Syllabus for English 340, Spring 2018

Friday, April 13: The Canterbury Tales

Reading Assignments: The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.
Discussion questions on the Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale.

Monday, April 16: The Canterbury Tales

Reading Assignments: The Merchant's Prologue, Tale, and Epilogue and The Franklin's Tale.
Discussion Questions on the Merchant's Tale and The Franklin's Tale.

General Discussion Question: What are Chaucer's conclusions on the subject of marriage? (As you answer these questions, please try to think of supporting examples from more than one story.)

1. What mistakes do men make in choosing a wife?
2. What is the source of conflict between husband and wife?
3. What psychological damage is done by an unhappy marriage?
4. What is the key to a happy marriage?
5. What benefits does a happy marriage confer?

Wednesday, April 18: Prep for Student Presentations.

Friday, April 20: Student Presentations

 1: Chaucer, "The Miller's Tale" -- Kate Blevins, Christian Smith, Stephanie Cosby

 2: "Sir Orefeo" -- Grace Caraway, Kaylie Pixlee, Laura Prawdzik

 3: John Gower, "The Tale of Philomene and Tereus" -- Alex Thomas

 4:

The Medieval Practice Quiz will be ready by 4:00 p.m. It has exactly the same format as the regular quiz which you will take. The only difference is that the regular quiz will be longer.

Monday, April 23: Student Presentations

 5: Thomas Hoccleve, My Compleinte -- Kurtis Ebeling, Ian Lovering, & Anthony Picard

 6: Thomas of England, Le Roman de Tristan -- Kimmy Korson & Maya Elston

 7: York Play of the Crucifixion, -- Jonah Wilkinson & Bailey Stephens

 8: Robert Henryson, "The Cock and the Fox"-- Tim Lacey

Wednesday, April 25: Student Presentations

 9: Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe -- Lindsy Callahan, Laine Gaither, & Haley Cardenas

10: Sir Thomas Malory, Morte Darthur -- Macie Gardner, Sarah Smith, & Mel Markel

11: Marie De France, "Lanval" -- Kim Miyamoto, Adam Howes, & Kayla Smith

12: "Cúchulainn's Boyhood Deeds" -- Tabby Liljenberg, Jocelyn Walters, & Alex Watson

Friday, April 27: First Quiz

No class meeting: The Middle Ages Quiz is open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Don't Miss It!

Sir Thomas Wyatt The Elder Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey Supposed Portrait of Edmund Spenser Sir Philip Sidney Possible Portrait of Thomas Campion Michael Drayton Perhaps Christopher Marlowe John Donne Ben Jonson Robert Herrick Richard Lovelace Andrew Marvell

Monday, April 30 Begin Unit on The Sixteenth Century

--Reading Assignment: "The Sixteenth Century 1485 - 1603"

--Participation Opportunity: Perform a poem on the syllabus for Monday, May 7; Wednesday, May 9; or Friday, May 11. This will fulfill your presentations requirement for this unit. See my page About Performing a Poem. Sign up in the Canvas discussion section.

--Notes for a Lecture on the Transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

Wednesday, May 2: Lyric Poetry

--Notes for a Lecture on Petrarchan Poetry in the English Renaissance.

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542):

• Translation of Petrarch: "The long love that in my thought doth harbor" -- p. 648
• Wyatt on His Own: "The Lover Forsaketh his Unkind Love"

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516/1517 - 19 January 1547):

• Some Originality and then conventiality: "Alas! so all things now do hold their peace" — p. 664

Friday, May 4: Prep for Performances

Monday, May 7: Lyric Poetry continued again

George Gascoigne (c. 1535 - 7 October 1577)

• "And if I did, what then?" — p. 1007 -- Laine Gaither

Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586), Astrophil and Stella:

• 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show") — p. 1084
• 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know") — p. 1095

Christopher Marlowe (1564 - 1593):

• "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" — p. 1126 -- Haley Cardenas.

Sir Walter Ralegh (1554-1618):

• "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" — p. 1024 -- Jocelyn Walters

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619), Delia:

• 46 ("Let others sing of knights and paladins") -- Kimmie Korson

Michael Drayton (1563-1631), Idea:

• 61 ("Since there's no help, come, let us kiss and part") — p. 1016 -- Stephanie Cosby

Thomas Campion (1567-1620):

• "I care not for these ladies" — p. 1017 -- Alex Watson
  (For the typical singing voice, see the Wikipedia page on Campion)
• "Think'st Thou to Seduce Me Then" -- Maya Elston
• "My sweetest Lesbia" — p. 1017 -- Tabby Lijenberg

Wednesday, May 9:

Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder (1503-1542):

• "They flee from me" -- p. 653 -- Alex Thomas
• "Blame not my lute" -- pp. 656-657 -- Kaylie Pixlee

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599), Amoretti:

• Sonnet 34 ("Lyke as a ship that through the Ocean wyde") — p. 986 -- Bailey Stephens
• Sonnet 37 ("What guyle is this, that those her golden tresses") — p. 986 -- Jonah Wilkinson
• Sonnet 68 ("Most glorious Lord of lyfe, that on this day") — p. 988 -- Kurtis Ebeling
• Sonnet 79 ("Men call you fayre, and you do credit it") — p. 989 -- Ian Lovering

Sir Walter Ralegh [Raleigh, Rawley](1554-1618):

• [Sir Walter Ralegh to His Son] — p. 1025 -- Sarah Smith
• "Nature, that washed her hands in milk"— p. 1029 -- Laura Prawdzik
• Shakespeare's Sonnet #47 ["Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took"] -- Tim Lacey

Friday, May 11: Shakespeare's Sonnets

#3 ["Look in thy glass and tell the face thou viewest"] -- Kayla Smith

#14 ["Not from the stars do I my judgment pluck"] -- Kate Blevins

#18 ["Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"] -- Mel Merkel

#27 ["Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed"] -- Macie Gardner

#69 ["Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view"] -- Lindsy Callahan

#75 ["So are you to my thoughts as food to life"] -- Adam Howes

#106 ["When in the chronicle of wasted time"] -- Christian Smith

#130 ["My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"] -- Grace Caraway

#138 ["When my love swears that she is made of truth"] -- Kimberlie Miyamoto

#144 ["Two loves I have of comfort and despair"] -- Anthony Picard

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#30 ["When to the sessions of sweet silent thought"]

Monday, May 14: Complete the Sixteenth Century Quiz today.

Wednesday, May 16: Beginning of Unit on the Early Seventeenth Century

Overview of the Early Seventeenth Century

Early Seventeenth Century Presentation Topics

Link to the sign-up "Discussion" on Canvas.

Friday, May 18: Donne

Reading Assignments:

• Extract from Helen Gardner's The Metaphysical Poets
• "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" — p. 1385
• "The Indifferent" — p. 1377

Study Questions on "The Indifferent"

Study Questions on "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"

Monday, May 21: Not Done with Donne

Reminder: Link to the presentation sign-up "Discussion" on Canvas.

Reading Assignments:

• Holy Sonnet # 18 ("Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear") — p. 1414
• "Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward" — p. 1415

Study Questions on Holy Sonnet #18 ("Show me, dear Christ, thy spouse so bright and clear")

Study Questions on "Good Friday, 1613, Riding Westward"

Discussion Question: How would you describe Donne's relationship with Christian faith?

Wednesday, May 23: Ben Jonson

Reading Assignments:

• "To Penshurst" — p. 1546 — Notes and Study Questions on "To Penshurst"
• "Still to be Neat": text and study questions

Friday, May 25: Herrick and Lovelace

Reading Assignments:

• Herrick, "The Argument of His Book"—p. 1757
• Notes and Study Questions on "The Argument of His Book"
• Herrick, "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" — p. 1762.
• Study Questions for "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
• Herrick, "To His Conscience" and "Another Grace for a Child"— p. 1768
• Discussion Question for "To His Conscience" and "Another Grace for a Child": Is Herrick making fun of religion?
• Lovelace, "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars"—p. 1779
• Lovelace, "To Althea, from Prison"—p. 1781
• Study Questions on "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" and "To Althea, from Prison."

Discussion Project for the day: In the poems by Jonson, Herrick, and Lovelace that we have read, what are the common qualities?

Monday, May 28: Memorial Day (EWU closed.)

Wednesday, May 30: Andrew Marvell

Reading Assignments:

• "To His Coy Mistress" — p. 1796
• Study Questions on "To His Coy Mistress"

Friday, June 1: Prep for student presentations.

Monday, June 4: Student Presentations

 1: John Donne, "A Lecture upon the Shadow" (p. 1391) -- Laine Gaither, Lindsy Callahan, Haley Cardenas, and Tim Lacey.

 2: John Donne, "The Ecstasy" (p. 1386) -- Laura Prawdzik, Stephanie Cosby, & Grace Caraway.

 3: Ben Jonson, "To Heaven" (p. 1549) -- Tabby Liljenberg.

 4:

Wednesday, June 6: Student Presentations

 5: Thomas Carew, "A Rapture" (p. 1775) -- Mel Markel, Sarah Smith, and Macie Gardner

 6: John Donne, "Air and Angels" (p. 1380) -- Kimmy Korson, Jonhah Wilkinson, and Maya Elston.

 7: Ben Jonson, "My Picture Left in Scotland" (p. 1551) -- Anthony Picard, Kurtis Ebeling, and Ian Lovering.

 8: John Donne, "The Good-Morrow" (p. 1373) -- Kayla Smith, Kimberlie Miyamoto, and Adam Howes

Friday, June 8 (Last Day of Instruction): Student Presentations

 9: John Donne, Elegy 19 ["To His Mistress Going to Bed"] (p. 1393) -- Kate Blevins and Alex Watson

10: John Donne, "The Apparition" (p. 1385) -- Bailey Stephens, Kaylie Pixlee, and Jocelyn Walters.

11: Ben Jonson, "On My First Son," (p. 1542) -- Alex Thomas & Christian Smith.

12:

Courtesy

• I will be respectful of your time. The class will stop no later that 9:23
• If you must leave the class before 9:23, please do not return.
• Because it's often helpful to be able to look things up, I encourage you to bring your laptops and other devices that you can use to connect to the internet. However, please, no recreational use.

Academic Integrity

• All students must follow the Eastern Washington University academic standards. Suspected violations will be handled in accordance with those standards.