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ENGL 2323.01 Spring 2012 - Mullinax Course Calendar All readings can be found in your Norton Anthology textbook. // Wednesday, January 18: // First class day Introductions Syllabus // Blackboard // Log in, update your email address, and familiarize yourself with the site. // Friday, January 20: // // Introductory Notes and Romanticism //

// Monday, January 23: // // Romanticism Continued //

// Wednesday, January 25: // // Robert Burns p. 129-31 // // “Green grow the rashes” p. 131-2 // // “To a Mouse” p. 135-6 // // “To a Louse” p. 136-7 // // “Auld Lang Syne” p. 137-8 //

// Friday, January 27: // // William Blake p. 76-9 // // From Songs of Innocence: // // “Introduction” p. 81-2 // // “The Lamb” p. 83-4 // // “The Chimney Sweeper” p. 85 // // “Infant Joy” p. 87 // // From Songs of Experience: // // “Introduction” p. 87-8 // // “The Tyger” p. 92-3 // // “The Chimney Sweeper” p. 90 // // “Infant Sorrow” p. 95 //

// Monday, January 30: // // William Wordsworth p. 243-5 // // “Simon Lee” p. 245-8 // // “We Are Seven” p. 248-9 // // “Michael” p. 292-301 // // “I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud” p. 305-6 //

// Wednesday, February 1: // // Samuel Taylor Coleridge p. 424-6 // // The Rime of the Ancient Mariner p. 430-46 // [] Special Thanks to Lucas for this.

// Friday, February 3: // // Coleridge Continued… // // “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” p. 428-30 // // “Kubla Khan” p. 446-8 // // “The Pains of Sleep” p. 469-70 // // “Epitaph” p. 473 // // Thomas DeQuincey p. 554-6 // // From The Pains of Opium [Opium Reveries and Dreams] p. 560-9 //

// Monday, February 6: // // George Gordon (Lord Byron) p. 607-11 // [] // “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” p. 611-2 // // “She Walks in Beauty” p. 612 This is one of the most famous poems ever written. It is known world wide. // // “When we two parted” p. 613-4 //

// Wednesday, February 8: // // Percy Bysshe Shelley p. 741-4 // // “Mutability” p. 744 The title of the poem literally means the ability to change and transform. Think about that as you read it. // // “To Wordsworth” p. 744-5 // // “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” p. 766-8 // [] // “Ozymandias” p. 768 Ozymandias was another name for Ramesses the Great who was an Egyptian Pharaoh of the 19th dynasty. // []
 * // Wordsworth and Coleridge Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm //**

// Friday, February 10: // // John Keats p. 878-80 // // “A thing of beauty” p. 884-5 // // “When I have fears that I may cease to be” p. 888 // // “La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” p. 899-900 // [] // Mary Wollstonecraft p. 167-70 // // From A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Chapter 4 p. 189-95 // []

// Monday, February 13: // // Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley p. 955-8 // // From The Last Man p. 958-61 // // The Mortal Immortal p. 961-70 // // Romaniticism Exam Review //

// Wednesday, February 15: // // **Romantic Period Exam** //

// Friday, February 17: // // The Victorian Period //

// Monday, February 20: // // John Stuart Mill p. 1043-4 // // From “On Liberty” p. 1051-60 // // Autobiograph. Chapter 5 p. 1070-7 //

// Wednesday, February 22: // // John Ruskin p. 1317-20 // // From Of the Pathetic Fallacy p. 1322-4 // // From The Stones of Venice: The Savageness of Gothic Architecture p. 1324-34 //

// Friday, February 24: // // Alfred Lord Tennyson p. 1109-12 // // “Ulysses” p. 1123-5 // // “The Charge of the Light Brigade” p. 1188-9 // // From Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur p. 1201-11 //

// Monday, February 27: // // Thomas Henry Huxley p. 1427-9 // // From Science and Culture p. 1429-35 // // From Agnosticism and Christianity p. 1436-9 // // **1st Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm** //

// Wednesday, February 29: // // Matthew Arnold p. 1350-4 // // “The Buried Life” p. 1356-8 // // “Dover Beach” p. 1368-9 //

// Friday, March 2: // // Charles Dickens p. 1236-9 // // A Visit to Newgate p. 1239-48 //

// Monday, March 5: // // Elizabeth Barrett Browning p. 1077-9 // // “The Cry of the Children” p. 1079-82 // // From Sonnets of the Portuguese p. 1084-5 // // “Mother and Poet” p. 1106-9 //

// Wednesday, March 7: // // Robert Browning p. 1248-52 // // “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” p. 1253-5 // // “My Last Duchess” p. 1255-6 // // “Abt Vogler” p. 1303-5 //

// Friday, March 9: // // Gerard Manley Hopkins p. 1513-6 // // “The Windhover” p. 1518 // // “Pied Beauty” p. 1518 // // Oscar Wilde p. 1686-7 // // Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray p. 1697-8 //

// Monday, March 12: // // SPRING BREAK //

// Wednesday, March 14: // // SPRING BREAK //

// Friday, March 16: // // SPRING BREAK //

// Monday, March 19: // // The Importance of Being Earnest, Act I p. 1698-1713 //

// Wednesday, March 21: // // The Importance of Being Earnest, Act II p. 1713-1731 //

// Friday, March 23: // // The Importance of Being Earnest, Act III p. 1731-1740 //

// Monday, March 26: // // Rudyard Kipling p. 1793-4 // // “The White Man’s Burden” p. 1821-2 // // Victorian Exam Review //

// Wednesday, March 28: // // **Victorian Period Exam** //

// Friday, March 30: // // Introduction to the Modern Period //

// Monday, April 2: // // Thomas Hardy p. 1851-2 // // “Hap” p. 1868-9 // // “Neutral Tones” p. 1869 // // “The Convergence of the Twain” p. 1878-9 // // “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave” p. 1879-80 // // “He Never Expected Much” p. 1884-5 //
 * // Earnest Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm //**

// Wednesday, April 4: // // Rupert Brooke p. 1955 // // “The Soldier” p. 1955-6 // // Siegfried Sassoon p. 1960 // // “They” p. 1960-1 // // Isaac Rosenberg p. 1966-7 // // “Break of Day in the Trenches” p. 1967 //

// Friday, April 6: // // EASTER BREAK //

// Monday, April 9: // // William Butler Yeats p. 2019-22 // // “The Stolen Child” p. 2022-3 // // “Adam’s Curse” p. 2028 // // “The Second Coming” p. 2036-7 // // “Leda and the Swan” p. 2039 //

// Wednesday, April 11: // // Modernist Manifestos p. 1996-8 // // T. E. Hulme and From Romanticism and Classicism p. 1998-2003 // // “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” p. 2289-93 // // The Wasteland, I. The Burial of the Dead p. 2294-8 //
 * 1) // S. Eliot p. 2286-9 //

// Friday, April 13: // // F. S. Flint and Ezra Pound p. 2003-7 // // An Imagist Cluster p. 2007-9 // // Blast p. 2009-15 //

// Monday, April 16: // // James Joyce & Ulysses Intro p. 2163-6 // // From Ulysses [Proteus] p. 2200-2213 // // **2nd Annotated Review due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm.** //

// Wednesday, April 18: // // D. H. Lawrence p. 2243-5 // // “The Horse Dealer’s Daughter” p. 2258-69 // // Friday, April 20: // // Mina Loy p. 2015-6 // // Feminist Manifesto p. 2016-9 // // Virginia Woolf p. 2080-2 // // A Room of One’s Own, Chapter 3 p. 2113-22 //

// Monday, April 23: // // Katherine Mansfield p. 2332-3 // // “The Garden Party” p. 2346-56 //

// Wednesday, April 25: // // Samuel Beckett p. 2393-4 // // Endgame p. 2394-2411 (to the end of Hamm’s monologue) //

// Friday, April 27: // // Endgame p. 2411 (start @ Nagg)-2420 //

// Monday, April 30: // // Dylan Thomas p. 2444-5 // // “Fern Hill” p. 2448-50 // // “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” p. 2450 // // Ted Hughes p. 2594 // // “Relic” p. 2595 // // “Pike” p. 2595-6 // // “Out” p. 2597-8 // // “Theology” p. 2598 // // **Endgame Essay Exam due via upload to Blackboard by 11:59pm** //

// Wednesday, May 2: // // Salman Rushdie p. 2852-3 // // “The Prophet’s Hair” p. 2854-63 // // Derek Walcott p. 2586-7 // // From Omeros p. 2591-3 //

// Friday, May 4: // // Final Exam Review //


 * // Final Exam: Wednesday, May 9th from 10:15am to 12:15pm. //**