Syllabus
| Date | Readings | Assignments |
| January | ||
| 24 M | Course Introduction | |
| 26 W | Petrarch, "Letter to Posterity" (H) | |
 ANTIQUITY |
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| 28 F | The Odyssey, Books 1-5 (156-218) | |
| 31M | The Odyssey, Books 9-12 (218-274) | |
| February | ||
| 2 W | The Odyssey, Books 19-24 ( 274-326) | |
| 4 F | Antigone (409-445) | |
| 7 M | Antigone |
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| 9 W | Old Testament: Genesis 1-22 | |
| 10 TH | Evolving Canon Special Event: Critic James Wood on The King James Version of the Bible | |
| 11 F | Old Testament: Job 1-14, 29-31. 38-42 | Paper #1 topics distributed in class |
| 14 M | Old Testament: Song of Songs | |
| 16 W | Sappho (326-334) Catullus (549-554) |
Text and Context Notebooks Due |
| 18 F | Ovid, Metamorphoses (642-674) | |
| 21 M | Ovid, Metamorphoses | Working Drafts for Paper #1 Peer Critique Letters |
| 23 W | New Testament: Mathew 1-7, 24-28 John 103, 11, 18-21 |
Critique Letters for Working Drafts |
| 25 F | New Testament: Revelation 1, 4, 6-8, 12-13, 17, 19-22 | |
| THE MIDDLE AGES |
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| 28 M | "The Wife's Lament" (1117-1118) "The Husband's Message (1118-1120) "The Dream of the Rood" (H) |
Paper #1 Due in Class |
| March | ||
| 2 W | Latin and Medieval Religious Lyrics (H) | |
| 4 F | Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (1371-1391) | |
| 7 M | Marie de France, "The Lay of Chevrefoil" (1263-1264) | |
| 9 W | Mid-term Examination | Mid-term Examination |
| 11 F | Provencal poetry: Marcabru, Benart de Ventadorn, Coutess of Dia, and Peire Vidal (1248-1261) | |
| 12-20 | Spring Vacation | |
| 21 M | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1-10 (968-997) | |
| 23 W | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 11-18 (997-1024) | |
| 25 F | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 19-34 (1024-1048) Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" |
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| 28 M | Boccaccio, Decameron. Tenth Day, Tenth Story (H) | |
| 30 W | Petrarch, "The Story of Gridselda" (H) Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale" (H); "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (1324-1347) |
Paper #2 topics distributed |
| 30 W | Evolving Canon Special Event: Evolving Canon Connections. 8 p.m., Davis Auditorium | |
| April | ||
| THE RENAISSANCE |
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| 1 F | Pico della Mirandola, "On the Dignity of Man" (2202-2205) | |
| 4 M | Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (1552-1608) | |
| 6 W | Marlowe, Dr. Faustus | |
| 8 F | Spenser, The Fairie Queene | |
| 11 M | Spenser, The Fairie Queene | |
| 13 W | Spenser, The Fairie Queene | Working Drafts for Paper #2 |
| 15 F | No Class | Critique Letters for Working Drafts of Paper #2 |
| 18 M | Shakespeare, Sonnets (2050-2052) | |
| 20 W | Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 1-2 (1826-1859) | |
| 22 F | Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 3-5 (1859-1888) Montaigne, "Of Cannibals (16681677) |
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| 25 M | Donne (2053-2059) | Paper #2 Due |
| 27 W | Herbert (H), (2059-2060) | |
| 29 F | Eliot, "Tradition and The Individual Talent" (H) | Text and Context Notebooks Due |
| May | ||
| 2 M | Course Evaluations and Review | |
| 12 TH | Final Examination (1:30-4:30, 301 PMH) | |