M. Arn
Bakeless 113
Spring 1998
Phone: x4428 (office); 389-8175 (home)
e-mail: marn@planetx

Lyrics and short excerpts from prose texts, which will be dealt with incidentally, will be provided on handouts as the course progresses. They will include work by Skelton, Wyatt, Surrey, Queen Elizabeth, Burton, Hall, Herrick, Hyde, Marvell, and others.

Week 1 (beginning 12 January):

• Tuesday: The Story of English and course introduction
• Thursday: Read carefully and be prepared to answer questions on: the backgrounds (handout) and the first half of Beowulf.

Note: the introductions (in your texts and in the handouts) are always part of the reading assignment.

Week 2 (beginning 19 January):

• The Old English Period: Beowulf

Week 3 (beginning 26 January):

• The Middle English Period: Sir Gawain

Week 4 (beginning 2 February):

• Tuesday: Finish Sir Gawain, begin Chaucer
  Read General Prologue, ll. 1-42, 79-100, 208-310, 333-362, 717-858
  
• Thursday: The Franklin's Prologue

Week 5 (beginning 9 February):

• Tuesday: The Franklin's Tale
• Thursday: The Sixteenth Century: begin Spenser's Fairie Queene, Book I

Week 6 (beginning 16 February):

• Tuesday: Test on medieval period
• Thursday: Spenser

Week 7 (beginning 23 February):

• Tuesday: Spenser
• Thursday: Early modern lyric (handout), Shakespeare's sonnets
  First paper due

Week 8 (beginning 2 March):

• Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

SPRING BREAK

Week 9 (beginning 16 March):

• Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing

Week 10 (beginning 23 March):

• The Early Seventeenth Century: Jonson, Volpone

Week 11 (beginning 30 March):

• Seventeenth-century lyrics (handout)

Week 12 (beginning 6 April):

• Milton, Paradise Lost

Week 13 (beginning 13 April):

• Milton
  Final paper due

Week 14 (beginning 20 April):

• Tuesday: Swift, A Modest Proposal
• Thursday: Pope, Rape of the Lock

Week 15 (beginning May):

• Pope, Samuel Johnson

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