Week 1 (Tuesday, 4 September through Tuesday, 11 September) Graham Swift (1949-- ), Waterland (1983).
Intermedia tutorials in 265 CIT: 7-9 PM, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday (Choose one). First assignment due: Friday, 7 September
Week 2 (Thursday, 13 September, through Thursday, 20 September) Jonathan Swift (1667--1745), "A Modest Proposal" (1729), Gulliver's Travels , parts 1 and 4 (1735).
(Suggested additional reading: parts 2 and 3 of Gulliver's Travels and Swifts's "An Argument Against Abolishing Christianty" (1711), "A Description of the Morning" (1709), "A Description of a City Shower" (1710), "Phyllis, Or, the Progress of Love" (1727), "Cassinus and Peter" (1734).
Alexander Pope (1688--1744) and Samuel Johnson (1709--1784), (Pope) "The Rape of the Lock" (1712-14), "An Essay on Man" (1733), and "An Essay on Criticism" (1711). (Johnson) "The Vanity of Human Wishes" (1749), selections from The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, Chapters 1--5, 8--13, 16 (1759), The Rambler (1751), The Idler (1758--60).
Suggested additional reading: selections from The Dunciad (1743), and "Imitations of Horace" (1733-38; Boswell, entire; sel. from Johnson's Lives of the Poets , 1779--81.)
Week 3. (Tuesday, 25 September, through Thursday, 27 September) Jane Austen (1775--1817) and others. (Austen) Pride and Prejudice (1813). On handouts: Anne Radcliffe (1764--1823), selections from Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) (handout) and from Mary Howitt (1799--1888); Charlotte Brontë (1816--55); and Hannah Cullwick (1833--1909).
Week 4 (Tuesday, 2 October, through Thursday, 4 October) William Wordsworth (1770--1850) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). (Wordsworth) "Prospectus" to the Excursion (1814), "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (1798), "My Heart Leaps Up" (1807), "Resolution and Independence" (1807), "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1807), "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807), selections from The Prelude, Books, 6, 10--11. (Coleridge) "The Eolian Harp" (1796), "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (1798), "Kubla Khan" (1816), "Frost at Midnight" (1798), "Dejection: An Ode" (1834).
(Suggested additional readings: Selections from William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience ; Wordsworth's "The Solitary Reaper," "Mutability," and selections from The Prelude ; Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight.")
Second assignment due: Friday, 12 October.
Week 5 (Tuesday, 9 October, through Thursday, 11 October) John Keats (1795--1821) and Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822). (Keats) "Sleep and Poetry" (1817), "When I have fears" (|(1818|) 1848), "The Eve of St. Agnes" (1820), "La Belle Dame sans Mercy" (1820), "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819), "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1820), "Ode on Melancholy" (1820), (Shelley) "Mont Blanc" (1817), "Adonais" (1821), and A Defence of Poetry . (Suggested additional reading: (Keats) "To Autumn," "Bright Star," "This Living Hand," and letters (pp. 762-87; Shelley's "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," "Ozymandias," "Ode to the West Wind." Look at poems by Peacock, Hood, and Beddoes).
Week 6 (Tuesday, 16 October, through Thursday, 18 October) Thomas Carlyle (1795--1881), Charles Dickens (1812--70), Harriet Martineau (1802--76), and Florence Nightingale (1820--19 (Dickens) Great Expectations (1859); (Carlyle) "Characteristics" (1831), selections from Sartor Resartus (1830, 1834); (Nightingale) selections from Cassandra (1852, 1859).
Week 7 (Tuesday, 23 October, through Thursday, 25 October) Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809--92), "Mariana" (1830), "The Kraken" (1830), "The Lady of Shalott" (1832, 1842), "Ulysses" (1842), "Tithonus" (1860), "Morte d'Arthur" (1842), "Tears, Idle Tears" (1847), and In Memoriam (1850).
Week 8 (Tuesday, 30 October, through Thursday, 1 November) Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806--61) and Robert Browning (1812--89) plus Matthew Arnold, Arthur Hugh Clough (1819--61). (E. Browning) 2 poems entitled "To George Sand" (1844), selections, Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), "A Year's Spinning" (1850), selections from Aurora Leigh (1857), "A Musical Instrument" (1860). (R. Browning) "Porphyria's Lover" (1836, 1842), "My Last Duchess" (1842), "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's Church" (1845), "Fra Lippo Lippi" (1855), "|'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" (1855), "Andrea del Sarto" (1855), "Cleon" (1855), (Arnold) "Dover Beach" (1851, 1867), "The Buried Life" (1852), "Thrysis" (1866) (Clough) "Epi-strauss-ium" (1847, 1869), "The Latest Decalogue" (1862), "Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth" (1849, 1862), selections, Dipsychus (1865).
Third assignment due: Friday, 2 November.
Week 9 (Tuesday, 6 November, through Thursday, 8 November) John Ruskin (1819-1900) and the Pre-Raphaelites: Ruskin, "The Pathetic [i.e., emotional] Fallacy" (1856), selection from The Stones of Venice, vol. 3 (1853); Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828--82), "The Blessed Damozel" (1846, 1850), "My Sister's Sleep" (1847, 1850), "The Sea-Limits" (1849, 1870), "The Woodspurge" (1856, 1870), "The Sonnet" (1870), "Nuptial Sleep" (1870), "Silent Noon" (1870), "A Superscription" (1881). George Meredith (1828--1909), Modern Love, nos. 1, 17, 23 (1862), "Dirge in Woods" (1870). Christina Rossetti (1830--94), Entire selection in Norton anthology plus poems on Intermedia. William Morris (1834--96), "The Defence of Guenevre" (1859), "The Haystack in the Floods" (1858), "An Apology" (1868--70), "A Death Song" (1891). Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844--89). "God's Grandeur" (1877, 1918), "Spring" (1877, 1918), "The Windhover" (1877, 1918), "Pied Beauty" (1877, 1918), "Binsley Poplars" (1879, 1918), "Spring and Fall" (1880, 1918), "As Kingfishers Catch Fire" (1881, 1918), "Carrion Comfort" (1885, 1918), "No Worst, There is None" (1885, 1918), "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark" (1885, 1918), "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" (1889, 1918).
Week 10 (Tuesday, 13 November, through Thursday, 15 November) A. C. Swinburne (1837--1908), Thomas Hardy (1840--1928), and William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). (Swinburne) "The Triumph of Time" (1866), "Hymn to Proserpine" (1866), "Ave Atque Vale" (1868), "The Lake of Gaube" (1894, 1904). (Hardy) "Hap" (1866, 1898), "Drummer Hodge" (1899, 1902), "The Convergence of the Twain" (1912, 1914), "In Time of the Breaking of Nations" (1915, 1916). (Yeats) "The Madness of King Goll" (1884, 1888), "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" (1890, 1892), "When You Are Old" (1891, 1892), "No Second Troy" (1908, 1910), "A Coat" (1922, 1924), "Easter 1916" (1916), "The Second Coming" (1919, 1921), "Sailing for Byzantium" (1927), "Leda and the Swan" (1923, 1928), "Among School Children" (1926, 1927), "Byzantium" (1930, 1932).
Week 11 (Tuesday, 20 November) Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) and D. H. Lawrence (1885--1930). (Lawrence) "The Prussian Officer" (1914) and (Lawrence) "Mary Postgate" (1915) (both on Intermedia). Thanksgiving recess 21--25 November.
Week 12 (Tuesday, 27 November, through Thursday, 29 November) Joseph Conrad (1857--1924), Heart of Darkness (1902); James Joyce (1882--1941) and Virginia Woolf (1882--1941). (Joyce) "The Dead" (1914), selection from Ulysses on Intermedia; (Woolf) selection from To the Lighthouse to be distributed.
Fourth assignment due: Friday, 29 November.
Week 13 (Tuesday, 4 December, through Thursday, 6 December) T. S. Eliot (1888--1965) and recent poetry: (Eliot) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1910, 1917), "Journey of the Magi" (1927), The Wasteland (1917).
Suggested additional readings: (W. H. Auden (1907--73) "Spain 1937" (1937), "Museé des Beaux Arts" (1938, 1940), "In Memory of Sigmund Freud," "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1940, 1966).
Week 14 (Tuesday, 11 December) New Voices, Other Voices: Stevie Smith, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, A. D. Hope, Toni Harrison. Hope is on Intermedia.
Final assignment replacing final examination (for those eligible) or for extra credit due day of final examination.