Renoir Young Girl Reading

Course: English 206--English Literature II
Instructor: Ann Warren
Office: NEA 273
Phone: (310) 233-4247
Office Hours: Mon-Thurs. 9-9:30 a.m., and by appointment
E-mail: annw708@earthlink.net

Course Schedule: Week 1 Course Schedule: Weeks 2-5 Course Schedule: Weeks 6-9 Course Schedule: Weeks 10-15 Course Schedule: Final Exam

Course Schedule

Week 1 Aug. 29-Sept. 3 INTRODUCTION
THE ROMANTICS
Writing About Literature
Go to Lecture 1
Go to Discussion Questions 1		 Reading: Blake,
  • "The Chimney Sweeper," 85
  • "Holy Thursday," 86
  • "The Chimney Sweeper," 90
  • "Holy Thursday," 90

Note: This is not a mistake: there are two poems called "The Chimney Sweeper," and two poems called "Holy Thursday." The similarity in names is explained in the lecture.

Wordsworth,
  • "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," 258
  • "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," 306
Coleridge,
  • "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," 430
  • "Kubla Khan," 446
  • "Frost at Midnight," 464
Week 2 Sept. 6-10 THE ROMANTICS
Go to Lecture 2
Go to Discussion Questions 2		 Reading: Byron,
  • "She Walks in Beauty," 612
  • "January 22nd. Missolonghi," 735
  • Optional: "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Cantos 1 and 3, 617
  • "Don Juan," Canto 1, 670
Shelley,
  • "Mutability," 744
  • "Mont Blanc," 762
  • Optional: "Prometheus Unbound," 775
Keats,
  • "Ode to a Nightingale," 903
  • "Ode on a Grecian Urn," 905
Week 3 Sept. 12-17 THE ROMANTICS
Go to Lecture 3
Go to Discussion Questions 3		 Reading: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 4 Sept. 19-24 ROMANTIC OR VICTORIAN?
Go to Lecture 4
Go to Discussion Questions 4		 Reading: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 5 Sept. 26-Oct. 1 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 5
Go to Discussion Questions 5		 Reading: Tennyson,
  • "The Lady of Shalott," 1114
  • "The Epic [Morte d'Arthur]," 1127
  • "In Memoriam A. H. H.," 1138: read the following stanzas:
    • Obiit MDCCCXXXIII
    • 1
    • 5
    • 22
    • 24
    • 27
    • 50
    • 54
    • 82
    • 131
  • "The Charge of the Light Brigade," 1188
Browning,
  • "My Last Duchess," 1255
  • "Meeting at Night"
  • Optional: "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came," 1266
Week 6 Oct. 3-8 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 6
No Discussion Questions due this time
fountain penPaper 1 due		 Reading: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 7 Oct. 10-15 THE VICTORIANS
No new lecture this time
Go to Discussion Questions 6		 Reading: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 8 Oct. 17-22 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 7
Go to Discussion Questions 7		 Reading: Arnold,
  • "Isolation: To Marguerite," 1354
  • "To Marguerite--Continued," 1355
  • "Dover Beach," 1368
Pater, Conclusion to The Renaissance, 1511
Hopkins,
  • "Pied Beauty," 1518
  • "Spring and Fall," 1521
Week 9 Oct. 24-29 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 8
Go to Discussion Questions 8		 Reading: Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 10 Oct. 31-Nov. 5 THE VICTORIANS?
Go to Lecture 9
Go to Discussion Questions 9		 Reading: Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1698

Note: This is a play; you should read the whole thing.

Week 11 Nov. 7-12 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Go to Lecture 10
No Discussion Questions due this time
fountain pen Paper 2 due		 Reading: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness, 1890

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 12 Nov. 14-19 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Go to Lecture 11
Go to Discussion Questions 10		 Reading: Brooke, "The Soldier," 1955
Sassoon, "They," 1960
Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est," 1974
Yeats, "The Second Coming," 2036
"The Circus Animals' Desertion," 2051
Eliot, The Wasteland, 2295
Note: This is a long poem. You should read at least the first part, "The Burial of the Dead"; the other parts are optional.
Week 13 Nov. 21-23 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Go to Lecture 12
No Discussion Questions due this time 		Reading: Woolf, "The Mark on the Wall," 2082
Joyce, "The Dead," 2172
Lawrence, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter," 2258
Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts," 2428
Thomas, "Fern Hill," 2448
Week 14 Nov. 28-Dec. 3 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Go to Lecture 13
Go to Discussion Questions 11
fountain pen Paper 3 due		 Reading: Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Note: This is a play; you should read the whole thing.

Week 15 Dec. 5-10 CATCH YOUR BREATH TIME No reading assignment for this week
Week 16 FINAL EXAM
fountain penFinal Exam due		 The final exam is due on or before Monday, December 12th.

No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately.

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