| May 3 | Introduction
“The Middle Ages” (3-10)
Taliesin, “The War-Band’s Return” | |
| May 5 | Beowulf, III
“Judith” | |
| May 10 | “The Dream of the Rood”
“The Wanderer”
Library research, essay writing, and MLA usage | |
| May 12 | “The Middle Ages” (10-25)
“Sir Gawain and the Green Knight” | |
| May 17 | Chaucer, “The Nun’s Priest’s Tale” | first essay due |
| May 19 | “The Cuckoo Song”
“Spring”
“I Sing of a Maiden”
Mid-term test | |
| May 24 | “The Early Modern Period”
Sidney, “The Apology for Poetry” (selections)
Spenser, Amoretti, 75
Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, 1
Shakespeare, Sonnets, 18 | research assignment due |
| May 26 | Donne, “The Canonization”
Marvell, “The Garden”
Herbert, “The Collar” | |
| May 31 | Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1 | critical essay assignment due |
| Jun 2 | “The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century”
Behn, “The Disappointment”
Swift, “The Lady’s Dressing Room”
Swift, “A Modest Proposal” | |
| Jun 7 | Pope, The Rape of the Lock | second essay due |
| Jun 9 | Cowper, “The Cast-away”
Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Review | |