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English 2122.01 schedule, summer 2025

Updated 6/17/25

This schedule is tentative.

Focus
Dates
Readings
Assignments

 

 Introduction(s)

 

May 21-23

Course syllabus
21XX syllabus supplement
2000-4000 grades and grading

MGA English Dept. Definition of Plagiarism

Syllabus quiz (D2L quiz) 
Introductions discussion (D2L)

 Drop/Add ends
May 22
 

 

First-Generation Romantics

 

May 23-31

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

William Wordsworth overview
Wordsworth headnote 124-26

 
"Lines Composed . . . Tintern Abbey" 131-35
 
"My heart leaps up" 179
 
"The world is too much with us" 189-90

Samuel Taylor Coleridge overview
Coleridge headnote 251-54    

    "Frost at Midnight" 292-93   
 
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" 258-74 


Plagiarism pledge (D2L)

Threaded discussion (D2L)
Possible critical response

 

Second-Generation Romantics

 

June 1-8

Golden rules

Elements of poetry

Mary Wollstonecraft overview  
Wollstonecraft headnote: 94-97  
 
   – A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 98-117

        (Introduction and chapter 2 only)

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 on a Grecian Urn" 503-5


Threaded discussion (D2L)
Possible critical response
Possible critical response corrections

Victorian Poetry June 8-15

Nuggets

 – The Victorian Era

Elizabeth Barrett Browning overview
Elizabeth Barrett Browning headnote 575-77
  "The Cry of the Children" 577-80
  "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

June 15-22

 – Quotations

 – Elements of fiction

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

Threaded discussion (D2L)
Possible critical response
Possible critical response corrections

Literary Terminology test (D2L quiz)

Midterm exam June 22-23 About the midterm Midterm exam (D2L quiz)
 Withdrawal deadline
June 25
 Last day to withdraw with "W" grade

Aesthetic movement & Early Modernism

June 23-29

Word problems

Oscar Wilde overview
Oscar Wilde headnote 930-32
  The Importance of Being Earnest
941-85

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

Threaded discussion (D2L)
Possible critical response
Possible critical response corrections

Writing Matters test (D2L quiz)

Modernism

Jun 29-July 7

Virginia Woolf overview
Woolf
headnote 1165-66
  "The Mark on the Wall"
1167-71

James Joyce overview
Joyce headnote 1241-44
   From Dubliners: "Eveline"
   
   Notes on chapter 8
   U
lysses chapter 8 ("Lestrygonians")
   See "Lestrygonians" with footnotes in D2L

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)
Possible critical response
Possible critical response corrections
Postmodernism July 7-13 Samuel Beckett overview
Beckett headnote 1372-73
Handout: Happy Days
Threaded discussion (D2L)
Possible critical response
Possible critical response corrections
Contemporary poetry July 13-16 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
July 17-18
Exam prep
Possible critical response
Final exam
July 19-20


Final exam (D2L quiz)