Eng 104: Brit. Lit. II – Making It Modern!

Barry Horwitz
Spring ‘09 10 Feb. ‘09

Romantic - Victorian - Modern Times

Texts: Norton Anthology of English Literature, 8th Ed., Vols. D, E, & F.
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights; Charles Dickens, Great Expectations,
Norton Critical Editions.

Tu-Feb. 10 “The Romantic Period” – pages 1 to 8, Norton,

Vol. D.
William Blake: (born 1757- died 1827): Read pp. 76-79;
Romantic Poetry Partners—Explained and Assigned….
             Blake: Songs of Innocence: "The Little Black Boy" page 84; 
"The Chimney Sweeper" 85; "Holy Thursday" 86.
Songs of Experience: "The Clod and the Pebble" page 89;
"Holy Thursday" 90; "The Chimney Sweeper" 90.

 Th-Feb. 12   Blake: "The Sick Rose" 91; "The Tyger" 92, A2-A4; "Ah Sun-flower" 93;
"The Garden of Love" 94; "London" 94; "A Poison Tree" 96. 
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: Introduction: Pages 110-111.
"Proverbs of Hell": 113, up to "Enough! or Too much" page 115.

William Wordsworth:  “Introduction” on pages 243-245. 

                     The Lyrical Ballads (1798):
                      "We Are Seven" 248; "The Tables Turned" 251;
                     "Strange fits of passion have I known" 274;
                     "She dwelt among the untrodden ways" 275, A4-A5;
                      "A slumber did my spirit seal" 276.

  Tu-Feb. 17 Wordsworth – "Resolution and Independence" 302;

                      "I wandered lonely as a cloud" 305;
                      "My heart leaps up" 306;
                      "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802” - 317;
                      "The world is too much with us" 319.
“Lines Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey” 258.

“Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1802): “Emotion Recollected in

Tranquility” - 273-274.  
“Resolution and Independence” 302;
“I wondered lonely as a cloud” 305;
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality” 306; “The Solitary Reaper” 314
“London 1802” 319; “It is a beauteous evening” 317
 “Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways” 320
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The Prelude, or Growth of a Poet’s Mind--

Book First: 322-337.
Book Tenth: “France, The Revolution: Paris & England” 371-375.

Th-Feb. 19. Wordsworth (continued), and Samuel Taylor Coleridge—

Coleridge: “Introduction” on pages 424-426.
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” 430.

Tu-Feb. 24 Coleridge (con’t.): “Kubla Khan” 446;

“Christabel” 449 “Dejection: An Ode” 466;
“To William Wordsworth” 471.

Biographia Literaria: “Mr. Wordsworth’s earlier poems” 474;

“On fancy and imagination” 476.

Th-Feb. 26 George Gordon, Lord Byron: “Intro.” 607-611.

“She Walks in Beauty” 612;
“When We Two Parted” 613;
Don Juan 669, Canto I: pp. 670-697, A5-A6.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Introduction” - pages 741-744. “To

Wordsworth” page 744; “Ozymandias” 768; “O World…” A7-A9.

Tues, March 3 Shelley: . “A Song: ‘Men of England’” 770; “England in 1819”- 771;
“Ode to the West Wind” 772; “To a Sky-Lark” 817; “Adonais” 822-837.

Shelley: “A Defence of Poetry”— pp. 837-844.

John Keats: Read: “Introduction”– Pages 878-880.

“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” 880;
“Ode to a Nightingale” 903; “Ode on a Grecian Urn” 905;
“Ode on Melancholy” 906; “To Autumn” 925, A10-A11.

Th-March 5
Keats: “Ode on Melancholy” 906. “To Autumn” 925.

Planning Your Romantic Poetry Essay: Due on Monday:

Three page analysis on one of the four Keats Odes, taking any four
lines and developing a theme from the poem itself, as discussions.
 Analyze words, diction, mood, imagery, emotion—discuss your choice
and ongoing poetry analysis in class, today, for your Monday essay!

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Monday-March 9 - DUE:Three page analysis, using one of Keats’s

ODES, making a connection to one of the other poems we
have read and analyzed w/yr RPP (Three pages = 450
wds/double-spaced, Yes).

Tu-March 10 Present your essay in class as MT-Exercise / M-T Exam.

Keats, again. *****

Vol. E., “The Victorian Age” – Read pp. 979-

984
READ: Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, Norton Critical Ed., Ch. 1-3.—
Take Notes: Work with your Victorian Prose Partner, as before.

Th-March 12 Wuthering Heights, Norton Critical Edition, Chapters 4-12.

Tu-March 17 Bronte, Chapters 13-24. VPP – Pick two passages to analyze.

Th-March 19 Bronte, Chapters 25-34.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott” 1114; “The Lotus-

Eaters” 1119; “Ulysses” 1123 ; “Tithonus” 1125, A14-A15; “Break,
Break, Break” 1126; “The Charge of the Light Brigade” 1188.

Tu-March 24 Robert Louis Stevenson, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde. Pages 1645-

Th-March 26 Robert Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” 1253; “My Last
Duchess” 1255; “The Bishop Orders His Tomb” 1251; “Fra Lippo Lippi”
1271; “Andrea del Sarto” 1280.
Tu-March 31 Matthew Arnold, “To Marguerite” 1354-1355; “The Buried Life” 1356; “The
Scholar Gypsy”1361; “Dover Beach” 1368; from “The Function of Criticism”
pp. 1384-1397.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”1516; “Pied Beauty” 1518.

Th-April 2 Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (1860), Ch’s 1-10, VPPs.

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Easter Work - April 4 -13: Read Charles Dickens , Great Expectations, Ch’s 10-59—

Read the Whole Novel over Easter--yes, for FUN!

Also, See the MOVIE of The Importance of Being Earnest—a comedy!

Mon-April 13 - ESSAY #2 DUE: Bronte OR Dickens—See essays in

the Norton Critical Editions OR link it to a Victorian poem we
have read.

Tu-April 14 Dickens, Great Expectations (1860), Chapters 33-59 [VPP].

Th-April 16 Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession (1898), pp. 1746-1790.

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover”1518; “Felix Randal” 1520;

“Spring and Fall” 1521; ”No worst, there is none” 1522.

Tu-April 21 Oscar Wilde, *The Importance of Being Earnest (1899) pp. 1699-1740:

*Library Viewings of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest--

* Thurs-Sun., Times TBA. DVD on Reserve in Library! *****

The 20th Century & After – pp.1827-1834, Vol. F.

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1902), pp. 1890-1947.

Th-April 23 A.E. Houseman: “Loveliest of Trees” 1948; “To an Athlete Dying Young” 1949;
“Terence, This is Stupid Stuff”1950; “The Chestnut Casts His Flambeaux”1953.

Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier” – pages 1955-1956.

 Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for Doomed Youth” 1971; “Miners” 1973; “Dulce et
Decorum Est” 1974.

Robert Graves: “Goodbye to All That” 1985-1987.

Ezra Pound: “In a Station of the Metro” 2008.

W. B. Yeats: “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” 2025; “When You Are Old” 2026;
“No Second Troy” 2029; “A Coat” 2029; “September 1913” - 2030; “Easter,
1916” - 2031

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Tu-April 28 W.B. Yeats: “The Second Coming” 2036; “Leda and the Swan” 2039,
A21-A23; “Sailing to Byzantium” 2046; “Among Schoolchildren” 2041; “Byzantium”
2044; “Lapis Lazuli” 2046; “The Circus Animals’ Desertion 2051”

Th-April 30 James Joyce: “Araby”; “The Dead”; “Lestrygonians” (from Ulysses).

Tu-May 5 D.H. Lawrence: “Odour of Chrysanthemums”; “The Horse Dealer’s

Daughter”; ”Why the Novel Matters”; “Piano” 2275, A23-24; “Snake”
2278.

Th-May 7 T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; “The Waste Land”;
“The Hollow Men”; “Journey of the Magi”

Katherine Mansfield, “The Garden Party” 2246.

George Orwell, “Shooting an Elephant” – 2384.

Mon-May 11 - Modern ESSAY, #3 DUE!

Tu-May 12: W.H. Auden, Musee des Beaux Arts” 2428; “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”
2429; “The Unknown Citizen” 2431.

Dylan Thomas, “The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the
Flower”; “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
Philip Larkin, “Church Going”; “MCMXIV”; “This Be The
Verse”

Nadine Gordimer, “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”

Derek Walcott, “A Far Cry from Africa”
Th- May 14 Alice Munro, “Walker Brothers Cowboy”
J.M Coeztee, from Waiting for the Barbarians

Review for Final Exam.

Final Exam Week: May 18-21