English 205:
Class Schedule

Instructor: Ann Warren
Office: Office Village 4
Phone: (310) 233-4247
Office Hours: By appointment
E-mail: annw708@earthlink.net

Course Schedule: Week 1 Course Schedule: Week 2 Course Schedule: Week 3 Course Schedule: Week 4 Course Schedule: Week 5

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1June 16 INTRODUCTION
Introduction to English Literature
The Role of Poetry in Early Cultures
Writing About Literature
Go to Lecture 1
No Discussion Questions due today		Reading: Bede, "Caedmon's Hymn," 24
"The Dream of the Rood," 27
"The Wanderer," 111
"The Wife's Lament," 113
Week 1 June 17
Old English Literature
Go to Lecture 2
No Discussion Questions due today 		Reading: Beowulf, 29
Wace, both excerpts from Le Roman de Brut, 120 and 127
Layamon, both excerpts, 125 and 127
Week 1 June 18
Old English Literature
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 1		 Reading: Beowulf, 29
Wace, both excerpts from Le Roman de Brut, 120 and 127
Layamon, both excerpts, 125 and 127
Week 1 June 19
The Middle Ages
Go to Lecture 3
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 160
Week 2 June 23
The Middle Ages
Go to Lecture 4
Go to Discussion Questions 2		 Reading: Chaucer, from The Canterbury Tales:
"The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," 256;
NOTE: To read the Wife of Bath's Tale in Modern English, see The Medieval Sourcebook
Week 2 June 24
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 5
No Discussion Questions due today
quill penPaper 1 due		 Reading: Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, 383
Malory, Morte Darthur, 438
Week 2 June 25
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 6
Go to Discussion Questions 3		 Reading: More, Utopia, 521
Wyatt,
  • "The long love..." 594
  • "Whoso list to hunt," 595
  • "They flee from me," 599
  • "Forget not yet," 601
  • "Who list his health and ease retain," 603
Week 2 June 26
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 7
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, 1022
Week 3 June 30
The Sixteenth Century
No new lecture today
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, 1022
Week 3 July 1
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 8
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Shakespeare, King Lear, 1139
Week 3 July 2
The Sixteenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 4
 Reading: Shakespeare, King Lear, 1139
Week 3 July 3
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 9
No Discussion Questions due today
quill penPaper 2 due		 Reading: Donne,
  • "The Flea," 1263
  • "The Canonization," 1267
  • "A Valediction: Of Weeping," 1271
  • "The Bait," 1274
  • "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," 1275
  • "Holy Sonnet 10," 1296
  • "Holy Sonnet 14," 1297
Herrick,
  • "Delight in Disorder," 1656
  • "To the Virgins..." 1659
  • "The Night-Piece..." 1663
Herbert,
  • "Easter Wings," 1609
  • "Denial," 1613
  • "The Pulley," 1620
Crashaw,
  • "To the Infant Martyrs," 1644
  • "In the Holy Nativity..." 1645
Vaughan,
  • "They Are All Gone..." 1634
  • "The Waterfall," 1638
Marvell, " To His Coy Mistress," 1703
Week 4 July 7
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 10
No Discussion Questions due today 		Reading: Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, 1461
Week 4 July 8
The Seventeenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 5		 Reading: Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, 1461
Week 4 July 9
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 11
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Milton, selections from Paradise Lost, 1830:
  • Books 1, 5, and 9
  • Optional: Books 4, 8, and 10
Week 4 July 10
The Seventeenth Century
No new lecture today
Go to Discussion Questions 6 		Reading: Milton, selections from Paradise Lost, 1830:
  • Books 1, 5, and 9
  • Optional: Books 4, 8, and 10
Week 5 July 14
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Go to Lecture 12
No Discussion Questions due today		 Reading: Gay, The Beggar's Opera, 2611
Week 5 July 15
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Go to Lecture 13
Go to Discussion Questions 7		 Reading: Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Parts 1 and 4, 2323
WEEK 5 July 16 CATCH YOUR BREATH DAY No reading assignment for today
Week 5 July 17 FINAL EXAM
quill penFinal Exam due

No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately.

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