NAVIGATION: Index of Dr. Weller's Class Materials Index of English 538 Materials

Syllabus for English 538, Fall 2012

Text:

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Ed., Vol. B.

Calendar:

Thursday, September 27:
Introduction

Tuesday, October 2:
Sir Thomas More: Utopia.
Thursday, October 4:
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus.

Tuesday, October 9:
Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene, selections in the Norton Anthology of English Literature.
Thursday, October 11:
Edmund Spenser: Shepheardes Calender, October; Amoretti, selections in the Norton Anthology of English Literature; Epithalamion.

Tuesday, October 16:
Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella, 1-20, 70; Defense of Poesie.
Thursday, October 18:
William Shakespeare: Sonnets in the Norton Anthology of English Literature.

Tuesday, October 23:
William Shakespeare: As You Like It.
Thursday, October 25:
William Shakespeare: Hamlet.

Tuesday, October 30:
Ben Jonson, Volpone; Song, To Celia; To Penshurst; To the Memory of My Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare.
Thursday, November 1:
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi

Tuesday, November 6:
Mid-term Essay Test.
Thursday, November 8:
John Donne: The Flea, Song ("Go and catch a falling star"), The Sun Rising. The Indifferent, The Canonization, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.

Tuesday, November 13:
John Donne: The Ecstasy; The Funeral; The Relic; Elegy 19 ("To His Mistress Going to Bed"); Holy Sonnets 10 & 14; Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward; Meditation 17.

Thursday, November 15:
George Herbert: The Altar, Easter Wings, Church Monuments, The Collar, The Pulley, The Flower, Love (3).

Tuesday, November 20:
Robert Herrick: The Argument of His Book; The Vine; Delight in Disorder; His Farewell to Sack; Corinna's Going A-Maying; To the Virgins; to Make Much of Time; The Hock-Cart; or Harvest Home; Upon Jack and Jill. Epigram; His Prayer to Ben Jonson; Upon Julia's Clothes, To His Conscience; Another Grace for a Child.

Tuesday, November 27:
Andrew Marvell: Bermudas; A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body; To His Coy Mistress; The Definition of Love; The Garden.
Thursday, November 29:
Thomas Hobbes; from Leviathan

Tuesday, December 4:
John Milton: L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Lycidas; When I Consider How My Light is Spent; Methought I Saw My Late Espousèd Saint.
Thursday, December 6:
John Milton: Paradise Lost

Wednesday, December 12, Noon - 2:00 p.m.:
Final Essay Test