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Course
Overview
Course
Policies
Requirements
Learning
Objectives
Tips
for Success
Reading
Schedule
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Reading
Schedule
| Jan.
30
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Introduction
to the course
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| Feb.
1
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Geoffrey Chaucer.
"The General Prologue" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale," from
Chaucer's Canterbury Tales [Coghill's
translation]
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| Feb.
6
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Chaucer.
"The Wife of Bath's Tale" (continued) |
| Feb.
8
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Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight
(156-210)
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| Feb.
13
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Sir
Gawain and the Green Knight (continued)
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| Feb.
20
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Margery Kempe.
From The Book of Margery Kempe
(367-79)
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| Feb.
22
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Everyman
(445-67)
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Feb.
27
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Queen Elizabeth I.
"The Doubt of Future Foes"; "On Monsieur's Departure" (594-95)
Sir
Thomas Wyatt the Elder.
"Whoso List to Hunt" (527)
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| Mar.
1
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Edmund Spenser.
From Amoretti Sonnet 67 "Lyke as a huntsman after weary chace" and Sonnet 75 "One day I wrote her name upon the
strand" (866-68)
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| Mar.
6
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Sir Philip Sidney.
From Astrophil and Stella
Sonnet 1 "Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to
show" (917)
William
Shakespeare.
Sonnet 3 "Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest,"
Sonnet 18
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Sonnet 130 "My
mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun," and Sonnet 138
"When my love swears that she is made of truth" (1029, 1031,
1040-41)
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| Mar.
8
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Christopher Marlowe.
The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus
(990-1023)
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| Mar.
15
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William Shakespeare.
Hamlet
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| Mar.
20
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Shakespeare.
Hamlet
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| Mar.
22 |
Shakespeare.
Hamlet
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| Mar.
27
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Paper Outline Due
Ben
Jonson.
"To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William
Shakespeare, and What He Hath Left Us"
(1414-16)
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| Mar.
29
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John Donne.
"The Flea," "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and Holy
Sonnet 14 (1236,
1248-49, 1271) |
| Apr.
3
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Paper Due
George
Herbert.
"Redemption," "The Pulley," and "Love (3)"
(1597, 1610, 1614-15)
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| Apr.
5
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Andrew Marvell.
"To His Coy Mistress" (1688-91)
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Apr.
10
Apr.
12
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spring break
spring break
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| Apr.
17
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Aemilia Lanyer.
"Eve's Apology in Defense of Women," from Salve Deus Rex
Judaeorum (1285-87)
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| Apr.
24
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John Milton.
Paradise Lost Book
I, lines 1-270 (1815-24)
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| Apr.
26
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Milton.
Paradise Lost Book
IX, lines 192-1189
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| May
1
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Mary Astell.
From Some Reflections upon Marriage
(2281-84)
Aphra
Behn.
"The Disappointment" (2167-79)
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| May
3
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Anne Finch,
Countess of Winchilsea.
"The Introduction" (2291-93)
Lady
Mary Wortley Montagu.
"Epistle from Mrs. Yonge to Her Husband"
(2582-83)
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| May
8
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Jonathan Swift.
"A Modest Proposal" (2473-79)
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| May
10
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Alexander Pope.
An Essay on Criticism (2509-25)
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| May
15
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Samuel Johnson.
From The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (2679-2712)
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