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Wk |
Date |
Topic |
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1 |
2/15 |
Welcome Back: Introduction to the Course
Medieval Lyric &
Ballads
Anonymous “Western Wind”
Anonymous “Sir Patrick Spence” (812)
*Anonymous “Barbara Allen”
Cf.
Keats “La Belle Dame sans Merci” |
Anonymous lyric & folk
ballad cf. Literary ballad
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2 |
2/22 |
16th Century Poetry
Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the
marriage...” (646)
*Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
(756)
*
the courting sonnet from
Romeo & Juliet
Video:
Shakespeare in Love |
Various ways to see love
Shakespearean Sonnet
quiz 1
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3 |
3/1 |
17th Century Poetry
Donne “The Flea” (712)
Donne "Valediction: Forbidden Mourning" (1013)
Donne “Death, Be Not Proud” (1012)
Marvel “To His Coy Mistress” (713)
Related Film: Wit |
Metaphysical Poetry,
Metaphysical Conceit
Love: courtly & religious
quiz 2
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4 |
3/8 |
18th Century Poetry (Poetic
Criticism)
Pope “Sound and Sense” from Essay on Criticism
(776)
Related Film:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Orlando
Romantic Poetry
Blake “The Sick Rose” (767) “London” (658)
*
Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1033; ref. 918)
*---. “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
*---. "Bright Star"
Related Film: Bright Star |
“Proper words in proper places,” heroic
couplets
Pope,
Blake,
Wordsworth,
Keats
quiz 3
Poetry, Love, Life/Death
Ode
Literary ballad
Lyric
Italian Sonnet |
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5 |
3/15 |
Romantic Poetry
*Shelley “Ozymandias”
Victorian Dramatic
Monologue
Browning “My Last Duchess” (1009)
Tennyson “Ulysses” (928) |
Dramatic Monologue
Love/Egotism, In/Stability
Keats & Shelley
Dramatic Monologue
quiz 4 |
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6 |
3/22 |
Frankenstein (1): Introd and Letters and Chaps 1 and 2--
Narrative Frames and Family Relations
Frankenstein (2): Chaps 3-10 -- Science, Nature and Creation |
quiz 5 |
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7 |
3/29 |
Poetry Work Station; the class starts at 8:30 |
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8 |
4/5 |
--Spring Break |
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9 |
4/12 |
Mid-Term on Poetry |
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10 |
4/19 |
Frankenstein (2): Chaps 3-10 (cont'd)-- Science, Nature and Creation |
F quiz 1 |
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11 |
4/26 |
Frankenstein (3): Chaps 11-17 -- The Human Monster's
Education |
F quiz 2 |
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12 |
5/3 |
Frankenstein (4): Chaps18-23 --Revenge and Obsession |
F quiz 3,
quiz 4 |
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13 |
5/10 |
Frankenstein (5): Chap 24 and Conclusion -- Romantic
Hero and Gender |
F quiz 5 |
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14 |
5/17 |
Review: Discuss and
Learn |
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15 |
5/24 |
Arthur Miller:
The Death of a Salesman
Act I |
intro,
Act 1
quiz 1,
quiz 2 |
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16 |
5/31 |
The Death of a Salesman
Act II |
Act 2
quiz 3 |
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17 |
6/7 |
The Death of a Salesman
Requiem & Conclusion |
The Play as a 'Whole
Conclusion |
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18 |
6/14 |
--Final Exam |
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