 1488 "Punishment" 1490-91	– Threaded discussion (D2L) – Possible critical response – Possible critical response corrections
Reading Days	May 1-3	Exam prep
Final exam	May 4-5		– Paper corrections – Final exam (D2L quiz)