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Spring 2000 |
Required text:
Assignments:
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Feb. 8 |
Introduction |
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Feb. 10 |
Shakespeare's sonnets, pp. 1026-43 |
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Feb. 15 |
The sonnet tradition: "The long love," p. 527; "My galley," p. 528; "Love that doth reign," p. 571; "Loving in truth," p. 917; When Nature made," 918; "With how sad steps," p. 922; "Leave me, O Love," 933; "One day I wrote," p. 867; "Care-charmer Sleep," p. 964; "Since there's no help," p. 967; "In this strange labyrinth," p. 1431 |
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Feb. 17 |
Sonnet reading due |
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Feb. 22 |
Old English poetry, pp. 1-6, 23-28, 99-109 |
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Feb. 24 |
Beowulf, pp. 29-99 |
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Feb. 29 |
Paper due |
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Mar. 2 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, pp. 156-210 |
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Mar. 7 |
The Middle Ages and Chaucer, pp. 9-20, 210-35 |
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Mar. 9 |
"The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, " pp. 253-81 |
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Mar. 14 |
"The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale," pp. 281-96 |
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Mar. 16 |
Paper due |
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Mar. 21 |
The Faerie Queene, pp. 614-16, 622-41 |
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Mar. 23 |
The Faerie Queene, pp. 642-87 |
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Apr. 4 |
The Faerie Queene, pp. 687-734 |
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Apr. 6 |
The Faerie Queene, pp. 734-72 |
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Apr. 11 |
The Early Seventeenth Century and Donne, pp. 1209-38, 1256-57, 2736-38 |
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Apr. 13 |
Donne's love poetry, pp. 1238-54 |
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Apr. 18 |
Donne's religious poetry, pp. 1257-60, 1268-76 |
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Apr. 20, 25, 27 |
Seventeenth-century poetry as assigned by groups |
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Apr. 27 |
Paper due |
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May 2 |
John Dryden and Aphra Behn, pp. 2045-62, 2071-72, 2099-2106, 2165-70 |
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May 4 |
Alexander Pope and love, pp. 2505-8, 2525-54 |
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May 9 |
Pope and social poetry, pp. 2554-73 |
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May 11 |
Pope and women, pp. 2584-2605 |
Course requirements:
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Poets are the unacknowledged |
Poetry makes nothing happen. |
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legislators of the World. |
W. H. Auden |
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Note that you need to sign up for three projects, one in each of the three divisions. The group should get together well in advance of the day assigned to plan out what you intend to do and how to divide up the work. Do at least one trial run of your presentation since you are likely to have more material than you can fit in--35 minutes is less time than you think, especially if you plan for class discussion. Do consult with me well ahead of the presentation. Be imaginative, and choose your material to shed light on the texts we are looking at; don't drone on about biography and history that have only a distant link to the actual poem or poems, and be sure to make the links explicit.
FEB. 17 Ovidian love
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FEB. 29 Fate (wyrd)
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MAR. 2 Courtesy
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MAR. 14 The Pardoner's sexuality
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MAR. 23 Iconography and poetry
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Choose one short poem or a short passage from a longer text in the assignment for your day, and present it to the class so as to bring it to life for them. You may use background material, poetic analysis, performance, whatever illuminates and enriches the poem. Be sure I know well in advance what your selection is.
APR. 6 The Faerie Queene
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APR. 13 Donne's love poetry
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MAY 2 Dryden and Behn
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MAY 9 Pope's social poetry
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MAY 11 Pope and the woman question
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Find a group of seventeenth-century poems that illustrate the following motif. (I will be glad to help you with that.) Notify the class two periods in advance what poems they are to read, and then present the motif in class, with one of the poems as your central text.
APR. 20 My poem is better than your poem.
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APR. 25 Poems of mourning
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APR. 25 Carpe diem poems
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APR. 27 Dialogues
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APR. 27 Poems about flowers
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