English Literature, Year II
Spring 2015 Course Outline, Classes
Requirements: class attendance and class participation (1 absence per semester allowed); the final test which covers the material from the lecture and the classes. Students are required to prepare the assigned reading for the class and have a copy of the assigned text with them; their class participation will contribute to their overall grade.
Please note that the dates when particular texts are discussed may be changed.
23 Feb. Jonathan Swift, excerpts from Book 4 of Gulliver’s Travels
2 March Alexander Pope, from An Essay on Criticism; an excerpt from The Rape of the Lock, Canto II
9 March Thomas Gray, ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’
16 March William Blake, [‘Introduction’ to The Songs of Innocence , ‘The Sick Rose’ (lecture)]; ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Tyger’, ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ (both from Songs of Innocence and Experience), ‘And Did Those Feet”
23 March William Wordsworth, excerpts from Preface to Lyrical Ballads [lecture], ‘Daffodils’, ‘Tintern Abbey’ [lecture: ‘We Are Seven’ ]
30 March S. T. Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’
13 April Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
20 April Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
27 April P. B. Shelley, ‘Ode to the West Wind’, [lecture: ‘A Song: Men of England’]
4 May Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
11 May Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
18 May John Keats, 'On First Looking into Chapman's Homer', 'Ode on a Grecian Urn', [‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ (Lecture)]
25 May Test
1 June G. G. Byron, excerpts from Canto I of Don Juan
8 June catch-up class
The textbook: Bela, Teresa and Zygmunt Mazur, College Anthology of English Literature, Kraków, 2008.
Recommended Reading:
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, various editions..
Carter, Ronald and John McRae, The Penguin Guide to Literature in English, Penguin, 1996.
Alexander, Michael. A History of English Literature, 2nd. ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Drabble, Margaret, ed. The Oxford Companion to English Literature, various editions.
Krajewska, Wanda, ed. English Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. Warszawa: PWN, 1978.
Recommended websites:
Norton Topics Online http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/romantic/welcome.htm
Representative Poetry Online at the University of Toronto
Frankenstein. The Electronic Edition at the University of Pennsylvania http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/