| Readings | Lessons/Assignments | |
| Romanticism | ||
| Week 1 | ||
| 25 August | Introduction | |
| 27 August | “The Romantic Period”; Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience | [Speaker] |
| Week 2 | ||
| 1 September | Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads | [Rhetorical situation, image] Paraphrase due |
| 3 September | Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads,” “Nutting,” “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” | [metaphor] |
| Week 3 | ||
| 8 September | Shelley’s Frankenstein; discuss explication | |
| 10 September | Shelley’s Frankenstein | |
| Week 4 | ||
| 15 September | Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer,” “Eve of St. Agnes,” and “La Belle Dame sans Merci” | [genre/structure] |
| 17 September | Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode to a Grecian Urn,” and “To Autumn” | |
| Victorianism | ||
| Week 5 | ||
| 22 September | Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children,” Sonnets from the Portugese | |
| 24 September | Browning, “My Last Duchess,” “Love among the Ruins” | [image patterns]
Explication due |
| Week 6 | ||
| 29 September | Tennyson, “The Lady of Shalott” and Idylls of the King | |
| 1 October | Tennyson, “The Lotus Eaters,” “Ulysses,” “Crossing the Bar” | [allegory] |
| Week 7 | ||
| 6 October | Arnold, “Dover Beach” and The Study of Poetry | [symbol] |
| 8 October | Conan Doyle, “The Speckled Band” | |
| Week 8 | ||
| 13 October | Review | |
| 15 October | Midterm Exam | |
| Week 9 | ||
| 20 October | FALL BREAK | |
| Modernism | ||
| 22 October | Heart of Darkness, book I | |
| Week 10 | ||
| 27 October | Heart of Darkness, books II and III | |
| 29 October | Yeats, “Down by the Salley Gardens,” “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” “Who Goes with Fergus,” “Easter 1916” | Final paper proposal due |
| Week 11 | ||
| 3 November | Yeats, “Second Coming” and “Prayer for my Daughter” | |
| 5 November | Woolf, “Mrs. Dalloway” | |
| Week 12 | ||
| 10 November | Woolf, “Mrs. Dalloway” | |
| 12 November | T. S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”; Thomas, “The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” and “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night” | |
| Post Colonialism | ||
| Week 13 | ||
| 17 November | Walcott, “A Far Cry from Africa,” “The Schooner Flight” | |
| 19 November | Heaney, “Digging,” “The Forge,” “Graubelle Man,” “Punishment” | |
| Week 14 | ||
| 24 November | Boland, “Fond Memories,” “The Dolls Museum in Dublin,” “The Lost Land” | Final paper due |
| 26 November | THANKSGIVING | |
| Week 15 | ||
| 1 December | Smith, “The Waiter’s Wife” | |
| 3 December | Review for Final Exam | |