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Reading

Assignment

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4/3

What is Literary History?

 

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4/5

Addison, “On the Scale of Being” (handout)
Pope, “The Rape of the Lock” (online at http://people.umass.edu/sconstan/poemlink.html)

 

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4/10

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 1

 

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4/12

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Part 4

 

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4/17

Norton Anthology, “Introduction” to Romantic Age

Blake, (from Songs of Innocence) “The Little Black Boy,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “Holy Thursday”; (from Songs of Experience) “Holy Thursday,” “The Chimney Sweeper,” “The Tyger,” “A Poison Tree”

Response on 18th Century Due

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4/19

Wordsworth, “We Are Seven,” “Lines Written in Early Spring,” “Expostulation and Reply,” “The Tables Turned,” “She dwelt among the untrodden ways,” “Three years she grew,” “A slumber did my spirit seal,” “I wandered lonely as a cloud,”

 

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4/24

Wordsworth, “The Ruined Cottage”

 

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4/26

Byron, “Darkness”; Shelley, “Ozymandias,” “Ode to the West Wind”

 

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5/1

Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

 

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5/3

MIDTERM

Response on Romantic Age Due

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5/8

Norton Anthology, “Introduction” to Victorian Age

Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott,” “Ulysses,” and “Locksley Hall”

 

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5/10

Browning,“My Last Duchess”
(optional) “Porphyria’s Lover” and “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”

Discuss Paper Topics (PDF)

 

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5/15

C. Rosetti, “Goblin Market”

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5/17

Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

 

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5/22

Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray;
The Importance of Being Earnest

 

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5/24

Norton Anthology, “Introduction” to 20th Century

Yeats, “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “September 1913,” “Easter, 1916,” “The Second Coming,” Sailing to Byzantium,” “Leda and the Swan,” and “Byzantium”

Response on Victorian Age Due

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5/29

Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Part I

(New Date!) Paper Due

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5/31

Conrad, Heart of Darkness, Parts 2 and 3

 

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6/5

Eliot, The Waste Land
Joyce, “The Dead”; Gordimer, “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”; Munro, “Walker Brothers Cowboy”

 

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6/7

Beckett, Endgame

 

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6/14

TAKE HOME FINAL
Due in my department mailbox (or by email) by 5pm on Thursday, June 14

Response on 20th Century Due

 

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