Syllabus
| Date | Readings | Assignments |
| January | ||
| 23 M | Course Introduction | |
| 25 W | Petrarch, "Letter to Posterity" (H) | |
 ANTIQUITY |
||
| 27 F | The Odyssey, Books 1-5 (156-218) Keats. "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" |
|
| 30 M | The Odyssey, Books 9-12 (218-274) | Brief #1 Due |
| February | ||
| 1 W | The Odyssey, Books 19-24 ( 274-326) | |
| 3 F | Antigone (409-445) | |
| 6 M | Antigone |
|
| 8 W | Old Testament: Genesis 1-22 | |
| 10 F | Old Testament: Job 1-14, 29-31. 38-42 | |
| 13 M | Old Testament: Song of Songs | Brief #2 Due |
| 15 W | Sappho (326-334) Catullus (549-554) |
|
| 17 F | Ovid, Metamorphoses (642-674) | |
| 20 M | New Testament: Mathew 1-7, 24-28 | Brief #3 Due |
| 22 W | John 103, 11, 18-21 |
|
| Evolving Canon Special Event: "Canons Across the Curriculum" 8 pm, Room TBA |
||
| 24 F | New Testament: Revelation 1, 4, 6-8, 12-13, 17, 19-22 | |
| THE MIDDLE AGES |
||
| 27 M | "The Wife's Lament" (1117-1118) "The Husband's Message (1118-1120) "The Dream of the Rood" (H) |
|
| March | ||
| 1 W | Latin and Medieval Religious Lyrics (H) | |
| 3 F | Margery Kempe, The Book of Margery Kempe (1371-1391) | Brief #4 Due |
| 6M | Andreas Capellanus, "The Art of Courtly Love" (1505-1515) | |
| 8 W | Mid-term Examination | |
| 10 F | Marie de France, "The Lay of Chevrefoil" (1263-1264) Provencal poetry: Marcabru, Benart de Ventadorn, Coutess of Dia, and Peire Vidal (1248-1261) |
|
| 11-19 | Spring Vacation | |
| 20 M | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 1-10 (968-997) | |
| 22 W | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 11-18 (997-1024) | |
| 24 F | Dante, Inferno, Cantos 19-34 (1024-1048) Robert Frost, "Fire and Ice" |
|
| 27 M | Boccaccio, Decameron. Tenth Day, Tenth Story (H) | Paper topics distributed |
| 29 W | Petrarch, "The Story of Gridselda" (H) Chaucer, "The Clerk's Tale" (H); "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale" (1324-1347) |
Brief #5 Due |
| THE RENAISSANCE |
||
| 31 F | Pico della Mirandola, "On the Dignity of Man" (2202-2205) | |
| April | ||
| 3 M | Marlowe, Dr. Faustus (1552-1608) | |
| 5 W | Marlowe, Dr. Faustus | |
| Evolving Canon Special Event: "EC Connections" (Student Panel) 8 pm, Room TBA |
||
| 7 F | Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Cantos I-IV | |
| 10 M | Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Cantos V-IX | Brief #6 Due |
| 12 W | Spenser, The Fairie Queene, Cantos X-XII | |
| 14 F | Shakespeare, Sonnets (2050-2052) | Working Drafts Due |
| 17 M | Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 1-2 (1826-1859) | Critique Letters for Working Drafts Exchanged |
| 19 W | Shakespeare, The Tempest, Acts 3-5 (1859-1888) | |
| 21 F | Donne (2053-2059) | Brief #7 Due |
| 24 M | Herbert (H), (2059-2060) | |
| 26 W | Eliot, "Tradition and The Individual Talent" (H) | Paper Due |
| 28 F | Course Evaluations | |
| May | ||
| 1M | Formal Review for the Final Examination | |
| 10 W | Final Examination (1:30-4:30 P.M., 301 PMH) | |