| 4 April, | Roll, Info sheet, Intro to books and format of class, Diagnostic info sheet |
| 6 April |
Tennyson: Mariana, Ulysses, The Lotos-Eaters, Morte d'Arthur FitzGerald, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Mill, What is Poetry? Start reading Hardy, Far From the Madding Crowd* |
| 11 April |
Tennyson, Idylls (Pelleas) [Photocopy], Crossing the Bar E. Browning, Sonnets fm Portuguese 21-2, 32, 43, Aurora Leigh (selections) Macauley, from A Review of Southey's Colloquies |
| 13 April |
R. Browning, Porphyria's Lover, Soliloquy of the Spanish
Cloister, My Last Duchess, Home-Thoughts (both), Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, Fra Lippo Lippi Carlyle, selections from Sartor Resartus, French Revolution |
| 18 April |
Browning, Caliban upon Setebos, Rabbi Ben Ezra Arnold, Growing Old [On Pelleas photocopy], Scholar Gypsy, Dover Beach, Study of Poetry (browse), Thyrsis*** Darwin, Descent of Man [selections] Ruskin, Stones of Venice, Storm-Cloud of the 19th Century |
| 20 April |
C. Rossetti, sampling + Uphill, Goblin-Market D.G. Rossetti, sampling + Blessed Damozel, My Sister's Sleep, House of Life Meredith, Modern Love [selections] |
| 25 April |
Hopkins section in the Norton, but pay particular attention to: God's Grandeur, The Windhover, Pied Beauty, Binsey Poplars, Dun Scotus's Oxford, I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day Lewis Carroll, Jabberwocky, and Humpty's Explication of Jabberwocky Rossetti sonnet |
| 27 April |
Paper 1 Due! Catch up / Review |
| 2 May |
Swinburne, Ave Atque Vale (1631) Pater, selections from The Renaissance(1636-44) Industrialism: Progess or Decline? section (1696-1718) |
| 4 May |
Dowson, Cynara, They Are Not Long, Carthusians (1894) Mary E. Coleridge, The Other Side of a Mirror, The Witch (1861) Kipling, Danny Deever, Widow at Windsor, The Ladies, Recessional (1888) Wilde, Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray (1760) |
| 9 May |
Midterm Exam** (Blue books not needed) |
| 11 May |
Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (1761) |
**Note: By the midterm (May 9) you should have read up through Chapter 32 of Hardy. By the end of the following week (May 18) you should be finished with the book.
***Please note that Arnold's Thyrsis was announced as an addendum in class the week prior to the midterm! Furthermore, note that I narrowed several of the longer prose selections in class on May 4th.
Last updated: 8 May 2000