E211 British Lit. to 1760 Schedule, Fall 2010 – Alfred J. Drake's Academic Site

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760
CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2010

*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, Course Code 17798, Section 1. MW 2:30 – 3:45 p.m., University Hall (UH) 248. Instructor: Alfred J. Drake, Ph.D. Office hours: MW 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. in University Hall 329. Email: e211@ajdrake.com. Catalog: “Major periods and movements, major authors, and major forms through 1760. Units (3). Satisfies requirements for General Education (GE) Category III.B.2 with grade of C or better.“

REQUIRED TEXTS AT TITAN BOOKSTORE

Abrams, M. H. et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed. New York: Norton, 2006. Package 1 (Vols. ABC) ISBN 0-393-92833-0.

Shakespeare, William. Coriolanus. Simon and Schuster, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0671722586.

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.

SCHEDULE: WORKS DISCUSSED ON DATES INDICATED

WEEK 1

08/23. Course Introduction.

08/25. Bede, Anonymous. From Bede’s Ecclesiastical History (24-27). Anonymous author’s “The Dream of the Rood” (27-29).

WEEK 2

08/30. Geoffrey Chaucer. From The Canterbury Tales “The Wife of Bath’s Prologue” (256-75).

09/01. Geoffrey Chaucer. From The Canterbury Tales. “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” (275-84).

WEEK 3

09/06. Labor Day Holiday. Campus closed.

09/08. Thomas Malory. From Malory’s Morte Darthur (438-56).

WEEK 4

09/13. Sir Thomas Wyatt. “The long love…” (594); “Whoso list to hunt” (595); “My galley” (597); “Divers doth use” (598); “Madam, withouten many words” (599); “They flee from me,” both versions (599-600); “My lute, awake!” (600-01); “Forget not yet” (601-02); “Blame not my lute” (602-03); “Who list his wealth and ease retain” (603-04); “Mine Own John Poins” (604-06).

09/15. Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Philip Sidney. Elizabeth I’s “A Speech to a Joint Delegation of Lords and Commons, Nov. 5, 1566” (692-94); “A Letter to Sir Amyas Paulet, August 1586” (697); “A Letter to King James VI of Scotland, February 14, 1587” (697-98); “Verse Exchange between Elizabeth and Sir Walter Ralegh” (698-99); “Speech to the Troops at Tilbury” (699-700); “Golden Speech” (1700-03). Sidney’s “The Defense of Poesy” (953-68 only).

JOURNAL SET 1 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 09/19. (Reminder: this set includes Bede through Sidney.)

WEEK 5

09/20. Edmund Spenser and Christopher Marlowe. Spenser’s “Epithalamion” (907-16). Marlowe’s “Hero and Leander” (1004-22).

09/22. Sir Walter Ralegh, Thomas Hariot. Ralegh’s “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd” (917-18); “What is our life? (918); “…to His Son” (918-19); “The Lie” (919-21); “Farewell, False Love” (921); “Methought I saw the grave where Laura lay” (921-22); “Nature, that washed her hands in milk” (922-23); “The Author’s Epitaph…” (923); from The discovery of the large, rich, and beautiful Empire of Guiana (923-26) and The History of the World (926). Hariot’s Report on Virginia (938-43).

WEEK 6

09/27. William Shakespeare. Coriolanus. Acts 1-3. (Folger edition, separate paperback.)

09/29. William Shakespeare. Coriolanus. Acts 4-5. (Folger edition, separate paperback.)

WEEK 7

10/04. John Donne. “The Flea” (1263); “The Good-Morrow “ (1263-64); “The Sun Rising” (1266); “The Canonization” (1267-68); “A Nocturnal upon Saint Lucy’s Day” (1272-73); “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” (1275-76); “The Ecstasy” (1276-78); from “Holy Sonnets” (1295-99), “Good Friday, 1613. Riding Westward” (1299-1300); from Devotions upon Emergent Occasions and “Death’s Duel” (1303-08).

10/06. Ben Jonson. The Masque of Blacknesse (1326-34); “On My First Son” (1430); “On Lucy, Countess of Bedford” (1430); “Inviting a Friend to Supper” (1431-32); “To Penshurst” (1434-36); “Song: To Celia” (1436); from “A Celebration of Charis in Ten Lyric Pieces” (1437-38); “To the Memory of my Beloved, The Author, Mr. William Shakespeare…” (1444-46); from Timber, or Discoveries (1448-51).

WEEK 8

10/11. Sir Francis Bacon. From Essays (1552-63) and Novum Organum (1565-69).

10/13. George Herbert. “The Altar” (1607) “Redemption” (1607), “Easter” (1608), “Easter Wings” (1609), “Affliction (I)” (1609), “Prayer (1)” (1611), “Jordan (1)” (1611), “Denial” (1613), “Jordan (2)” (1615), “Time” (1616), “The Bunch of Grapes” (1617), “The Pilgrimage” (1618), “The Pulley” (1620), “The Flower” (1621), “Discipline” (1623), “Death” (1624).

JOURNAL SET 2 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 10/17. (Reminder: this set includes Wyatt through Herbert.)

WEEK 9

10/18. John Milton. “Sonnets” (1826-29) and “Areopagitica” (1816-25).

10/20. John Milton. Paradise Lost, Book 1 (1830-50).

WEEK 10

10/25. John Milton. Paradise Lost, Books 2-3 (1850-87).

10/27. John Milton. Paradise Lost, Books 4, 9 (1887-1908, 1973-98).

WEEK 11

11/01. Alexander Pope. The Rape of the Lock (2513-32).

11/03. Alexander Pope. “Eloisa to Abelard” (2533-40); from “Essay on Criticism” (2496-2513).

WEEK 12

11/08. John Gay. The Beggar’s Opera (2611-56).

11/10. John Gay. The Beggar’s Opera (2611-56).

JOURNAL SET 3 DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 11/14. (Reminder: this set includes Milton through Gay.)

WEEK 13

11/15. Jonathan Swift. From A Tale of a Tub (2315-23).

11/17. Joseph Addison and Sir Richard Steele. “The Aims of the Spectator” (2473-75); “Inkle and Yarico” (2476-78); “The Royal Exchange” (2478-81) “Wit: True, False, Mixed” (2481-85); “Paradise Lost: General Critical Remarks” (2485-88); “The Pleasures of the Imagination” (2488-90); “On the Scale of Being” (2490-92).

PARAGRAPH ON PAPER TOPIC & ARGUMENT. DUE BY EMAIL SUNDAY 11/21.

WEEK 14

11/22. Fall Recess. No Classes.

WEEK 15

11/29. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (2680-2743).

12/01. Samuel Johnson. The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia (2680-2743); Rambler #4 “On Fiction” (2743-46); “Preface” to Shakespeare (2755-66).

WEEK 16

12/06. James Boswell. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. (2778-2810).

12/08. Frances Burney. Journal and Letters. (2810-27).

JOURNAL SET 4 DUE BY EMAIL EXAM DAY 12/15. (Reminder: this set includes Swift through Burney.)

FINALS WEEK

Final Exam Date Wednesday, December 15, 2:30 – 4:20 p.m. Due by email by Sunday, Dec. 19: Term Paper. (I must turn in grades by January 3, 2011.) For your other courses, check CSUF’s Final Exam Schedule.

READING SCHEDULE FOR E211 BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1760CSU FULLERTON, FALL 2010