EADING ASSIGNMENTS

13 Course Introduction

15 John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

17 Jonathan Swift, "A Voyage to Lilliput"

20 No Class

22 Jonathan Swift, "A Voyage to Brobdingnag"

24 Jonathan Swift; "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms"

27 Alexander Pope, "An Essay on Man"

29 Samuel Johnson, "The Vanity of Human Wishes" "Preface" and

"Selections" from The Dictionary"

31   Exam I

February

3 William Blake, Songs of Innocence, particularly "Introduction" to  Songs of Innocence,

"The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "Holy Thursday"

5 William Blake  Songs of Experience, particularly "Introduction" to Songs of Experience,  "The Clod & the Pebble,"  "The Tyger," "The Garden of Love," "London"

7 Finish discussion of William Blake

10 William Wordsworth, "Expostulation and Reply" "The Tables Turned" "We Are Seven"

12 "Lines: Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"

14 William Wordsworth, Michael

17 Samuel T. Coleridge, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” “Frost at Midnight”

19 Samuel T. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

21 Catch Up

24 Percy Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” “Ode to a Skylark

26 John Keats, Eve of St. Agnes

28 John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” “Ode on Melancholy”

March

3 George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

5 George Gordon Byron, Don Juan

7 Exam II

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17 Spring Break

19 Spring Break

22 Spring Break

24 Robert Browning, "Porphyria’s Lover", “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” “My Last Duchess”

26 “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” “Fra Lippo Lippi”

28 Alfred Tennyson "Ulysses" "The Lotus Eaters"  

April

2 Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shallot

4 Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” “The Buried Life”

7 Christina Rossetti Goblin Market

9 Exam III

11 William B. Yeats, “The Stolen Child” “The Wild Swans at Coole” “The Second Coming

14 William B. Yeats, “Among School Children” “Lapis Lazuli”

16 Virginia Woolf The, Mark on the Wall

21 James Joyce, Araby

18 Good Friday

23 James Joyce, The Dead

25 T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

28 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

30 T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

 May

 5 Final Exam 9:00 a.m.

 Note: College Policy requires you to take your exams at the assigned time. If you have three or more exams on a given day, you may petition the Provost for a change in your schedule. Also, seniors are not exempt from the final exam in this course