2030 English Literary Traditions II
Carthage College
Kiesel
Spring, 2012
Literary Traditions II: Revised assignment schedule
March 9, 2012
March
Friday 9
Pride and Prejudice (finish the novel)
Monday 12
“Literary Ballads” and “Reliques of Ancient English Poetry” (2A, 390-392); “Sir Patrick
Spence” (2A, 392-393); Robert Burns, “To a Mouse” (2A, 397-399), “Auld Lang Syne”
(2A, 406), “The Fornicator, A New Song” (2A, 406-407)
Wednesday 14
William Blake, from Songs of Innocence and Experience (2A, 176-183 and 189-203)
Friday 16
MIDTERM EXAM
Spring Recess: March 19 – March 23
Monday 26
William Wordsworth, selections from the 1802 “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (2A, 433-445),
“Nutting” (2A, 450), “Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” (2A, 429-433),
“Lucy Gray” (2A, 448), “The World is Too Much With Us” (2A, 475)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, selections from Biographia Literaria (2A, 684-696); Thomas De
Quincey, “What is it that We Mean by literature?” (2A, 1145); and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (2A, 632-650)
Wednesday 28
NO CLASS: Assessment Day [prepare Friday’s readings!]
Friday 30
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight” (2A, 630-632), “Kubla Khan” (2A, 669-671),
and “Dejection: An Ode” (2A, 674-678); John Keats, The Odes of 1819 (2A, 1003-1014);
Percy Shelley “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (2A, 875-877) and “Ode to the West Wind”
(2A, 889-891); George Gordon, Lord Byron selections from Child Harold’s Pilgrimage (2a,
765-778)
April
Monday 2
Thomas Carlyle, selections from Past and Present (2B, 1074-1088); “Perspectives: The
Industrial Landscape” (2B, 1088-1113)
Wednesday 4
Charles Dickens, selections from “A Walk in a Workhouse” and “Companion Readings”
(2B, 1425-1431); Elizabeth Gaskell, “Our Society at Cranford” (1432-1448)
Easter Recess: Friday 6 - Monday 9
Wednesday 11
Matthew Arnold, from “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time” (2B, 1585-1595)
and “The Study of Poetry” (2B, 1604-1611); Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Mariana” (2B, 11791181) and “Ulysses” (2B, 1189-1191)
Romantic Literature Paper due in class
April (continued)
Friday 13
Thomas Hardy, “The Withered Arm” (2B, 1448-1466); Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, “A Scandal
in Bohemia” (2B, 1466-1482)
Monday 16
Charles Darwin, selections from On the Origin of the Species (2B, 1272-1277) and The
Descent of Man (2B, 1277-1283); “Perspectives: Religion and Science” (2B, 1291-1322)
Wednesday 18
Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach” (2B, 1562), Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur”
(2B, 1702), “Pied Beauty” (2B, 1704), and [Carrion Comfort] (2B, 1708)
Friday 20
Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” (2B, 1325); Elizabeth Barrett Browning, selections
from Aurora Leigh (2B, 1155-1174)
Monday 23
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, selections from In Memoriam A.H.H., (2B, 1204-1235)
Wednesday 25
John Ruskin, selections from Modern Painters (2B, 1492-1495) and The Stones of Venice
(2B, 1495-1505)
Friday 27
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest (2B, 1829-1870)
Victorian Literature Paper due in class
Monday 30
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and selections from De Profundis (2B, 18721879)
May
Wednesday 2
The Good Soldier
Friday 4
The Good Soldier
Monday 7
The Good Soldier
Wednesday 9
T.S. Eliot “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock” and Virginia Woolf, selections from A
Room of One’s Own [both texts on E-Racer]
Friday 11
Conclusions and review
Modernist Literature Paper due in class
Monday 14
Final Exam: 3:30-5:30PM