Schedule



Schedule


Page numbers refer to Longman Anthology of British Literature,
Volume 2A, 5th Edition (all selections available in 3rd and 4th editions)
Assignment
8/22
Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (551); Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (669-671); Byron, from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (771-772)
(recommended) “Romantics and Their Contemporaries” (7-33)

8/24
“The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy” (108);
Burke
, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (113-122); Paine, “The Rights of Man” (131-138)

8/29
Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley” (66-7); Burns, “To a Mouse” (398-399), “Is There, In Honest Poverty” (404);

8/31
Equiano, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano” (230-239); Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (176-186); Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (189-203)
Response due on either Equiano or one Blake poem
9/5
Labor Day Holiday: CAMPUS CLOSED

9/7
Continue with Blake

9/12
Wollstonecraft, “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (288-308)

9/14
Austen, Northanger Abbey, Volume 1 (chapters 1-15)
Response due on Northanger Abbey
9/19
Austen, Northanger Abbey, Volume 2 (chapters 16-31)

9/21
Continue with Austen

9/26
Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (203-216)

9/28
Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias” (877), “Sonnet: England in 1819” (878), “Ode to the West Wind” (889-891)
Response due on one Shelley poem
10/3
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (433-442); selections (412-433); Jeffrey, ‘[“the new poetry”]’ (468-471);

10/5
Wordsworth, [continue with selections (412-433)];

10/10
Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight” (563-565), “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison” (628-630)

10/12
MIDTERM

10/17
“The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque” (34-37); Burke (37-43); Kant (44-46)

10/19
Wordsworth, “There was a Boy” (407), from The Prelude, Book 11, lines 243-389 (492-496), Book 13, lines 1-184 (496-500)
Response due on any passage from Wordsworth
10/24
Wordsworth, from The Prelude, Book First, lines 306-502 (485-489), Book Second, lines 237-303 (493-494), “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (552-558)

10/26
Continue with Wordsworth

10/31
Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (634-649)
Response due on Coleridge
11/2
Continue with Coleridge

11/7
Byron, Manfred (647-683)

11/9
Continue with Byron; Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (911-913)
Paper Due
11/14
Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes (893-904), “La belle dame sans merci” (906-907)

11/16
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (913-915), “Ode on Melancholy” (917-918), “To Autumn” (918-919)
NEW Optional Makeup Response due on any passage from one of Keats' Odes
11/21
Percy Shelley, “To a Skylark” (891-893), Adonais (894-909)
NEW Paper Draft Due
11/23
Study Day: NO CLASS MEETING

11/28
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

11/30
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

12/5
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Revised Paper Due
Th.
12/8
Final Examination 1:30-3:30pm