English 206-080 Honors
Spring 2000, MWF 10:10-11:00
Pearson 104
Prof. Grossman
ENGL 206: British Literature II
REQUIRED TEXTS
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William Blake, Songs
of Innocence (Dover) ISBN 04862276
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William Blake, Songs
of Experience (Dover) ISBN 0486246361
[See other version.]
And
another
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William Wordsworth, Favorite Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486270734
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Dover) ISBN
0486223051
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Jane Austen, Emma (Penguin) ISBN 0140430105
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486275582
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John Keats, Lyric Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486268713
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Alfred Tennyson, Selected Poems (Dover) ISBN 0486272826
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Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (Penguin) ISBN 0140430016
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese and Other Poems
(Dover) ISBN 0486270521
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Robert Browning, My Last Duchess and Other Poems (Dover) ISBN
0486277836
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Christina Rosetti, Goblin Market (Dover) ISBN 0486245160
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Thomas Hardy, Selected Poems (Dover) ISBN 048628753X
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Wilfred Owen, World War I British Poets (Dover)
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T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land & Other Poems (Dover)
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Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway (Harcourt, Brace) ISBN 0156628708
Please use the editions listed. The "isbn" number uniquely indicates
the edition and can be used for ordering books. Books will be
available at the Bookstore. (Many of these books cost
$1.00. We will not be using the Norton Anthology.)
Recommended reference book: M.H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms
(available at Morris Library in the reference department, PN41.A184 1993).
REQUIREMENTS
One in-class report on an author or a topic.
Four 4-page, close-reading papers, due:
- Wednesday, March 1
- Friday, March 17
- Monday, April 10
- Friday, April 28
For one paper, you may substitute an intellectually creative response
to the text (a parody, a collage, a soundtrack, etc.).
One final 6-page paper, due Wednesday, May 17.
In addition:
- You are encouraged to hold individual conferences with me during the
semester.
In April, a conference to discuss your writing will be required.
- You must use your email account. We may occasionally have assignments
and questions handled via email.
- More than two absences will lower your final grade; class
participation is expected.
- When the schedule lists books of poetry, the specific poems upon
which we will concentrate will be assigned in class.
Finally, a word about academic integrity.
Always note your sources and do not hesitate to ask me about the correct
ways of handling and citing outside sources.
SCHEDULE
2/9 Introduction
2/11 William Blake, Songs of Innocence
2/14 William Blake, Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
2/16 William Wordsworth
2/18 William Wordsworth
2/21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
2/23 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
2/25 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
2/28 Coleridge and Mary Robinson, "Haunted Beach"
3/1 Jane Austen, Emma Paper #1 due
3/3 Jane Austen, Emma
3/6 Jane Austen, Emma
3/8 Jane Austen, Emma
3/10 Jane Austen, Emma
3/13 Jane Austen, Emma
3/15 Jane Austen, Emma
3/17 Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats Paper #2 due
3/20 Shelley and Keats
3/22 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
3/24 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
3/29 [Spring Break]
3/31 [Spring Break]
4/2 [Spring Break]
4/3 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
4/5 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
4/7 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
4/10 Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights Paper #3 due
4/12 Alfred Tennyson
4/14 Alfred Tennyson
4/17 Elizabeth and Robert Browning
4/19 Elizabeth and Robert Browning
4/21 Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
4/24 Thomas Hardy
4/26 Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon
4/28 Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon Paper #4 due
5/1 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/3 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/5 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/8 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/10 Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
5/12 T.S. Eliot, "Prufrock" & "Hamlet and His Problems"
5/15 T.S. Eliot, "Prufrock" & "Hamlet and His Problems"
5/17 Conclusion Final paper due
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