READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760
CSU FULLERTON, SUMMER 2003
*2023 Note. Most links and procedural information have been removed from this archival copy, leaving mainly the required editions and the reading schedule.
COURSE INFORMATION. English 211, Code 10956, Summer Session B. Humanities (HH) 511, M/Tu/W/Th 10:30 a.m. – 12:40 p.m. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: Tu/W 12:45 – 1:45 p.m. in University Hall (UH) 423. Email: e211_at_ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major periods and movements, major authors, and major forms through 1760. Units (3). Satisfies General Education requirements GE Category III.B.2 with grade of C or better.”
REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE
Abrams, M. H. et al. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vols. 1ABC. 7th. edition. ISBN: 1A = 0393975657, 1B = 0393975665, 1C = 0393975673.
QUESTIONS FOR JOURNALS AND PRESENTATIONS
*2023 Note. Visitors may download the following questions in PDF format: BRITISH LITERATURE TO C18 | SHAKESPEARE. Editions may differ from the ones used for this course.
Chaucer | Wakefield | More | Hoby | Wyatt | Surrey | Sidney | Spenser | Marlowe | Shakespeare | Donne | Bacon | Herbert | Herrick & Crashaw | Vaughan | Milton | Pope
SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED
WEEK 1
07/14. Course Introduction.
07/15. Chaucer. “General Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales, lines 1-164, 625-860.
07/16. Chaucer. “The Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale” from The Canterbury Tales.
07/17. Wakefield Master. The Second Shepherds’ Play.
WEEK 2
07/21. Sir Thomas More. Utopia. Sir Thomas Hoby. The Courtier.
07/22. Sir Thomas Wyatt and William Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. Wyatt: “The Long Love,” “My Galley,” “Madam, Withouten Many Words,” “Whoso List to Hunt,” “My Lute, Awake!” “They Flee from Me,” “Divers Doth Use,” “Blame Not My Lute,” “Forget Not Yet,” “V. Innocentia,” “Mine Own John Poins.” Howard:: “Love, That Doth Reign,” “The Soote Season,” “O Happy Dames,” “My Friend…,” “Epitaph on Sir Thomas Wyatt,” “Prisoned in Windsor.”
07/23. Sir Philip Sidney. “Defence of Poesy.”
07/24. Edmund Spenser. “Epithalamion.” Christopher Marlowe. “Hero and Leander,” “The Passionate Shepherd.”
WEEK 3
07/28. Shakespeare. King Lear. (Film in class.)
07/29. Shakespeare. King Lear, Acts 1-2.
07/30. Shakespeare (cont.). King Lear, Acts 3-5.
07/31. John Donne. “The Flea,” “The Good Morrow,” “Song — Go and Catch a Falling Star,” “The Canonizaton,” “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day,” “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” “Holy Sonnets” (all), “Good Friday, 1613: Riding Westward,” from Devotions, and selection from “Death’s Duel.”
WEEK 4
08/04. Sir Francis Bacon. From Essays, from The Advancement of Learning, from Novum Organum, from The New Atlantis.
08/05. George Herbert, Francis Vaughan, William Crashaw, Robert Herrick. Herbert: “The Altar,” “Redemption,” “Easter,” “Easter Wings,” “Affliction (I),” “Prayer (1),” “Jordan (1),” “Denial,” “Jordan (2),” “Time,” “The Bunch of Grapes,” “The Pilgrimage,” “Discipline,” “Death.” Vaughan: “The World.” Crashaw: “On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord,” “The Flaming Heart.” Herrick: “Corinna’s Going A-Maying,” “The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home,” “Upon the Nipples of Julia’s Breast.”
08/06. John Milton. Paradise Lost, Books 1-2.
08/07. John Milton. Paradise Lost, Books 3-4.
WEEK 5
08/11. Milton. Paradise Lost, Books 5-8.
08/12. Milton. Paradise Lost, Books 9-10.
08/13. Milton. Paradise Lost, Books 11-12. C18 introduction.
FINALS WEEK
08/14. Final exam in class, beginning at regular class time. Books and notes allowed.