Texts: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th ed., vol. 2 Marilyn Kurata, Models and Methods for Writing about Literature

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1/7Syllabus distribution & intro to the Romantic period

1/9Blake, from Songs of Innocence: "Intro," "The Lamb," "The Chimney Sweep"; from Songs of Experience: "Intro," "Holy Thursday," "The Chimney Sweep," "The Tyger," "London," "The Garden of Love," "A Poison Tree"

1/14Blake, continued.

Burns, "To a Mouse," "To a Louse," "Green Grow the Rashes," "Holy Willie's Prayer," "Auld Lang Syne"

1/16Wordsworth, "We Are Seven," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Talbes Turned," "Lines ... Tintern Abbey,"

1/18"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "My Heart Leaps Up," "Preface to Lyrical Ballads"

1/21Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "The World is Too Much With Us"

1/23Mary Wollstonecraft, "Intro" to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

1/28Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

1/30Coleridge, continued

Byron, Don Juan, Canto I (through stanza 94) 2/4Byron, Don Juan, through the end of Canto 1 2/6Shelley, "To Wordsworth," "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind," "To a Skylark" 2/11Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "When I Have Fears," "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

2/13Exam #1

2/18Introduction to the Victorian period

Carlyle, from Sartor Resartus: "The Everlasting No" and "The Everlasting Yea" Darwin, from The Descent of Man

2/20Tennyson, "The Lady of Shallott," "The Lotos-Eaters," "Ulysses"

2/25"Tithonus," "Locksley Hall," "Charge of the Light Brigade," "Crossing the Bar" 2/26Last day to withdraw with a W

2/27Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess," "Soliloquy in a Spanish Cloister," "Fra Lippo Lippi,"

3/4R. Browning, "Andrea del Sarto"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "Sonnet 43: How Do I Love Thee?" 3/6Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

3/11Fitzgerald, cont. + Arnold, "Dover Beach"Out-of-class essay due

3/13Arnold, selection from Culture and Anarchy Hopkins, "God's Grandeur,"

3/18"The Windhover," "No Worst, There is None" Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine"

3/20Exam #2

3/25Introduction to the 20th Century

Hardy, "Hap," "Channel Firing," "Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave?" "He Never Expected Much"

Housman, "To an Athlete Dying Young"

3/27Poetry of World War I: Brooke, "The Soldier"; Sassoon, "They," "The General," "Glory of Women"; Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches"; Owen, "Anthem for

Doomed Youth," "Dulce et Decorum Est," "Futility" 3/30-4/5Spring Break

4/8Woolf, A Room of One's Own, pp. 2153-2165 (chap. 1, entire), 2174-2183 (chap.3, entire), & mid-2211-2214 (end, chap. 6)

4/10Eliot, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" 4/15Joyce, "Araby"

4/17Yeats, "Who Goes With Fergus?" "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "Easter, 1916," "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop," "The Second Coming:"

4/22Lawrence, "Horse Dealer's Daughter"

4/24Smith, "Our Bog is Dood," "Not Waving But Drowning" Larkin, "Talking in Bed," "High Windows," "Aubade" 4/29Final exam, 10:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m.

There will be two exams during the quarter and a comprehensive final. The first two exams will include identification questions and short-answer (paragraph-length) topics to be written in class. The final will include a full-length in-class essay, plus ID items and quotations for you to identify and explain the significance of; you will receive the essay topics in advance and may use the textbook, a topic outline, a dictionary, and a list of quotations during it. Exams cover all assigned readings, introductory sections in the textbook, lectures, and class discussion. One out­of-class paper will also be assigned, to be written on your choice of topics distributed one week before the essay is due. There will also be a number of quizzes designed to show that you have read the assigned materials carefully. Each quiz consists of 7 short answer questions worth one point each, 5 "regular" points and 2 "bonus" points, which can be used to make up quizzes or questions that you missed. Quizzes are NOT offered as "make-up" work if you are absent when they are given; they are often given at the beginning of a class session--so it is important to be prompt. If you miss a quiz, you can use bonus points to make up for it. The quiz total is worth less than any other part of the grade, but it often makes the difference between one letter grade and another at the end of the term.

Each exam is worth 100 points (with 10 bonus points available there too), and the out-of-class essay is worth 75. If, for example, there were 7 quizzes, a "perfect score" on them would be 35 (7 x 5) but the total possible points would be 49 (7 x 7). The grade in the course is calculated on a 10% scale of the total number of "regular" points. Using the above example, the exams are worth 300 points, the essay is worth 75, and the quizzes are worth 35, for a total of 410. Therefore, an A = 369-410, B = 328-268'/2 , C = 287-327'/2 , D = 246-286 ¹/2 , and F = 0 - 245 ¹/2 . Total possible points = 454 (an 85-point spread for an A!).

The out-of-class essay MUST be accompanied by a thoroughly reworked rough draft, showing

the changes and revisions made as you turned it into the polished prose that it is; a draft is NOT the same thing as an outline, which is optional. Absence of a draft (or lack of substantial revision) means a grade reduction of one letter (10%). Late papers are penalized by a 10% reduction per class day that they are late. Remember that plagiarism means handing in someone else's work (another student's, a critic's, a purchased or copied paper, or a paper substantially "rewritten" by someone else) without giving proper credit. The penalty for plagiarism is an F in the course. Essays are graded according to the criteria applied to EH 101 and 102 themes; you MUST have completed EH 101 and 102 before taking this course.

Since this course necessarily moves quite rapidly, regular attentance is extremely important, and you will find it helpful on the exams to have taken detailed notes on the lectures, background information, and class discussion. If you are unable or unwilling to attend class for both hours each class day, this is in all likelihood NOT the course for you to enroll in. Participation is expected from all students.