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English 2122.01 schedule, summer 2026

Updated 5/26/2026

This schedule is (seriously!) tentative.

Focus
Dates
Readings
Assignments

 Introduction(s)

May 27-29

Course syllabus
2000-4000 grades and grading

MGA English Dept. Definition of Plagiarism

Syllabus quiz (D2L quiz) 
Introductions discussion (D2L)

 Drop/Add ends
May 28
 

 

First-Generation Romantics

 

May 29-June 6

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 6-14

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)

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 14-21

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
Midterm exam June 21-22 About the midterm Midterm exam (D2L quiz)

 

Victorian fiction

 

June 21-28

 – Quotations

 – Elements of fiction

Charles Dickens or Robert Louis Stevenson tba

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

Literary Terminology test (D2L quiz)

 

Aesthetic movement & Early Modernism

 

June 28-July 5

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

 

 Withdrawal deadline
July 8
 Last day to withdraw with "W" grade

 

Modernism

 

July 5-12

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

Formal paper assigned

Writing Matters test (D2L quiz)

 

Postmodernism

 

July 12-19

Samuel Beckett overview
Beckett headnote 1372-73
Handout: Happy Days

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

Paper proposal

 

Contemporary poetry

 

July 19-23

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 23-25
Exam prep

Possible critical response

Paper due

Final exam
July 26-27


Final exam (D2L quiz)