| Jan 8 | Introduction | |
| Jan 10 | Introduction to the Romantic period
Blake, “Holy Thursday”
Blake, “The Lamb”
Blake, “Holy Thursday”
Blake, “The Tyger” | |
| Jan 15 | Wordsworth, “Simon Lee”
Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” | |
| Jan 17 | Wordsworth, “Lines”
Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge” | |
| Jan 22 | Shelley, “Mont Blanc”
Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” | |
| Jan 24 | Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale”
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” | |
| Jan 29 | Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) | |
| Jan 31 | Shelley, Frankenstein (1818) | |
| Feb 5 | Introduction to the Victorian period
Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott” | short essay |
| Feb 7 | Arnold, “Dover Beach”
Tennyson, selections from In Memoriam | |
| Feb 12 | Tennyson, “Ulysses”
Arnold, “Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse” | |
| Feb 14 | Mid-term test | |
| Feb 26 | Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Browning, “‘Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’” | |
| Feb 28 | Rossetti, “Up-Hill”
Hopkins, “The Windhover”
Wilde, “Symphony in Yellow” | |
| Mar 5 | Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
Introduction to the twentieth century period
Owen, “Anthem for Doomed Youth” | critical essay assignment |
| Mar 7 | Joyce, “An Encounter”
Mansfield, “The Garden Party” | |
| Mar 12 | Yeats, “The Wild Swans at Coole”
Yeats, “Among School Children” | |
| Mar 14 | Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” | |
| Mar 19 | Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway | |
| Mar 21 | Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway | long essay |
| Mar 26 | Auden, “Musée des Beaux Arts”
Auden, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” | |
| Mar 28 | Stoppard, Arcadia | |
| Apr 2 | Hughes, “Theology”
Larkin, “High Windows”
Boland, “The Pomegranate”
Heaney, “A Call”
Duffy, “Salome” | |
| Apr 4 | Review | |