ENGL 2122/Fall 2021/Schedule

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This schedule represents the ideal outline for our study this semester. Yet, like all best-laid plans, we may not be able to keep up with our agenda. Please be flexible and try to look and read ahead whenever possible.

We will do our best to stick by this schedule, but I will inform you verbally, via an email, and/or a literal change to the schedule below whenever there is a deviation. Getting these updates is solely your responsibility. Therefore, this schedule is tentative and subject to change contingent upon the needs of the students and the professor, and dictated by time and other constraints which may affect the course. For face-to-face classes, this schedule reflects only an overview of the assigned reading and other major course assignments. It may not indicate specific class session assignments or activities. Specific in-class assignments may not be reflected on the schedule.

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Each week of this class has its own unit or lesson corresponding to a literary movement. Each week is divided into daily work that contain readings (with the occasional reading quiz) and writing. Each week concludes with a test on the materials covered. The following is a general overview of the schedule.

Date Assignment
The Early Romantic Period
6 October Introduction to Romanticism
  • Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit
  • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 3–30
  • Respond: Based on your reading, identify the five most important characteristics that define the Romantic Age. Who are the major figures? Major works? What should readers look for in the work?
7 October
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William Blake
  • From Songs of Innocence:
    • “Introduction”
    • “The Lamb”
    • “The Little Black Boy”
    • “The Chimney Sweeper”
    • “The Divine Image”
  • From Songs of Experience:
    • “Introduction”
    • “The Chimney Sweeper”
    • “The Tyger”
    • “The Sick Rose”
    • “London”
8 October William Wordsworth
  • “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
  • “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
  • “I travelled among unknown men”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
  • “Kubla Khan”
  • “Christabel”
  • “Dejection: An Ode”
11 October Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • from A Vindication on the Rights of Women
12 October Test #1
  • Take the Test
The Late Romantic Period
13 October George Gordon, Lord Byron
  • “She Walks in Beauty”
  • “Darkness”
14 October Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • “Ozymandias”
  • “To a Sky-Lark”
15 October John Keats
  • “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
  • “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
  • “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
  • “Ode to a Nightingale”
  • “Ode to a Grecian Urn”
18 October Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Selections from Sonnets from the Portuguese
19 October Test #2
The Victorian Period
20 October Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  • “The Lady of Shalott”
  • “The Lotos-Eaters”
  • “Ulysses”
Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • “God’s Grandeur”
  • “The Windhover”
21 October Robert Browning
  • “My Last Duchess”
  • “Porphyria’s Lover”
Matthew Arnold
  • “Dover Beach”
  • From The Study of Poetry
Christina Rossetti
  • “Goblin Market”
22 October Rudyard Kipling
  • “The White Man’s Burden”
25 October Oscar Wilde
  • The Importance of Being Earnest
26 October Test #3
The Edwardian Period / World War I
27 October Thomas Hardy
  • . . .
28 October E. M. Forster
  • “The Machine Stops”
  • “Tolerance”
29 October James Joyce
  • “Araby”
1 November Rupert Brooke
  • “The Soldier”
Edward Thomas
  • “Adlestrop”
  • “Tears”
  • “The Owl”
  • “Rain”
  • “The Cherry Trees”
  • “As the Team’s Head Brass”
Siegfried Sassoon
  • “They”
  • “The Rear Guard”
  • “The General”
  • “Glory of Women”
Wilfred Owen
  • “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”
  • “Dulce Et Decorum Est”
  • “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”
2 November Test #4
Modernism
3 November[1] William Butler Yeats
  • “Leda and the Swan”
  • “The Second Coming”
  • “Sailing to Byzantium”
4 November T. S. Eliot
  • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
5 November[2] W. H. Auden
  • “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Dylan Thomas
  • “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good”
8 November Virginia Woolf
  • “A Room of One’s Own”
9 November Test #5
World War II / Postmodernism
10 November Philip Larkin
11 November Nadine Gordimer
  • “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”
12 November . . .
  • . . .
15 November . . .
  • . . .
29 November Ishiguro
  • The Remains of the Day
30 November Test #6



notes

  1. Midterm grades due.
  2. Withdrawal deadline.
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