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=English 2323: British Literature =
 * v **Reading Assignments ** v **

Note: This list is subject to change.

**Part I ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ **
1. **The Romantic Period** (1785-1830) pp. 1-22 Handouts: The Romantic Revolt Neoclassic Literature/Romantic Literature Romantic Themes in Literature

2. **William Blake** - Introduction pp. 76-78 “Introduction” p. 81 “The Lamb” p. 83 “The Chimney Sweeper” p.85 “Holy Thursday” p. 86 “Nurse’s Song” p. 86 “Holy Thursday” p. 90 “The Chimney Sweeper” p. 90 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Nurse’s Song” p. 90 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“The Tyger” p. 92 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Handout: Chimney Sweepers

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">3. **Robert Burns** - Introduction pp. 129-131 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“To a Mouse” p. 135-136 (A reading can be found on youtube at this link [|"To A Mouse"]) <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“To a Louse” p. 136-137 (This site has translations of specific words at the end of the poem [|To a Louse]) <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Auld Lang Syne” p. 137-138

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">4. **Mary Wollstonecraft** - Introduction pp. 167-170 Make sure you read the handout!!! Mary Wollstonecraft is considered to be the first feminist. However, while she wanted women to be educated she stopped short of demanding equal treatment as men in all areas. Those ideas came much later. However, this essay is important as it laid the groundwork in this area. //<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">A Vindication of the Rights of Woman // <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">Introduction p. 170-174 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Handout: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">5. **William Wordsworth** - Introduction pp. 243-245 See Ms. Mullinax's section for information on Wordsworth and Coleridge. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“We Are Seven” p. 248-249 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Expostulation and Reply” p. 250-251 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">Preface to //Lyrical Ballads// pp. 262-263 //<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">The Subject and Language of Poetry //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> pp. 263-269 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“I wandered lonely as a cloud” p. 305-306 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“My heart leaps up” p. 306 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">6. **Samuel Taylor Coleridge** - Introduction pp. 424-426 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” pp. 430-446 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 16px;">[] Special Thanks to Lucas for this.

<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Kubla Khan” pp. 446-448

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">7. **Jane Austen**—Handout: //Sense & Sensibility// <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">View Movie

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 27px;">Part 3 **

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">8. **George Gordon, Lord Byron** - Introduction pp. 607-611 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos” pp. 611-612 See Ms. Mullinax's page for information. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“She walks in beauty” pp. 612-613 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“They say that Hope is happiness” p. 613 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“When we two parted” p. 613-614 //<span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage //<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';"> p. 617 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">From Canto 1 “Sin’s Long Labyrinth” p. 617-619 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">From Canto 3 “Once More Upon the Waters” pp. 619-622 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">Handout: Characteristics of the Byronic Hero

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">9. **Percy Bysshe Shelley** - Introduction pp. 741-744 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Mutability” p. 744 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Ozymandias” p. 768 See Ms. Mullinax's page. <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Adonais” pp. 822-823 (Stanzas 1-8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“To Night” p. 819 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“To - [Music, when soft voices die]” p. 820

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">10. **John Keats** - Introduction pp. 878-880 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” p. 883 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“When I have fears that I may cease to be” p. 888 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad” pp. 899-900 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Ode to a Nightingale” pp. 903-905 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Ode on Melancholy” pp. 907-908 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“The Eve of St. Agnes” pp. 888-898

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">11. **The Victorian Age** (1830-1901) pp. 979-999 **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 19px;">or **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">Handouts <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">Handouts: The Victorian Period <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif'; font-size: 15px;">The Victorian Novel

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">12. **Elizabeth Barrett Browning** - Introduction pp. 1077-1079 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">#21 (“Say over again, and yet once over again”) p. 1084 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">#22 (“When our two souls stand up erect and strong”) p. 1084 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">#32 (“The first time that the sun rose on thine oath”) pp. 1084-1085 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">#43 (“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”) p. 1085

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">13. **Alfred, Lord Tennyson** - Introduction pp. 1109-1112 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“The Lady of Shalott” pp. 1114-1118 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">From “In Memoriam A. H. H.” pp. 1138-1143 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Crossing the Bar” pp. 1211-1212

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">14. **Robert Browning** - Introduction pp. 1248-1252 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Porphyria’s Lover” pp. 1252-1253 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” pp. 1253-1255 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“My Last Duchess” pp. 1255-1256

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">15. **Lewis Carroll** - Introduction pp. 1529-1530 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Jabberwocky” p. 1530 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Humpty Dumpty’s Explication of ‘Jabberwocky’” pp. 1530-1531 <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">“The White Knight’s Song” pp. 1532-1533

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">16. **The Twentieth Century** (a portion) Read p.1827 through the bottom of p.1834

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">17. **Thomas Hardy** - Introduction pp. 1851-1852 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“The Ruined Maid” p. 1872 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“The Convergence of the Twain” pp. 1878-1879 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” pp. 1879-1880 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“The Workbox” pp. 1882-1883

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">18. **A. E. Housman** - Introduction p. 1948 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Lovelist of Trees” pp. 1948-1949 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“When I Was One-and-Twenty” p. 1949 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“To an Athlete Dying Young” pp. 1949-1950 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Terence, This Is Stupid Stuff” pp. 1950-1952 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">Handout: “From Poison to Plague” by Stephanie Pain

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';">19. **William Butler Yeats** - Introduction pp. 2019-2022 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“Down by the Salley Gardens” p. 2024 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” p. 2025 <span style="font-family: 'times new roman','serif';">“When You Are Old” p. 2026


 * <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 21px;">Final Exam **