|
Date |
Assigned Reading &
Course Content |
|
9-22 |
Introduction to the course; ¡§The Dream of the Rood¡¨; ¡§The
Wanderer¡¨
Video: ¡§Old English Literature¡¨ (18 min.) |
| ¡@ |
The Middle Ages (to
ca. 1485) (pp. 1-11) |
|
Old English Literature |
|
9-29 |
Anonymous:
Beowulf 21-24, 28-40, 43-49, 50-51, 55-63, 68
Video: Beowulf (27 min.)
[J-1]
|
|
Middle English Literature |
|
10-6 |
Chaucer: Selections from The Canterbury Tales: ¡§The
General Prologue,¡¨
¡§The Wife of Bath¡¦s Prologue and Tale¡¨
Video: The Canterbury Tales I (30 min.)
[J-2]
|
|
10-13 |
Chaucer: Selections from The Canterbury Tales: ¡§The
Pardoner's Prologue and Tale¡¨
Video: The Canterbury Tales II (30 min.)
Anonymous:
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 200-54 |
|
10-20 |
Malory: Selections from Morte D¡¦Arthur: ¡§The Death of
Arthur¡¨ 344-63
Video: ¡§The Legend of the King¡¨
Anonymous:
The Second Shepherd's Play 319-44
[P-1]
Popular Ballads: ¡§Lord Randall¡¨; ¡§Edward¡¨; ¡§Sir Patrick Spens¡¨ |
| ¡@ |
The Sixteenth Century
(1485-1603) (pp. 395-414) |
|
10-27 |
More: Selections from Utopia, ¡§More Meets a
Returned Traveler¡¨ 415~,
¡§The Gold and Silver¡¨ 422~, ¡§Marriage Customs¡¨ 424~, ¡§Conclusion¡¨
429~
Sidney: Selections from Astrophil and Stella: #31,
39
Video: ¡§Reformation¡Xthe Age of Revolt¡¨ (23 min.) |
|
11-3 |
Spenser: The Fairy Queene, Book I, Cantos 1-3
[J-3]
Video: Elizabeth (excerpts) |
|
11-10 |
Marlowe: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus;
¡§The Passionate Shepherd to His Love¡¨
Video: ¡§The Spirit of Renaissance¡¨ (30 min.)
Shakespeare: Sonnets #1, 3, 12, 18, 20, 60, 97, 116, 129,
130 |
|
11-17 |
MIDTERM EXAM (Film: A Man for All Seasons) |
| ¡@ |
The Seventeenth
Century (1603-1660) (pp. 1069-80) |
|
11-24 |
Donne: ¡§The Canonization¡¨; ¡§The Flea¡¨; ¡§A Valediction
Forbidding Mourning¡¨
Holy Sonnets 10, 14, 17, 18 (p. 1114 ff); ¡§Meditation 17¡¨
Jonson: ¡§On My First Son¡¨; ¡§Song: To Celia¡¨; Herrick: ¡§To
the Virgins¡K¡¨ 1361
Herbert: ¡§The Altar¡¨; ¡§Easter Wings¡¨; Marvell: ¡§To His Coy
Mistress¡¨; ¡§The Definition of Love¡¨
Bacon: ¡§On Truth¡¨ (Videos on the above authors)
[P-2] |
|
12-1 |
Milton: ¡§On Shakespeare¡¨ 1442; ¡§Lycidas¡¨ 1450-57;
from Paradise Lost: 1474-76; Bk 1 (lines 1-270); Bk 3 (ll.55-265);
Bk 4 (ll.18-115, 634-775);
Bk 9 (ll. 82-97, 412-433, 631-833, 1134-89); Bk10 (ll. 794-1104);
Bk12 (ll.574-649)
[J-4] |
|
12-8 |
No
Class |
| ¡@ |
The Restoration and
the Eighteenth Century (1660-1785) (pp. 1767-85) |
|
12-15 |
Dryden: ¡§MacFlecknoe¡¨; ¡§A Song for St. Cecilia's Day¡¨ (and
music) |
|
12-22 |
Swift: Selections from Gulliver¡¦s Travels: Part I,
Part II 2109-14, Part III 2131-36,
Part IV 2172-77, 2180-81; ¡§A Modest Proposal¡¨
Video: from Gulliver¡¦s Travels (excerpts) |
|
12-29 |
Pope: ¡§The Rape of Lock¡¨ 2233-51
Congreve: excerpts from The Way of the World
Video: The Way of the World (50 min.) |
|
1-5 |
Johnson: Rasselas, 2316-21 (chaps 2-4), 2378;
Addison & Steele, 2189-90
Gray: ¡§Elegy in a Country Churchyard¡¨ 2458
Goldsmith: ¡§Deserted village¡¨ ll 1-74
Cowper: ¡§The Castaway¡¨
[P-3] |
|
1-12 |
Final Exam |