This calendar is dynamic: it will be updated during the course of the term if necessary. If you have any question about what is due for a specific day, check here: even if I make a mistake and say something different than this in class, this calendar is always right.
Work "To Read" and "To Write" is to be finished IN TIME FOR CLASS on the day it is assigned. Readings are often designated by author's last name for brevity. All page numbers refer to the 8th Edition of the Norton Anthology. Read the Norton's Introductions when you read the texts!
Aug. 28th
Introductions
To Read: "Introduction"; Selections from Bede; Denise Levertov, "Caedmon" (handout); Beowulf ll. 1-85
To Write:
To Read: "Introduction"; Selections from Bede; Denise Levertov, "Caedmon" (handout); Beowulf ll. 1-85
To Write:
Jan. 23rd
Old English: Violence
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1-1069; "The Wanderer"
To Write: Response #1 due; here are
suggested prompts.
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1-1069; "The Wanderer"
To Write: Response #1 due; here are
suggested prompts.Jan. 30th
Old English: Men and Women
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1070-2199; "The Wife's Lament"; "Judith"
To Write: Quiz #1; Response #2 due; here are suggested prompts.
To Read: Beowulf ll. 1070-2199; "The Wife's Lament"; "Judith"
To Write: Quiz #1; Response #2 due; here are
suggested prompts.Feb. 6th
Old English: Orality
To Read: Beowulf ll. 2200-3182; "The Dream of the Rood." Here is a summary of the feud between the Geats and the Swedes.
To Write: Analysis #1 Due
To Read: Beowulf ll. 2200-3182; "The Dream of the Rood." Here is
a summary of the feud between the Geats and the Swedes. To Write: Analysis #1 Due
Sat., Feb. 10
Beowulf!
There will be a performance of Beowulf tonight by Ben Bagby in Pittsburgh. Info. is here. In Old English!
There will be a performance of Beowulf tonight by Ben Bagby in Pittsburgh. Info. is here. In Old English!
Feb. 13th
Old to Middle English: Textuality, History, and Romance
To Read: King Alfred, selections from "Preface" to the Pastoral Care; selections from "Legendary Histories of Britain" (117-128); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
To Write: Response #3 due; here are suggested prompts.
To Read: King Alfred, selections from "Preface" to the Pastoral Care; selections from "Legendary Histories of Britain" (117-128); Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
To Write: Response #3 due; here are
suggested prompts.Feb. 20th
No Class
Professional Development Day
Professional Development Day
Feb. 27th
Middle English: Pilgrimage
To Read: Chaucer, "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales; "Introduction" to the "Parson's Tale"; selections from The Book of Margery Kempe
To Write: Quiz #2; Analysis #2 Due
To Read: Chaucer, "General Prologue" to the Canterbury Tales; "Introduction" to the "Parson's Tale"; selections from The Book of Margery Kempe
To Write: Quiz #2; Analysis #2 Due
Mar. 6th
Middle English: Romance
To Read: Marie de France, "Lanval"; Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale." As a help, here is an outline of her Prologue.
To Write: Paper #1 Due
To Read: Marie de France, "Lanval"; Chaucer, "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "Tale." As a help, here is
an outline of her Prologue. To Write: Paper #1 Due
Mar. 13th
No Class
Mid-term Recess
Mid-term Recess
Mar. 20th
Middle English: Religious Culture
To Read: Selections from Incarnation and Crucifixion lyrics; selections from Julian of Norwich, Book of Showings; selections from Piers Plowman (331-340 only); selections from The Book of Margery Kempe; York Play of the Crucifixion
To Write: Response #4 due; here are suggested prompts.
To Read: Selections from Incarnation and Crucifixion lyrics; selections from Julian of Norwich, Book of Showings; selections from Piers Plowman (331-340 only); selections from The Book of Margery Kempe; York Play of the Crucifixion
To Write: Response #4 due; here are
suggested prompts.Mar. 27th
Medieval to Renaissance: Fantasy and New Worlds
To Read: Voyage of St. Brendan (handout); selections from Mandeville's Travels (handout); More, Utopia, Introduction, and Book 2; selections from Raleigh (923-26); selections from Frobisher, Drake, Amadas and Barlowe, and Hariot (927-43); Drayton, "Ode. To the Virginian Voyage"; Donne, "Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Marvell, "Bermudas," "To His Coy Mistress"; and get a copy of Shakespeare's The Tempest and read Acts 1 and 2 (a copy of the play will be on reserve).
To Write: Quiz #3; Analysis #3 due. Here are some reading prompts, though you don't have to hand a response in this week; some have said that having them is helpful
To Read: Voyage of St. Brendan (handout); selections from Mandeville's Travels (handout); More, Utopia, Introduction, and Book 2; selections from Raleigh (923-26); selections from Frobisher, Drake, Amadas and Barlowe, and Hariot (927-43); Drayton, "Ode. To the Virginian Voyage"; Donne, "Elegy 19. To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Marvell, "Bermudas," "To His Coy Mistress"; and get a copy of Shakespeare's The Tempest and read Acts 1 and 2 (a copy of the play will be on reserve).
To Write: Quiz #3; Analysis #3 due. Here are some
reading prompts, though you don't have to hand a response in this week; some have said that having them is helpfulApr. 3rd
No Class
I will be away at a conference.
(Tuesday April 3rd is the last day to W. I have no problem with letting anyone do so at any time.)
I will be away at a conference.
(Tuesday April 3rd is the last day to W. I have no problem with letting anyone do so at any time.)
Spring Weekend
Apr. 10th
Renaissance: Men, Women, the Good Life, and the Lyric
To Read: Wyatt, "Whoso list to hunt," the translation of Petrarch, Rima 190, "They flee from me"; Howard, "The soote season," the translation of Rima 310, "Love, that doth reign. . .," "Alas, so all things now . . .," the translation of Rima 164; Spenser, Amoretti nos. 1, 37, 54, 64, 75; Ralegh, "What is our life?," "Methough I saw the grave where Laura lay"; Sidney, Astrophil and Stella nos. 1, 2, 7, 9, 34; Shakespeare, sonnet nos. 18, 105, 116, 129, 130; Donne, "The Flea," "The Sun Rising," "The Bait," "A Valediction: Of Weeping," "The Canonization," "The Ecstasy," "Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Jonson, "To Penshurst"; Lanyer, "A Description of Cookham"; Herrick, "The Vine," "Dreams," "Delight in Disorder," "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress," "Upon Appleton House"; Carew, “To Saxham"; tracts by Swetnam and Speght (1544-1549), and Queen Elizabeth, "On Marriage" (handout);
To Write: Response #5 due; here are suggested prompts.
To Read: Wyatt, "Whoso list to hunt," the translation of Petrarch, Rima 190, "They flee from me"; Howard, "The soote season," the translation of Rima 310, "Love, that doth reign. . .," "Alas, so all things now . . .," the translation of Rima 164; Spenser, Amoretti nos. 1, 37, 54, 64, 75; Ralegh, "What is our life?," "Methough I saw the grave where Laura lay"; Sidney, Astrophil and Stella nos. 1, 2, 7, 9, 34; Shakespeare, sonnet nos. 18, 105, 116, 129, 130; Donne, "The Flea," "The Sun Rising," "The Bait," "A Valediction: Of Weeping," "The Canonization," "The Ecstasy," "Elegy 19: To His Mistress Going to Bed"; Jonson, "To Penshurst"; Lanyer, "A Description of Cookham"; Herrick, "The Vine," "Dreams," "Delight in Disorder," "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress," "Upon Appleton House"; Carew, “To Saxham"; tracts by Swetnam and Speght (1544-1549), and Queen Elizabeth, "On Marriage" (handout);
To Write: Response #5 due; here are
suggested prompts.Apr. 17th
Renaissance: Religious Devotion
To Read: Robert Southwell, "The Burning Babe" (on page 640); John Donne, the Holy Sonnets (compare to Shakespeare, sonnet no. 71), "Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward," and the selections from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; George Herbert, "Easter Wings," "Church Monuments," "The Pilgrimage," "The Collar," "The Pulley"; Henry Vaughan, "The World"; Richard Crashaw, "On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord," "Luke 11.[27], Blessed be the Paps," "In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God"; John Milton, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"; and begin Paradise Lost, Book 1 (read at least up to 1.241)
To Write: Analysis #4 due (write a sonnet!). NOTE that this is now extra credit.
To Read: Robert Southwell, "The Burning Babe" (on page 640); John Donne, the Holy Sonnets (compare to Shakespeare, sonnet no. 71), "Good Friday 1613, Riding Westward," and the selections from Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions; George Herbert, "Easter Wings," "Church Monuments," "The Pilgrimage," "The Collar," "The Pulley"; Henry Vaughan, "The World"; Richard Crashaw, "On the Wounds of Our Crucified Lord," "Luke 11.[27], Blessed be the Paps," "In the Holy Nativity of Our Lord God"; John Milton, "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity"; and begin Paradise Lost, Book 1 (read at least up to 1.241)
To Write: Analysis #4 due (write a sonnet!). NOTE that this is now extra credit.
Apr. 24th
Renaissance: John Milton
To Read:
Milton, "On Shakespeare," "When I Consider how My Light is Spent," and Paradise Lost, Books 1-3
To Write: Quiz #4
To Read:
Milton, "On Shakespeare," "When I Consider how My Light is Spent," and Paradise Lost, Books 1-3To Write: Quiz #4
May 1st
Milton, cont'd; and Course Review
To Read: Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 4, 9.
To Write: Paper #2 Due
To Read:
Milton, Paradise Lost, Books 4, 9.To Write: Paper #2 Due
Final Exam: The Final will be held on Tuesday, May 8, from 6-8 pm in our classroom