Renoir Young Girl Reading

Course: English 206--English Literature II
Instructor: Ann Warren
Phone: (310) 233-4250
E-mail: annw708@gmail.com

Course Schedule: Week 1 Course Schedule: Week 2 Course Schedule: Week 3 Course Schedule: Week 4 Course Schedule: Week 5

Course Schedule

Week 1 July 7 INTRODUCTION
THE ROMANTICS
Writing About Literature
Go to Lecture 1

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Reading: Blake,

Note: This is not a mistake: there are two poems called "The Chimney Sweeper," and two poems called "Holy Thursday." The similarity in names is explained in the lecture.

Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Week 1 July 8 THE ROMANTICS
Go to Lecture 2
Go to Discussion Questions 1		 Reading: Byron, Shelley, Keats,
Week 1 July 9 THE ROMANTICS
Go to Lecture 3
No Discussion Questions due this time		 Reading: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 2 July 14 THE ROMANTICS
No new lecture this time
No Discussion Questions due this time		 Reading: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 2 July 15 THE ROMANTICS
No new lecture this time
Go to Discussion Questions 2		 Reading: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 2 July 16 ROMANTIC OR VICTORIAN?
Go to Lecture 4
No Discussion Questions due this time		 Reading: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 3 July 21 ROMANTIC OR VICTORIAN?
No new lecture this time
No Discussion Questions due this time
fountain penPaper 1 due		 Reading: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 3 July 22 ROMANTIC OR VICTORIAN?
No new lecture this time
Go to Discussion Questions 3		 Reading: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 3 July 23 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 5
No Discussion Questions due this time		 Reading: Tennyson, Browning,
Week 4 July 28 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 6
No Discussion Questions due this time		 Reading: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations OR Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Note: Each of these is a novel; choose ONLY ONE and read the whole thing.

Week 4 July 29 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 7
No Discussion Questions due this time
Reading: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations OR Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Note: Each of these is a novel; choose ONLY ONE and read the whole thing.

Week 4 July 30 THE VICTORIANS
No new lecture this time
Go to Discussion Questions 4		 Reading: Charles Dickens, Great Expectations OR Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

Note: Each of these is a novel; choose ONLY ONE and read the whole thing.

Week 5 August 4 THE VICTORIANS
Go to Lecture 8
No Discussion Questions due this time		 Reading: Arnold, Pater, Conclusion to The Renaissance
Hopkins,
Week 5 August 5 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Go to Lecture 10
No Discussion Questions due this time
fountain pen Paper 2 due		 Reading: Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Note: This is a novel; you should read the whole thing.

Week 5 August 6 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
No Discussion Questions due this time		 Reading: Brooke, "The Soldier"
Sassoon, "They"
Owen, "Dulce Et Decorum Est"
Yeats, "The Second Coming"
"The Circus Animals' Desertion"
Eliot, The Wasteland
Note: This is a long poem. You should read at least the first part, "The Burial of the Dead"; the other parts are optional.
Week 6 August 11 THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Go to Discussion Questions 5		 Reading: Woolf, "The Mark on the Wall"
Joyce, "The Dead"
Lawrence, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"
Auden, "Musee des Beaux Arts"
Thomas, "Fern Hill"
Week 6 August 12 CATCH YOUR BREATH DAY No reading assignment for today
Week 6 August 13 FINAL EXAM
fountain penFinal Exam due

No late exams will be accepted, as I must turn in grades immediately.