English 205:
Class Schedule

Instructor: Ann Warren
Office: NEA 273
Phone: (310) 233-4247
Office Hours: Monday through Thursday 9-9:30 a.m.
E-mail: annw708@earthlink.net

Course Schedule: Week 1 Course Schedule: Weeks 2-5 Course Schedule: Weeks 6-9 Course Schedule: Weeks 10-15 Course Schedule: Final Exam

COURSE SCHEDULE

Week 1 Feb. 6-11 INTRODUCTION
Introduction to English Literature
The Role of Poetry in Early Cultures
Writing About Literature
Go to Lecture 1
No Discussion Questions due this week

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 Reading: Bede, "Caedmon's Hymn," 24
"The Dream of the Rood," 27
"The Wanderer," 111
"The Wife's Lament," 113
Week 2 Feb. 13-18
Old English Literature
Go to Lecture 2
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 3 Feb. 20-25
The Middle Ages
Go to Lecture 3
Go to Discussion Questions 2		 Reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, 160
Week 4 Feb. 27-Mar. 3
The Middle Ages
Go to Lecture 4
Go to Discussion Questions 3		 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 Librarius.com
Week 5 Mar. 5-10
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 5
Go to Discussion Questions 4
 Reading: Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe, 383
Malory, Morte Darthur, 438
Week 6 Mar. 12-17
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 6
No Discussion Questions due this week
quill penPaper 1 due		 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 wealth and ease retain," 603
Week 7 Mar. 19-24
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 7
Go to Discussion Questions 5		 Reading: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, 1022
Week 8 Mar. 26-31
The Sixteenth Century
Go to Lecture 8
Go to Discussion Questions 6		 Reading: Shakespeare, King Lear, 1139
***************SPRING BREAK APRIL 2-7****************
Week 9 Apr. 9-14
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 9
No Discussion Questions due this week
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 10 Apr. 16-21
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 10
Go to Discussion Questions 7 		Reading: Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, 1461
Week 11 Apr. 23-28
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 11
Go to Discussion Questions 8		 Reading: Milton, selections from Paradise Lost, 1830:
  • Books 1, 5, and 9
  • Optional: Books 4, 8, and 10
Week 12 Apr. 30-May 5
The Seventeenth Century
Go to Lecture 12
No Discussion Questions due this week		 Reading: Pepys, The Diary, 2122
Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2145
Defoe, Roxana, 2284
Week 13 May 7-12
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Go to Lecture 13
quill penPaper 3 due		 Reading: Gay, The Beggar's Opera, 2611
Week 14 May 14-19
The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
Go to Lecture 14
Go to Discussion Questions 9		 Reading: Swift, Gulliver's Travels, Parts 1 and 4, 2323
Week 15 May 21-26 CATCH YOUR BREATH Week No reading assignment for this week
Week 16 FINAL EXAM
quill penFinal Exam due		 The final exam is due on or before Tuesday, May 29th, by midnight.

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

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