English 201

NOTE: Some items have links to other internet sites that may be of help to you as you work with this material. Where page numbers are indicated in parentheses, these refer to The Longman Anthology. I am always interested in learning of other academic sites with good information relevant to the authors and works we will study in this course. (Of course, I would also like to be made aware of any broken links in the pages below.)

Week One: (Sept. 26)
Tuesday	Introduction: Taliesin (139-43); "The Wanderer" (143-6); Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	"The Middle Ages" (2-26); Bede, "An Ecclesiastical History of the English People" (126-31); Reading and Study Questions
Week Two: (Oct. 1 & 3)
Tuesday	"Judith" (114-19); "The Dream of the Rood" (120-24, plus alternate translation, see xerox handout. FYI: here's a modern English verse translation); Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	Medieval lyrics (520-35); Julian of Norwich, A Book of Showings, (chapters 1-5); Reading and Study Questions
Week Three: (Oct. 8 & 10) Medieval Drama Links Chaucer resources and helps: click here.
Tuesday	Medieval Cycle Plays: Noah, Wakefield; The Sacrifice of Isaac, Brome (Medieval literature packet). Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, "General Prologue" (272-6; 293-313). Reading and Study Questions
Week Four: (Oct. 15 & 17) Chaucer resources and helps: click here.
Tuesday	Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" (Medieval literature packet); Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath’s Tale" (348-56); Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	Arthurian Literature: Marie de France (170-85); Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur (344-63, plus Malory handout); Courtly Love handout; Reading and Study Questions
Week Five: (Oct. 22 & 24) Midterm Study Aids Sonnet Information; Petrarch handout
Tuesday	Midterm Exam
Thursday	"The Early Modern Period" (569-88); Philip Sidney, from Astrophil and Stella #1, 31, 39, 45, 60, 71, 108 (pp. 911-12; 987-93); Spenser, Amoretti #1, 13, 22, 62, 65, 75 (pp. 898-901); William Shakespeare, Sonnets #1, 18, 55, 60, 130, 138, (pp. 1166-78). Reading and Study Questions
Week Six: (Oct. 29 & 31)
Tuesday	Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (1571-7); Christopher Marlowe/Sir Walter Raleigh: The Passionate Shepherd and the Nymph (1046, 1098-9); John Donne, "Song," "The Indifferent," "The Bait," "The Apparition" (1549-53, 1558-59). Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	Amelia Lanyer, Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum (1036, 1041-5); Anne Bradstreet (handout). Reading and Study Questions
Week Seven: (Nov. 5 & 7)
Tuesday	John Donne, "The Good Morrow," "The Sun Rising," "Break of Day," "The Flea," "A Valediction of Weeping," "A Valediciton: Forbidding Mourning," Holy Sonnets #1, 6; "For whom the bell tolls" (1564-9). Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	Othello on stage and film
Week Eight: (Nov. 12 & 14) Shakespeare links and helps
Tuesday	Shakespeare, Othello, Act One, (1179-97). Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	Shakespeare, Othello, Acts Two and Three (1197-1232). Reading and Study Questions
Week Nine: (Nov. 19 & 21)
Tuesday	Shakespeare, Othello, Acts Four and Five (1232-60). Reading and Study Questions Paper Due at Start of Class
Thursday	"The Civil War, or the Wars of Three Kingdoms" (1698-1701); John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book One, Argument and lines 1-662 (1755-72), plus Arguments/Summaries for Books 1-12.
Week Ten: (Nov. 26 & 28) Milton and Paradise Lost Resources
Tuesday	Milton, Paradise Lost, Book Nine (1755-57, 1854-78). Reading and Study Questions
Thursday	Jonathan Swift, "A Description of the Morning," "A Description of a City Shower," (2362-67); "A Modest Proposal" (2451-58); Alexander Pope, from An Essay on Man (2459-60; 2526-2535). Reading and Study Questions