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ENGL 2122 / British Literature II / Fall 2005
L. Buechling E-Mail Address: linda.buechling@darton.edu
Office Hours: MWF 9:30 – 11, 1 – 2 / T R 9:30 - 11, 12:30 - 1 / and by appointment
Office: F120A Office Phone: 317-6877 Fax: 420-1106
Welcome to the telecourse section for English 2122 / British Literature II. This course will air on Tuesday and Thursday on Cable Channel 19 between 8:00 a.m. and 9:15 a.m. Rebroadcast times are set for Wednesday and Friday between 12:00 a.m. and 1:15 a.m. The syllabus is available here for your convenience. Copies of the course guide may be picked up from my office (check the door of Room F-120A). Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions you may have throughout the course of the semester.
This course is a study of British literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, encompassing the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods. In this class, we will survey a wide range of works, authors, and trends that exemplify each of these periods. Readings and discussions will form a basis for out-of-class analytical and research essays and provide preparation for in-class exams. For detailed course description, objectives, and requirements, see Comprehensive Course Guide.
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Required Text: The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume II, 7th Edition
Evaluation: 2 Comprehensive Tests Each test is 25% of final grade and will include an analytical essay to
be completed outside of class and turned in on the day of the test.
Term Paper This research assignment will count as 25% of final grade.
Final Exam Exam is 25% with contents weighted toward material covered in final third of the semester. Exam will include an analytical essay.
Assignment Schedule:
Week One (August 23 - 25)
Introduction to Course
“The Persistence of English” (xlvii)
Week Two (August 30 – September 1)
Introduction to The Romantic Period (1)
William Blake (35) Songs of Innocence “The Lamb” (45), “The Chimney Sweeper” (46), “Holy Thursday” (47), Songs of Experience “The Tyger” (54), “The Chimney Sweeper” (52), “Holy Thursday” (51)
Robert Burns (99) “To A Mouse” (105), “Auld Lang Syne” (108), “Green grow the rashes” (101), “A Red, Red Rose” (115)
Week Three (September 6 - 8)
Selections from special section on The French Revolution and the Spirit of the Age (117)
Edmund Burke (121) “Reflections on the French Revolution”
Mary Wollstonecraft (128) “Vindications of the Rights of Men”
Thomas Paine (133) “The Rights of Man”
Apocalyptic Expectations (137)
Week Four (September 13 - 15)
William Wordsworth (219) “Simon Lee” (222), “We Are Seven” (224), “I Wandered Lonely” (284), “The World is Too Much With Us” (297)
Dorothy Wordsworth (383) “The Grasmere Journals (387)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (416) “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (422)
Week Five (September 20 – 22)
George Gordon, Lord Byron (551) “She Walks in Beauty” (556), “Don Juan” (621)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (698) “Ozymandias” (725), “Men of England” (727), “Ode to the West Wind” (730), “Hellas: Worlds on Worlds” (769)
John Keats (823) “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (845), “Ode on Melancholy” (853)
Week Six (September 27 – 29)
Review for Test I
Tentative Date for Test I and Due Date for Essay I = Thursday, September 29
Week Seven (October 4 - 6)
Introduction to the Victorian Age (1043)
Thomas Carlyle (1066) “Sartor Resartus” (1077), “Past and Present” (1110)
John Stuart Mill (1137) “On Liberty” (1146)
Week Eight (October 11) (No Class on Thursday, October 13)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1173) “Sonnets from the Portuguese” (1179)
Robert Browning (1345) “Porphyria’s Lover” (1349) “Home Thoughts from Abroad” (1358)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1198) “Ulysses” (1213), “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (1280)
Week Nine (October 18 – 20)
Matthew Arnold (1471) “Culture and Anarchy” (1528), “Dover Beach” (1492)
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1648) “God’s Grandeur” (1651), “The Windhover” (1652), “Spring and Fall” (1655)
Week Ten (October 25 -27)
John Ruskin (1425) “The Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth Century” (1443)
Victorian Issues “Industrialism: Progress or Decline” (1696), Selected Readings (1697 – 1719)
Christina Rosetti (1583) “In the Artist’s Studio” (1586), “When I Am Dead” (1584)
Week Eleven (November 1 – 3)
Review for Test II / Tentative Date for Test II and Due Date for Essay II = Thursday, November 3
Week Twelve (November 8 - 10)
Introduction to the Twentieth Century (1897)
Thomas Hardy (1916) “Channel Firing” (1944), “He Never Expected Much” (1951)
William Butler Yeats (2085) “Sailing to Byzantium” (2109), “Down by Salley Gardens” (2091), “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (2092)
Week Thirteen (November 15 - 17)
Voices from World War I (2048)
Rupert Brooke (2049) “The Soldier” (2050)
Edward Thomas (2051) “Tears” (2052)
Siegfried Sassoon (2054) “The Rear Guard” (2056)
Isaac Rosenberg (2061) “Break of Day in the Trenches” (2062)
Wilfred Owen (2066) “Dulce et Decorum Est” (2069)
Week Fourteen (November 22) and Week Fifteen (November 29 and December 1) (No Class on Nov. 24)
James Joyce (2231) “Araby” (2236), “The Dead” (2240)
D.H. Lawrence (2313) “Odour of Chrysanthemums” (2316)
Week Sixteen (December 6 - 8)
T.S. Eliot (2360) “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (2364)
W.H. Auden (2500) “Musee de Beaux Arts” (2505), “Shield of Achilles” (2511)
Dylan Thomas (2516) “Poem in October” (2521) “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” (2524)
Ted Hughes (2587) “Wind” (2587), “Pike” (2589), “Theology” (2590)
Seamus Heaney (2818) “The Skunk” (2825)
Final Exam = Thursday, December 15 at 8:00 – 10:00 a.m.
Telecourse Students:
This course is broadcast on Channel 19 Tuesday and Thursday at 8 a.m. Rebroadcasts are scheduled for Wednesday and Friday at 12 a.m Tests for telecourse students will be administered in the Writing Lab (F202). Times for testing will be announced by the instructor prior to scheduled test dates as noted in the syllabus.
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