Schedule of Readings and Assignments
ROMANTICISM
Wk 1
1/24 Seamus Perry, “Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept”
Introduction to the Romantic Period in the Longman Anthology
Language, Diction, and Memory
1/26 Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”and Shelley’s “Defense of Poetry”
1/28 Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey”
Wk 2
1/31 Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey”
Romantic Hellenism, Politics and Poetry, Romantic Orientalism
2/2 Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer,” “On First Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
Companion Readings: John Gibson Lockhart, from “On the Cockney School of Poetry”
2/4 Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Helen Vendler, from The Odes of John Keats 
Wk 3
2/7 Continue discussion of “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
Susan Wolfson, from The Cambridge Companion to John Keats
2/9 Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”
2/11 Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”
Wk 4
Romantic Prose Fiction
2/14 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
2/16
2/18 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein: Critical Approaches
VICTORIANISM
Wk 5
Victorian Poetry
2/21 Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses,” Paper 1 due
2/23 “The Lady of Shallot”
2/25
Wk 6
2/28 Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market”
3/2
3/4
Wk 7
Victorian fiction
3/7 Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
3/9
3/11
Wk 8
3/14 Critical essays on Jane Eyre
3/16 MIDTERM EXAM
3/18
** SPRING BREAK **
MODERNISM
Wk 9
Experiments in modern fiction
4/4 Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
4/6
4/8
Wk 10
4/11 From Perspectives: “Whose Language?”,
Ngugi wa Thiongo, Derek Walcott
4/13 Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
4/15
Wk 11
Modern Poetry
4/18 W. B. Yeats, “Sailing to Byzantium” “The Second Coming”
4/20 “No Second Troy”
4/22 “The Second Coming” Paper 2 due
Wk 12
4/25 T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
4/27
4/29 “The Waste-Land”
Wk 13
Modern Drama
5/2 Samuel Beckett, “Krapp’s Last Tape”/”Endgame”
5/4
5/6
Wk 14
5/9 Salman Rushdie, “. “Good Advice is Rarer than Rubies”
5/11 Salman Rushdie, “ The Auction of the Ruby Slippers” in East, West
5/13 Conclusion
5/16 FINAL EXAM