| Jan 10 | Course introduction
Introduction to the Romantic period
Smith, sonnet IV: “To the Moon” (41) | |
| Jan 12 | Blake, “A Poison Tree” (74)
Blake, “Holy Thursday” (59)
Blake, “Holy Thursday” (64)
Studying poetry | |
| Jan 17 | Wordsworth, “Simon Lee” (186)
Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (330) | |
| Jan 19 | Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode” (334)
Essay writing | |
| Jan 24 | Wordsworth, “Lines” (“Tintern Abbey”; 193) | |
| Jan 26 | Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (470)
Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (477) | |
| Jan 31 | Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (553)
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (555) | short essay due |
| Feb 2 | Introduction to the Victorian period
Arnold, “Dover Beach” (863)
Tennyson, In Memoriam, 5, 54, 55, 56 (662, 672) | |
| Feb 7 | Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
| Feb 9 | Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
| Feb 14 | Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge | |
| Feb 16 | Mid-term test | |
| Feb 28 | Tennyson, “Ulysses” (649)
Tennyson, “The Epic” (653) | |
| Mar 1 | Browning, “My Last Duchess” (749)
Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’” (758) | |
| Mar 6 | Rossetti, “Up-Hill” (894)
Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush” (1124)
Introduction to the Twentieth century period
Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” (1169) | critical assignment due |
| Mar 8 | Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole” (1188)
Yeats, “Among School Children” (1195) | |
| Mar 13 | Joyce, “The Dead” (1218) | |
| Mar 15 | Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1248) | |
| Mar 20 | Mansfield, “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” (1317) | long essay due |
| Mar 22 | Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts” (1396)
Auden, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” (1397) | |
| Mar 27 | Greene, The End of the Affair | |
| Mar 29 | Greene, The End of the Affair | |
| Apr 3 | Larkin, “High Windows” (1409)
Hughes, “Dust As We Are” (1413)
Boland, “The Pomegranate” (1474)
Heaney, “A Call” (1460) | |
| Apr 5 | Review | |