MWF 9:00-9:50; Grainger G18; Dr. Lund (Grainger G10; 395-2168; Office Hours:  MW 11:00-11:50; TTR 1:45-2:45; and by appointment. http://web.lwc.edu/staff/mlund/lundmc.html

Assignments are to the Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2, Seventh Edition unless identified as online.

August     29:      The unrecognized Star Wars Prequel's Prequel (no reading assignment)

                31:      Tennyson, "The Epic"1842  (but omitting "The Passing of Arthur");

                            William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience 

September 2:       Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho   Volume One, Chapters I-VII   online at
                            http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext02/udolf10.txt

                  5:      Labor Day; no class

                  7:      Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Volume One

                  9:      William Wordsworth, from Lyrical Ballads (but not the "Preface")

                12:      Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho   Volume One, Chapters VIII-XIII

                14:      William Wordsworth, "Michael"

                16:      No class meeting; Review of sentence structure

                19:      Coleridge, Christabel , "Frost at Midnight"

                21:      Dorothy Wordsworth, from her Journals

                22:      Anna Letitia Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson

                26:      Percy Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" "Men of England" "To a Skylark"

                28:      Byron, Don Juan Canto 1

                30:      Review; Exam Part One  

 October    3:      Exam Part Two

                 5:       Keats, "The Eve of St. Agnes"; "Ode to a Nightingale" 

                 7:       Sir Walter Scott, from Heart of the Midlothian

                12:      Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach" Paper Due  

                14:      George Eliot, Middlemarch (Volume 1, chapters 1-6); online at

                                  http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/ and then search their index

 * * * Fall Break * * *

                19:      Charles Dickens 

                21:      Tennyson Idylls of the King"  Lancelot and Elaine"  (1859)

online at:             http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/t/tennyson/alfred/idylls/

                     or  http://nac.tamu.edu/x075bb/poems/mortedArthur.html

                    or   http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/610

                24:      Research

                26:      George Eliot, Middlemarch (Volume 1, chapters 7-12.)

                28:      Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" "Fra Lippo Lippi"

                31:      Elizabeth Gaskell

November 2:       Tennyson,  Idylls of the King "Guinevere" (1859)

                 4 :       Elizabeth Barrett Browning, from Aurora Leigh

                 7:        Exam Part One

                 9:        Exam Part Two

                11:       Christina Rossetii

                14:       Thomas Hardy's poetry

                16:       Light Verse (pp. 1662-1678)

                18:       Tennyson, Idlylls of the King: The Holy Grail and Others Poems "The Holy Grail,"
                                            and "The Coming of Arthur" (1869)

                21:       Michael Field

 *    *    *    Thanksgiving    *    *    *

                 28:      Kipling, "The Man Who Would be King"

December 30:      Tennyson, Idylls of the King "The Last Tournament" (1972)

                   2:      Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Act I

                  5:       Gerald Manly Hopkins,  Paper Due

                  7:       Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest Acts II and III  

                  9:       Tennyson, Idylls of the King "Balin and Balan" (1885)

                16 :      Final Exam :  11:30-2:00
 

Course Requirements:   read in advance the material listed below for discussion on the dates shown (200 points); write one short critical paper (100 points); write one paper including historical and critical sources (100 points); write two essay exams on material read and discussed in class (200 points); write an essay final exam on the material of the course (200 points).  Unannounced quizzes will be given to determine if the reading is being done on time; the average of these quizzes is worth 200 points.  You should save all returned written work from the course.  Grading scale:  90%=A; 80%=B; 70%=C; 60%=D; less than 60%=F.
Policies:  See the College Catalog and the Student Handbook.  Unexcused absences for more than 10% of classes may
lower a final grade one letter.  Absence, excused and/or unexcused, from more than 25% of classes may be an automatic F
in the course.  Students are expected to abide by the college Honor Code.
Inclement Weather:  If the college closes for inclement weather, students should continue work as outlined above.


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