Slide Shows and Handouts
Note: I am giving you a set of materials that it took me over 20 years to develop. I do not have to do this. What I expect in return is that you will not have my slide shows in front of you during class. Many of the slide shows contain questions and suggested answers. It is enough that I am giving you a semester's worth of notes. Having answers to questions in front of you defeats the purpose of discussion.
Anglo-Saxon Literary Context (background on the A-S period)
"Deor's Lament" and "The Wanderer"
* Dr. Fike's article on "The Wanderer": http://0-dacus.winthrop.edu.library.winthrop.edu/eReserves/engl203f-1.pdf
"Maldon," Beowulf, "Rood"
Chaucer's "General Prologue" (includes background on the Medieval period)
* "General Prologue" Handout
Chaucer's Wife of Bath's "Prologue" and "Tale"
Chaucer's Pardoner's "Prologue" and "Tale"
Marlowe's Doctor Faustus (includes background on the Renaissance/Early Modern Period)
* Dr. Fike's article on teaching Doctor Faustus: http://www2.widener.edu/~cea/371fike.htm
* Chronology of the Elizabethan Period
Sidney's Astrophel and Defence
Shakespeare's Sonnets
* Handout on Shakespeare's Sonnets
Milton's "Lycidas"
Milton's Paradise Lost
Donne's poems
Swift's "A Modest Proposal" (includes background on the 18th Century)
Pope's The Rape of the Lock
Swift's Gulliver's Travels
* Great Chain of Being: http://dangerousintersection.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/06/Great_Chain_of_Being%20-%20new.jpg
Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience (includes background on the Romantic period)
Wordsworth's "Preface" and "Tintern Abbey"
Wordsworth's Prelude and Coleridge's Poems
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VXbrSALG684
* Victorian Handout (background on Victorian period)
Tennyson, Browning, Arnold Slide Show
* Handout on Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold
Mill and Newman
* Modernism Handout (background on Modern period)
Conrad Day One
Conrad Day Two
Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Yeats's poems
