Calendar (Spring 2011)

ENGL 520

Dr. Fike

 

Date Reading Writing and  Announcements
M, Jan. 10 Snow day  
W, Jan. 12

PROSE

Snow day

  

M, Jan. 17
 MLK day--no class  
W, Jan. 19  

Religious Prose

John Bunyan, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners and The Pilgrim's Progress (953-64) 

 

  
M, Jan. 24  

Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici (465-88)

 

  
W, Jan. 26

 

Jeremy Taylor, Funeral Sermon and Holy Living, Holy Dying (673-91)

 

  
M, Jan. 31

Secular Prose

Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, Urne-Burial (489-97)

 

 First Response Paper due (explore something that you might like to write your term paper about)
W, Feb. 2  

Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy (188-217); Burton handout

 

  
M, Feb. 7  

John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1029-35)

 

  
W, Feb. 9

 

Bacon, Essays (25-47)

 

  
M, Feb. 14

POETRY

Religious Poetry

Donne, Devotions and Divine Poems (128-32; 122-28)

 

 Second Response Paper due (explore something that you might like to write your term paper about; OR take your first RP a step further)
W, Feb. 16  

Herbert, The Temple (363-79)

 

  
M, Feb. 21  

Herbert, continued

 

  
W, Feb. 23  

Vaughan, poems (872-85)

 

  
M, Feb. 28

 

Traherne, poems (1083-94)

 

 Third Response Paper due (ideally, this assignment should be an annotated bibliography--10 critical sources for undergraduates, 15-20 for graduate students)
W, Mar. 2

Secular Poetry

  • Donne, Songs and Sonnets (102-14)

  • Eliot’s "The Metaphysical Poets" (http://personal.centenary.edu/~dhavird/TSEMetaPoets.html)

 

  
M, Mar. 7  

Donne, Elegies and "Satire III" (114-22)

 

  

W, Mar. 9
 Jonson, poems (146-63):  "On My First Son" and "To Penshurst" only  
M, Mar. 14

Spring Break--no class

  
W, Mar. 16  

Spring Break--no class

 

  
M, Mar. 21  

MIDTERM EXAMINATION

 

 Midterm Examination in class
W, Mar. 23  

Jonson (146-63):  All poems except "On My First Son" and "To Penshurst"

 

  
M, Mar. 28  

Herrick, poems (309-23)

 

 Fourth Response Paper due (ideally, this assignment should be a researched outline of your term paper)
W, Mar. 30  

Marvell, poems (829-71), especially "To His Coy Mistress" and "Definition of Love"

 

  
M, Apr. 4  

Marvell, continued, especially "The Coronet," "Dialogue between the Soul and Body," "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn," "Upon Appleton House," "An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's Return From Ireland," and "The First Anniversary of the Government under His Highness the Lord Protector"

 

  
W, Apr. 6

THREE MAJOR EVENTS

The Civil War and the Politics of Religion

  • Laud, The Diary of…William Laud (164-82)

  • Charles I, "A Proclamation and Declaration," etc. (420-23)

  • William Walwyn, "The Bloody Project" (434-42)           

  • Queen Henrietta Maria, The Queen’s Letter (606-08)

  • Edward Hyde, "The Character of William Laud" (609-17)

  • Hyde, "The Temper and Spirit of the Nation after 1660" (618-22)

  • King Charles II, "The Declaration of Breda" (965-66)  

  • Charles I, Letter to Prince Rupert (1218) 

  • "Information from the Scottish Nation" (1235-36)             

  • "The Trial of King Charles I" (1261-65)    

Optional reading:

  •  Evelyn, "The Restoration" (800-01)

  •  Wood, "Notes on Oxford during the Interregnum" and "The Restoration" (1021-25)

  •  Burnett, "The Restoration" (1149-54)

  
M, Apr. 11  

Hobbes, Leviathan (239-71)   

 

 Draft of long paper due (this is a researched draft--at least 5 critical sources for undergraduates, at least 10 critical sources for graduate students; turnitin.com I.D. is 3713045; password "winthrop")
W, Apr. 13

Colonialism

  • Bacon, "Of Plantations" (43-44)

  • Drayton, "To the Virginian Voyage" (63-64)

  • Rowlandson, The Sovereignty and Goodness of God, etc. (1068-79)

  • Watts, A True Relation of the Inhumane and Unparallel'd Actions, etc. (1266-75)

  
M, Apr. 18  

Behn, Oroonoko (paperback)

 

  
W, Apr. 20  

Behn, continued

 

  
M, Apr. 25

The Great Fire

  • Overbury, The Overburian Character (218-21)

  • Hyde, Plague and Fire (622-31)

  • Evelyn, The Fire of London (802-06)

  • Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys (1047-55)

 Final draft of long paper due

Course evaluation in class today
 
Final examination:  Saturday, April 30th, 11:30 a.m.
  

 

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