Tuesday (8/28): Welcome to English 15B! Brief overview of Romantic Literature. Read Introduction to Romanticism. Read Wordsworth: “We Are Seven”; “Expostulation and Reply”; “The Tables Turned”; “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud.”
Thursday (8/30): Read Wordsworth: “Resolution and Independence”; “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey.” Read Shelley, Frankenstein.
Tuesday (9/4): Read Wordsworth: “My Heart Leaps Up”; “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”; “The World is too much with us.”
Thursday (9/6): Read Shelley, Frankenstein.
Friday, September 7, is the last day to add classes.
Friday, September 7, is the last day to drop and be eligible for a refund.
Friday, September 7, is the last day to drop without a "W" on your transcript.
Tuesday (9/11): Read Coleridge: “The Eolian Harp”; “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison”; “Kubla Khan”; “Christabel.”
Thursday (9/13): Read Shelley, Frankenstein.
Tuesday (9/18): Read Byron: “Written after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos”; “She Walks in Beauty”; “Darkness”; “So we’ll go no more a roving”; “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: Canto 1 [Sin’s Long Labyrinth].”
Thursday (9/20): Read Shelley, Frankenstein.
Tuesday (9/25): Read P. Shelley: “Mutability”; “Mont Blanc”; “Ozymandias”; “A Song: ‘Men of England’”; “England in 1819”; “Ode to the West Wind.”
Thursday (9/27): Read Keats: “Sleep and Poetry [‘O for Ten Years’]”; “La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad”; “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Read Introduction to Victorian Literature.
Tuesday (10/2): Brief overview of Victorian Literature. Read Barrett Browning: “The Cry of the Children”; “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point.” Read Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Thursday (10/4): Read Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”; “The Lotos-Eaters”; “Ulysses”; “The Charge of the Light Brigade.” Read Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
Tuesday (10/9): Read Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover”; “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”; “My Last Duchess”; “The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed’s Church”; “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came.”
Thursday (10/11): Read Arnold: “The Buried Life”; “Dover Beach.”
Tuesday (10/16): Pass out Midterm Socratic Questions.
Thursday (10/18): Review for Midterm Socratic.
Tuesday (10/23): Midterm Socratic.
Thursday (10/25): Midterm Socratic. Research Paper #1 Due.
Tuesday (10/30): Read Hopkins: “God’s Grandeur”; “The Windhover”; “Pied Beauty”; “Carrion Comfort”; “I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day”; “Thou art indeed just, Lord.” Read Kipling: “The White Man’s Burden”; “If—.”
Thursday (11/1): Read Wilde, “Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray”; “The Importance of Being Earnest.” Read Introduction to the Twentieth Century.
Tuesday (11/6): Brief overview of Modern Literature. Read Eliot: “Tradition and the Individual Talent.” Read Hardy: “Hap”; “The Ruined Maid”; “Channel Firing”; “Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?” Read Joyce, Dubliners: "The Sisters," "An Encounter," and "Araby."
Thursday (11/8): Read Yeats: “When You Are Old”; “No Second Troy”; “The Fascination of What’s Difficult”; “A Coat.” Read Joyce, Dubliners: "Eveline," "After the Race," and "Two Gallants."
Tuesday (11/13): Read “The Second Coming”; “Leda and the Swan”; “Sailing to Byzantium”; “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop.” Read Joyce, Dubliners: "The Boarding House," "A Little Cloud," and "Counterparts."
Thursday (11/15): Read Eliot: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Read Joyce, Dubliners: "Clay," "A Painful Case," and "Ivy Day in the Committee Room."
Friday, November 16, is the last day to drop with a "W" on your transcript.
IF YOU DO NOT DROP BY THIS DATE, YOU WILL DEFINITELY GET A GRADE FOR THIS CLASS.
Tuesday (11/20): Read Eliot: “Journey of the Magi.” Read Joyce, Dubliners: "A Mother" and "Grace."
Thursday (11/22): Thanksgiving Holiday.
Tuesday (11/27): Read Eliot: “The Hollow Men.” Read Joyce, Dubliners: "The Dead."
Thursday (11/29): Research Paper #2 Due. Read Eliot: “The Waste Land.” Read Joyce, Ulysses [From Penelope].
Tuesday (12/4): Pass out questions for Final Examination. Read Eliot: “The Waste Land.”
Thursday (12/6): Review for Final Examination. Read W.H. Auden: "Musée Des Beaux Arts
Tuesday (12/11): Final Examination
Thursday (12/13): Final Examination