Calendar, Spring 2002
| Week | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| Topic | Readings | Notes | |
| Day 1 | Cesar Chavez Holiday--NO CLASS | ||
| Day 2 | Course format and requirements.
Introduction to the Renaissance: Politics and God. |
In class: selections from Everyman(handout).
Background: Introduction to the Sixteenth Century (469-98); from "The Persistence of English," selections on the Emergence of the English Language and on Dictionaries and Rules (xxxviii-xlii); from the Appendices, the British monarchs of the House of Tudor (A40); "Religions in England" (A42-A43). Be sure to complete these background readings before next class meeting. TO AVOID OVERLOAD IN PREPARING FOR MONDAY'S CLASS, READ THESE SELECTIONS BY FRIDAY, 4/5. |
Unless otherwise noted, all
page numbers on Reading assignments are from the Norton Anthology of
English Literature, 7th. ed., vol. 1b.
Be sure to read through ENGL 331 Home Page and Calendar before next class. |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | Politics of the Reformation and Renaissance Humanism. | Online reading: Humanist
Grammar School.
Backgrounds II: specific contexts for primary readings as assigned on Study Guide. Primary Readings: selections by Sir Thomas More, John Foxe, The Book of Homilies, Roger Ascham, Sir Thomas Hoby and Sir Walter Ralegh as assigned on Study Guide. |
Backgrounds I (should have been read by Friday 4/5): Introduction to the Sixteenth Century (469-98); from "The Persistence of English," selections on the Emergence of the English Language and on Dictionaries and Rules (xxxviii-xlii); from the Appendices, the British monarchs from the House of Tudor (A40) and "Religions in England" (A42-A43). |
| Day 2 | Marlowe's Dr. Faustus | Background: The Elizabethan Theater (490-5); Christopher
Marlowe (970-1); Dr. Faustus (990-1); diagram of A London
Playhouse of Shakespeare's Time, appendix A-62.
Primary Reading: Dr. Faustus (991-1023). |
Catch up on all background readings assigned for last class. |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | Vernacular Poetry: Theory and Practice (Sidney's Defense of Poesy; and Sonnets I) | Background I: specific contexts for Sidney's Defense
of Poesy as assigned on Study Guide.
Backgrounds II: specific contexts for sonnets as assigned on Study Guide. Online reading: An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. Primary Readings: Sidney's Defense of Poesy (934-43, 946-8, 953-4); sonnets as assigned on Study Guide. |
Review selection from Hoby's translation of Castiglione's The Courtier |
| Day 2 | Sonnets II | Background: review specific contexts for sonnets
as
assigned on Study Guide.
Primary Readings: sonnets by Spenser, Shakespeare and Wroth as assigned on Study Guide. |
Written Assignment: Paraphrase
of Shakespeare's Sonnet 29.
Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | Other Elizabethan Lyrics (especially pastoral). | Background: 485-90, esp. on 489-90 on Pastoral
mode; first four paragraphs (only) of online reading Pastoral
Poetry; 479-85 on Queen Elizabeth and on women's education, literary
activity and participation in the public sphere; headnote (only) to Isabella
Whitney (606) on the issue of women writing.
Headnotes to assigned poets: Queen Elizabeth (593-4), Spenser (614-6), Ralegh (878-9), Marlowe (970-1), Mary Herbert (957-8), Campion (1196). Primary Readings: Specific poems are assigned throughout the study guide; note that Mary Herbert's "A Dialogue Between Two Shepherds" is a handout. |
Review Sidney's comments on pastoral poetry (943).
Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. Note that pastoral love poetry akin to Marlowe's, Ralegh's and Campion's will be written well into the 17th century: see e.g. Donne's "The Bait"; Herrick's "To the Virgins"; Suckling's "Song" and "Out Upon It"; and Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" (which we will read later this term). Because the readings from The Faerie Queene are long, you are advised to read ahead over the week-end! |
| Day 2 | Epic I: Spenser's Faerie Queene | Background: 473-4, 489-90, 614-6, 622-52.
Book I of The Faerie Queene: Opening letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, four-stanza prologue, and cantos 1 and 2 (624-52). |
Review Sidney's comments on "heroical" poetry (943-4). |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | Epic I: Spenser's Faerie Queene, continued | Book I of The Faerie Queene: cantos 4 and 5; cantos 7 and 8 and 9 (662-87 and 698-734). | |
| Day 2 | Epic I: Spenser's Faerie Queene, conclusion | Book I of The Faerie Queene: cantos 10 and 11 and 12 (734-72). | PAPER 1 DUE |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | MIDTERM EXAM | ||
| Day 2 | Early Seventeenth-Century Lyrics I: John Donne. | Background: 1209-1232 and headnote to Donne, 1233-5.
Donne: "The Flea" (1236); "Song": "Go and Catch a Falling Star" (1237); "The Sun Rising" (1239); "The Indifferent" (1239); "The Canonization" (1240); "The Bait" (1247); "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" (1248); Elegy 19, "To His Mistress Going to Bed" (1256); "Satire 3" (1257); Holy Sonnets 1, 10, 17 (1268-71); "Meditation 17" (1277-8). |
Review Hints for Reading the Poems and online reading An Approach to Reading and Writing About Poems. |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | Early Seventeenth-Century Lyrics II | Background: 1209-1232 and headnotes to assigned poets:
Lanyer (1281-2); Jonson (1292-4); George Herbert (1595-6); Crashaw (1629-30);
Herrick (1643-4); Suckling (1664-5); Lovelace (1670); Philips (1679); Marvell
(1684-5); Cavendish (1759).
Jonson: "On Giles and Joan," "Song: To Celia," "A Sonnet to the Noble Lady, the Lady Mary Wroth," "My Picture Left in Scotland." Herrick, "Delight in Disorder," "To the Virgins. . . ," "Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast," "Upon Jack and Jill." Suckling, "Song," "Loving and Beloved," "Out upon it!" Lovelace, "To Lucasta. . . ," "To Althea . . . " Herbert, "The Altar," "Redemption," "Easter Wings," "Jordan (1)," "Love (3)." Crashaw, "In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God: A Hymn Sung as by the Shepherds." Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress," "Damon the Mower." Philips, "A Married State," "To Mrs. M. A, at Parting," "On the Death of My First and Dearest Child, Hector Philips." Lanyer, "To the Doubtful Reader," "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty," "To the Virtuous Reader," "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women"; Cavendish, "The Poetess's Hasty Resolution,""From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life." |
Review Hints for Reading
the Poems and online reading An Approach to
Reading and Writing About Poems.
Read ahead in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night if you will not have enough time to get through it between Monday and Wednesday's class. |
| Day 2 | Shakespeare's Twelfth Night | Background: 490-5, 1026-8, 1043-5. Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, 1045-1105. | Read WHOLE PLAY (possibility of reading quiz) |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | .Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, conclusion. | Extra Credit Twelfth Night Performances | |
| Day 2 | Backgrounds to Milton and contexts for Paradise Lost | Background: review 1218-30 and headnotes to Lanyer (1281-2),
Philips (1679) and Cavendish (1759). Read "Voices of the War" (1725-6)
and headnotes to Halkett (1730-1), Cavendish's The Blazing World
(1765), Milton (1771-4), Lycidas (1790-1), and Sonnets (1811).
I. Milton's Youthful Works and Poetic Ambitions. 1) Pastoral elegy: Lycidas (1791-6); 2) Sonnets: "How Soon Hath Time," "To the Lord General Cromwell," "When I Consider" and "Methought I Saw" (1812-5); 3) "Plans and Projects" from The Reason of Church Government Urged Against Prelaty (1796-1801). II. Contexts: Religious, Political and Social Issues. 1) Anglicans/Royalists vs. Puritans. Katherine Philips, "Upon the Double Murder of King Charles" (1680); Lady Anne Halkett, from The Memoirs (1731-4). 2) A Woman's Place? Review Amelia Lanyer, "To the Doubtful Reader," "To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty," "To the Virtuous Reader," "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" (1281-7); Margaret Cavendish, "The Poetess's Hasty Resolution,""From A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life," and READ (newly assigned) "To the Reader" [first paragraph ONLY of the selections from The Blazing World] (1759-60, 1762-6). |
Week 9 (May 27 - May 29) (Memorial
Day Observed: Monday, May 27)
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | MEMORIAL DAY--NO CLASS | START READING ASSIGNMENT FOR NEXT CLASS MEETING!! | |
| Day 2 | Epic II: Milton's Paradise Lost | Bk. 1: all; Bk. 2: all; Bk. 3: lines 1-587; Bk. 4: lines 1-843; Bk. 5: lines 1-135, 377-512, 600-670, 743-848. |
| Topic | Reading | Notes | |
| Day 1 | Epic II: Milton's Paradise Lost, continued | Bk. 7: lines 1-39; Bk. 8: lines 249-653; Bk. 9: all. | [We are skipping Bk. 6, an account of the War in Heaven.] |
| Day 2 | Epic II: Milton's Paradise Lost, conclusion | Bk. 10: lines 414-584, 706-1104; Bk. 11: lines 1-384; Bk. 12: lines 466-649. | PAPER REWRITE DUE to mailbox in English office by 4 PM Friday (6/7). |
Final Exam: Friday 6/14, 4:10-7:00 PM.
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