Syllabus [longer and more difficult assignments are in bold]

Jan 20 introduction
The Romantic Period , pages 1261-1279

Jan 25 Blake biography [1280-1284]
The Lamb [1289] and The Tyger [1296], The Chimney Sweeper [1290 and 1295], Holy Thursday
[1292 and 1295], The Sick Rose [1296], London [1298] and And did those feet [1325]
Jan 27 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell [1312-1322]
The Song of Liberty [1323
Mock on, Mock on [1324]

Feb 1 Wordsworth biography [1328-1331
We Are Seven [1331], I wandered lonely as a cloud [1381
Strange Fits of Passion [1352], She dwelt [135
Sonnet [1393-1395]
Feb 3 Prelude Preface [1340, 1347, 1351]
Tintern Abbey [1336-1340]
Intimations of Immortality [1382-1389]

Feb 8 Coleridge biography [1481-1484]
Kubla Khan [1504], Christabel [1506-1521]
Dejection: An Ode [1524-1526], Frost at Midnight [1522-1524]
Feb 10 Ancient Mariner [1487-1504]

Feb 15 Byron biography [1550-1554]
So, we'll go no more aroving [1559], Childe Harold [1560-1577]
Feb 17 Shelley biography [1668-1671]
Ode to the West Wind [1700-1702], Sky Lark [1733-1735]
Mont Blanc [1690-1694], Intellectual Beauty [1694-1696]
Ozymandias [1696], Men of England [1698], England in 1819 [1698]
Prometheus Unbound [1703-1706, 1730]

Feb 22 Keats biography [1767-1770]
Chapman's Homer [1770], La Belle Dame Sans Merci [1788-1789]
Ode to a Nightingale [1791-1793], Ode to a Grecian Urn [1793-1795]
Feb 24 EXAM

Feb 29 The Victorian Period introduction [1833-1853]
Tennyson biography [1877-1881]
Ulysses [1891-1893], Light Brigade [1954-1955], Crossing the Bar [1976]
Mar 2 In Memoriam [1906- 1908, 1910, 1920, 1925-1927, 1948, 1952-1954]

Furlough

Mar 14 Browning biography [1854-1855], How do I love thee [1857]
Browning biography [1976- 1982]
Porphyria's Lover [1982-1983], My Last Duchess [1985-1986]
Mar 16 Caliban upon Setebos [2023-2030] PAPER

Mar 28 Hopkins biography [2125-2127]
God's Grandeur [2127], Spring [2129], Spring and Fall [2132]
Hardy biography [2146-2148]
Hap [2148], Channel Firing [2152], Ah, Are You digging [2155], The Workbox [2158]
Mar 30 EXAM

Apr 4 The Twentieth Century [2135-2146]
Yeats biography 2263-2267]
Rose of the World [2268], Lake Isle of Innisfree [2269], When You Are Old [2270] and Adam's
Curse 2273] and No Second Troy [2274], September 1913 [2275] vs Easter 1916 [2278],
Apr 6 The Second Coming [2280], Sailing to Byzantium [2282], Leda and the Swan [2283, 2258, 2260],
Crazy Jane [2289], The Circus Animals' Desertion [2292-2294]

Apr 11 Joyce biography [2340-2345], Proteus [2374-2388] and Anna Livia [2414- 2418] [as much as you
can bear]
Woolf biography [2299-2301, The Mark on the Wall [2301-2306], A Room of One's Own [2311-
2317]
Apr 13 Lawrence biography [2418-2421], Love on the Farm [2450-2451], How Beastly the Bourgeois Is
[2454], The horsed-Dealer's Daughter [2434-2446]

Apr 18 Eliot biography [2455-2458]
Prufrock [2459-2463], The Waste Land [2465-2480]
Apr 20 The Waste Land [2465-2480], Four Quartets [2482-2489]

May 2 review and catch-up
May 4

SAMPLE FINAL EXAM FOR BRITLIT 202

1. For I have learned
To look on nature, not as in the hour
Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
The still, sad music of humanity.

2. About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window
or just walking dully along; . . .

3. Ah, love, let us be true To one another!
For the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;

4. I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings; it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity

5. I saw pale kings, and princes too,
Pale warriors, death pale were they all;
They cried -- "La belle dame sans merci Hath thee in thrall!"

6. I hold it true, whate'er befall;
I hold it when I sorrow most:
'Tis better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved at all.

7. Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table;

8. Mind-forged manacles

9. Oh, wedding guest, this soul hath been
Alone on a wide, wide sea;
So lonely 'twas that God himself
Scarce seemed there to be.

10. The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
It will flame out, like shining from shook foil;
It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil
Crushed. Why then do men not reck his rod?
Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;

11. The trumpet of a prophecy!
O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

12. Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die;
Into the valley of death
Rode the six hundred.

13. Thinketh, such shows nor right nor wrong in Him,
Nor kind, nor cruel: He is strong and Lord.
Am strong myself compared to yonder crabs
That march now from the mountain to the sea;
Let twenty pass, and stone the twenty-first,
Loving not, hating not, just choosing so. . . .
As it likes me each time, I do; so He.

14. This makes the mad men who have made men mad
By their contagion; . . .
And are themselves the fools to those they fool;
Envied, yet how uneviable!

15. Twit twit twit
Jug jug jug jug jug jug
So rudely forc'd. Tereu

16. Wandering between two worlds, one dead,
The other powerless to be born,
With nowhere yet to rest my head,
Like these, on earth I wait forlorn.
Their faith, my tears, the world deride --
I come to shed them at their side.

17. "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," -- that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

18. "The horror! The horror"

19. "What would have happened had Shakespeare had a wonderfully gifted sister, called Judith, let us say."

20. "'To be born woman is to know --
Although they do not talk of it at school,
That we must labour to be beautiful.'"

PLEASE HAND THIS SHEET BACK IN WITH YOUR ANSWERS._

Part II: Do NOT begin this part until you have handed in Part I. Discuss one [1] of the following in a well-organized essay that demonstrates your mastery of the course material. Remember: you should discuss all three periods and demonstrate your familiarity with an impressive number of writers and their works. [50% of exam grade -- take your time]

1. Despite the apparent power and popularity of a secularized world view, the spiritual remains of crucial importance to the arts and, while the words may vary, the very human nature of spiritual needs and solutions remain eternally the same.

2. Although nearly all of the writers we have studied paid lip service to the fundamental opposition of the natural and the mechanical, many nevertheless used imagery and metaphors drawn from the mechanical. Discuss how even the opponents of the industrialization of humanity unwittingly reveal their infection by what they profess to abhor.

3. Addressing both Arnold's notion of disinterestedness and Woolf's parable about Shakespeare's sister, evaluate this course's pretensions to being an accurate survey of "British Literature Since 1750."

4. Explain why Shelley's "unacknowledged legislators of the world" "make nothing happen" by Auden's day.

PLEASE HAND THIS SHEET BACK IN WITH YOUR EXAM.

Significance
Many cadets lose points because they plot summarize rather than discuss significance of quotes. Don't tell me what the quote says; tell me why what it says is important in terms of the course. Tie the quote to others like it; discuss its literary or social, economic, or political implications; analyze striking aspects of its language. In short, try to figure out why Leland picked this quote in particular.