| Sep 13 | Introduction | |
| Sep 15 | “The Middle Ages”
Taliesin, “The War-Band’s Return” | |
| Sep 20 | Beowulf, III | |
| Sep 22 | “Judith”
“Wulf and Eadwacer”
“The Wife’s Lament” | |
| Sep 27 | “The Dream of the Rood”
“The Wanderer” | |
| Sep 29 | “Spring”
“Alisoun”
“I Sing of a Maiden”
“Jesus, My Sweet Lover” | |
| Oct 4 | “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (Parts 1 and 2) | |
| Oct 6 | “Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” (Parts 3 and 4) | first essay due |
| Oct 18 | Chaucer, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” | |
| Oct 20 | Chaucer, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” | |
| Oct 25 | Mid-term test | |
| Oct 27 | Library lecture: meeting at the library | |
| Nov 1 | “The Early Modern Period”
Sidney, “The Apology for Poetry” (selections) | |
| Nov 3 | Spenser, Amoretti, 75
Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 1
Shakespeare, Sonnets, 18
Shakespeare, Sonnets, 20
Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus, 39 | library assignment due |
| Nov 8 | Donne, “The Sun Rising”
Donne, “The Canonization” | |
| Nov 10 | Marvell, “The Garden”
Herbert, “The Collar” | |
| Nov 15 | Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 | |
| Nov 17 | “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century”
Behn, “The Disappointment”
Swift, “The Lady’s Dressing Room” | critical essay assignment due |
| Nov 22 | Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4 (selections) | |
| Nov 24 | Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4 (selections) | |
| Nov 29 | Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Cantos 1-2) | |
| Dec 1 | Pope, The Rape of the Lock (Cantos 3-5) | second essay due |
| Dec 6 | Cowper, “The Cast-away”
Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard” | |
| Dec 8 | Review | |