Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments for ENGL201 Reading and Writing About Texts

Class Calendar and Schedule of Assignments

Class	Date	Reading To Be Discussed	Written Assignment Due
1	7/5	Welcome Everyone! Sophocles Oedipus the King	—
2	7/6	Aristotle Excerpts from Poetics (download here) Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman	Listserv A1
3	7/7	Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray	Listserv B1 Thesis Statement Exercise due Saturday, 7/9 by noon
4	7/11	Special Supplement A brief explanation of humours William Shakespeare Hamlet Acts 1 and 2	Listserv A2
5	7/12	William Shakespeare Hamlet Acts 3 and 4 Derek Jacobi Excerpt from a commentary on the “To be or not to be” speech	Listserv B2
6	7/13	William Shakespeare Hamlet Act 5 John Hollander Excerpt from Rhyme’s Reason (in Course Anthology) William Wordsworth “Nutting”	Listserv A3 Special extra credit assignment: Watch Hamlet directed by Kenneth Branagh. Here are the questions you need to answer to receive credit Revision of Thesis Statement Exercise
7	7/14	William Wordsworth “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798” Some Excerpts from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan: or, A Vision in a Dream” George Gordon, Lord Byron “Darkness,” Dedication to Don Juan, Letter to Douglas Kinnaird, Venice, October 26th, 1819	Listserv B3 Text Quotation and Comment Exercise due Saturday, 7/16 by noon
8	7/18	Horace Smith “On a Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below” Percy Bysshe Shelley “Ozymandias”, “Ode to the West Wind” John Keats “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” A letter to George and Thomas Keats, December 21, 1817	Listserv A4
9	7/19	Robert Browning “Porphyria’s Lover,” “Abt. Vogler” Emily Dickinson 109 [For each ecstatic instant], 181 [A wounded Deer — leaps highest], 320 [There’s a certain — Slant of light], 339 [I like a look of Agony], 340 [I felt a Funeral, in my Brain], 359 [A Bird came down the Walk —], 448 [I died for Beauty — but was scarce], 550 [I measure every Grief I meet], 563 [The Brain, within it’s Groove], 588 [The Heart asks Pleasure — first —], 591 [I heard a fly buzz — when I died], 598 [The Brain — is wider than the sky —], 633 [I saw no way — the Heavens were stitched —] Hart Crane “To Emily Dickinson”	Listserv B4
10	7/20	W. B. (William Butler) Yeats “When You are Old,” “He Wishes his Beloved were Dead,” “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” “The Second Coming,” “Leda and the Swan” T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (read on-line and compare to the version in your book)	Listserv A5 Revision of Text Quotation and Comment Exercise
11	7/21	World War I Poetry Rupert Brooke “The Soldier” Edward Thomas “Adlestrop,” “Rain” Siegfried Sassoon “They,” “Glory of Women,” “Suicide in the Trenches” Isaac Rosenberg “Returning, We Hear the Larks,” “Break of Day in the Trenches,” “Dead M an’s Dump” Wilfred Owen “Disabled,” “Strange Meeting”	Listserv B5 Preparatory work for Explication Essay — Option 1
12	7/25	W. B. (William Butler) Yeats “Sailing to Byzantium” “The Spur,” “The Circus Animals’ Desertion,” “Politics” W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden “In Memory of W.B. Yeats,” “As I Walked Out One Evening,” “The More Loving One”	Listserv A6
13	7/26	Wallace Stevens “A High-Toned Old Christian Woman,” “Anecdote of the Jar,” “The Idea of Order at Key West” Edgar A. Poe “The Black Cat” Raymond Carver “Cathedral” Edith Wharton “Souls Belated”	Listserv B6 Explication Essay — Option 1
14	7/27	F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Chapter 1-4	Listserv A7
15	7/28	F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby Chapter 5-9 John Keats “The Eve of St. Agnes”	Listserv B7 Preparatory work for E xplication Essay — Option 2
16	8/1	Ernest Hemingway “Soldier’s Home” Flannery O’Connor “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Franz Kafka “A Hunger Artist” Gabriel García Marquez “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”	Listserv A8 Explication Essay — Option 2
17	8/2	Italo Calvino Invisible Cities (entire book)	Listserv B8

Close Reading Essay — Option 1 is due Wednesday, 3 August, by 4:00 p.m.

Close Reading Essay — Option 2 is due Thursday, 4 August, by 4:00 p.m.

Close Reading Essay — Option 3 is due Friday, 5 August, by noon

The final examination will take place on Thursday, 4 August, 10:30-1:15

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