Studies in Representative British Authors
(English 241) 
Fall 2002 
Jackson Hall 113 
MWF 1-1:50		 David Havird
Jackson Hall 311, 869-5085 
dhavird@centenary.edu
http://personal.centenary.edu/~dhavird/
Office Hours: M 2-4, W 2-3, and by appointment
 
Calendar of Assignments
Updated 4 December 2002
 
 
Week (Monday's date)
Assignment
Week 1 (19 August) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Week 2 (26 August) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (M)

Marvell, "To His Coy Mistress" (1), "The Definition of Love" (2), "The Mower to the Glowworms" (3), "The Mower Against Gardens" (4), "Damon the Mower" (5), "The Mower's Song" (7) (W)

Marvell, "The Gallery" (10), "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn" (14), "The Picture of Little T. C. in a Prospect of Flowers" (23), "The Garden" (24), "Bermudas" (26) (F)
Week 3 (2 September) Labor Day Holiday (M)

Marvell, "A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body" (30), "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" (34) (W)

Marvell, "Upon Appleton House" (37) (F)
Week 4 (9 September) John Leonard, Introduction, Paradise Lost vii-xii (M)
Milton, Paradise Lost 1.1-330 (M)

PL 2 (W)

PL 3 (F)

Essay 1 (F)
Week 5 (16 September) Milton, Paradise Lost 4 (M)

PL 8.250ff and 9 (WF)
 
Week 6 (23 September) Shenandoah Shakespeare Express
  • Merry Wives of Windsor (M and Th, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
  • Macbeth (T and F, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
  • Love's Labour's Lost (W and Sat, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
Pope, The Rape of the Lock
Week 7 (30 September)

Fall Break (Friday, 4 October)

 Test (M)

Richard Holmes, Introduction, Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Selected Poems, xi-xx (W)
Coleridge, "To the River Otter" (11), "To a Friend who Asked, How I Felt" (18), "Frost at Midnight" (46), "Kubla Khan" (229), "The Pains of Sleep" (202) (W)
Week 8 (7 October) Coleridge, "The Eolian Harp" (36), "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (43), "A Letter to Sara Hutchinson" (169), "Dejection: An Ode" (179), "Phantom" (185) (M)

Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (W)

Coleridge, "Christabel" (101), "Work without Hope" (25), "Epitaph" (222) (F)
Week 9 (14 October) Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" reprise

Trollope, Barchester Towers (1-115 W)

Barchester Towers (115-234 F)

Essay 2 (F)
Week 10 (21 October) Barchester Towers (Vol. 1.234-2.73 M)

Barchester Towers (73-187 W)

Barchester Towers (187-271 F)

Presentation of Corrington Award to Eavan Boland (Th, 7 PM, Kilpatrick Auditorium)
Week 11 (28 October) Barchester Towers (M)

Graves, Good-Bye to All That (1-90 W)

Good-Bye to All That (91-225 F)
Week 12 (4 November) Revision of Essay 1 (M)

Good-Bye to All That (225-347 M)

Web Workshop, JH 305 (W)

Mansfield, "Bliss" (143), "Je Ne Parle Pas Francais" (157) (F)

Web Project (F)--Date changed to Th, 22 November!
Week 13 (11 November) Mansfield, "Je Ne Parle Pas Francais" (reprise), "The Man Without a Temperament" (197) (M)

Mansfield, "The Stranger" (224), "The Daughters of the Late Colonel" (237) (W)

Mansfield, "Prelude" (51) (F)
Week 14 (18 November) Mansfield, "The Garden Party" (282), "The Doll's House" 314) (M)

Boland, "The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me" (19), "Object Lessons" (22), "The Game" (25), "Mountain Time" (28), "We Were Neutral in the War" (30) (W) 

Web Project (Th)

Boland, "The Achill Woman" (35), "The Making of an Irish Goddess" (38), "Daphne Heard with Horror the Addresses of the God" (41), "What We Lost" (48), "Outside History" (50) (F) 
Week 15 (25 November) Thanksgiving Break
Week 16 (2 December) Boland, "The Oral Tradition" (75), "The Women" (84), "Fever" (87), "The Journey" (93), "An Irish Childhood in England: 1951" (106)
Final Examinations (9 December) Final Exam (W, 8:30-11:30 AM)
 
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