English
Literature Survey II
Dr.
Todd Coke
Pawling Hall 114, Phone 8127
Office Hours: MWF 12‑1, and by appt.
Click here for Schedule of Assignments
Course
Description:
"Chronological survey of English literature from the Restoration through
James Joyce, with special emphasis on the masters. Prerequisite: ENG 112."
Course
Objectives:
By the end of the class, you will be able to demonstrate your
understanding of the historical development of English literature.
You will be able to explain the implications of the material that you
read. You will also be able to write clear, grammatically accurate
papers that demonstrate your ability to analyze and draw well‑supported
conclusions about literature.
Textbooks:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Major Authors Edition;
Wycherley, The Country Wife
Course
Requirements:
You will take three sectional tests. You will write one 10‑page
paper; I must approve the topic. You will attend class regularly and participate
in class discussion.
Class participation
is expected. In order to
participate, you must be in class. If
you miss more than four classes, your grade will be reduced.
Academic honesty
will be enforced. If I discover that anyone has violated standards of academic
honesty on any test or paper, I will fail that person for the class. Be
particularly careful to avoid plagiarism.
Evaluation: Each of
your tests and your paper counts as 20% of your grade. The remaining 20% is
based on class participation.
Schedule
of Assignments (subject to
change):
1. Introduction to
the course
2. Dryden, "MacFlecknoe,"
3. Swift, Gulliver’s
Travels, book I (Lilliput)
4. Swift, Gulliver’s
Travels, book IV (Houyhnhnms)
5. Swift, "A
Modest Proposal"
6. Pope,
"The Rape of the Lock"
7. Wycherley, The
Country Wife
Available at http://bibliomania.com --
choose "read--drama--Wycherley--Country Wife"
8. Wycherley, The
Country Wife
9.Johnson,
"The Vanity of Human Wishes"
10. Gray,
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," "Ode on the Death of a
Favorite Cat"
11. Review for Test
1
12. Test I
13. Introduction to
the Romantic era; Blake, “Songs of Innocence and Experience”
14. Blake,
"Songs of Innocence and Experience” (cont.)
15. Wordsworth,
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "The Tables Turned,"
"She Dwelt Among the Untrodden
Ways," "The Solitary Reaper," "The World is Too Much With
Us"
16. Wordsworth,
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
17. Coleridge,
"Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
18. Byron,
"Don Juan," fragment and Canto I
19. Byron, “Don
Juan,” continued; "She Walks in Beauty"
20. Shelley, "Ozymandias,"
"Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"
21. Keats,
"Ode on Melancholy," "On
First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,"
"Ode on a Grecian Urn"
22. Keats,
"Ode to a Nightingale," "When I have fears that I may cease to
be"
23. Keats,
"The Eve of St. Agnes"
24. Review for Test
II
25. Test II
26. Tennyson,
"The Lady of Shalott,"
27. Tennyson,
"Ulysses," "Crossing the Bar"
28. Browning,
"The Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister," "Porphyria’s
Lover"
29. Browning,
"My Last Duchess"
30. Browning,
"Andrea Del Sarto"
31. Arnold,
"The Buried Life"
32. Arnold,
"Dover Beach"
33. Rossetti,
"Goblin Market," "Song,"
34. Hopkins,
"God’s Grandeur," "The Windhover," "Spring and
Fall"
35. Hardy,
"Drummer Hodge," "The Darkling Thrush," "Channel
Firing," "Ah, Are You Digging on
My Grave?"; Houseman (handout)
36. Hardy and
Houseman (cont.); Owen (handout)
37. Wilfred Owen
(handout)
38. Yeats,
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "The Second Coming,"
"Sailing to Byzantium," "The Circus
Animals’ Desertion"
39. Woolf,
"The Mark on the Wall," selection
from A Room of One’s Own
40. Lawrence,
"The Horse Dealer’s Daughter"
41. Eliot,
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
42. Eliot,
continued
43. Review for Exam
III
44. Test III
(Time and Place TBA)