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ENGL 2122: British Literature II Lessons

Directions: For each lesson below, follow all links and read them carefully. All primary texts may be found in your required textbook. All writing exercises should be completed on Packback discussions.

 note: Before beginning any of the assignments below, consult your specific course syllabus. Not all assignments will be completed by every class. Specific assignments, required materials, due dates, and additional instructions will appear on your syllabus.

1. Orientation

1. Read and review the following links:
   • I’m not an English major: why should I write about literature?
   • How do I begin writing about literature?
   • What are the basics of literary analysis?
   • What are the basics of interpreting a literary text?
   • What are the conventions and vocabulary necessary for writing about literature?

2. The Romantic Period

Introduction

1. Read:
   • Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit
   • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 3–30.
2. Take Period Introduction Quiz on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

2a. William Blake

1. Read:
   • From Songs of Innocence: “Introduction”; “The Lamb”; “The Chimney Sweeper”; “The Blossom”; “The Divine Image”
   • From Songs of Experience: “Introduction”; “Earth’s Answer”; “The Tyger”; “The Chimney Sweeper”; “The Sick Rose”; “The Human Abstract”; “London”
2. Post to Packback.

2b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1. Read:
   • “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
   • “Kubla Khan”
2. Post to Packback.

2c. William Wordsworth

1. Read:
   • “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
   • “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
   • “I travelled among unknown men”
   • “The World Is too Much with Us”
2. Post to Packback.

2d. George Gordon, Lord Byron

1. Read:
   • “She Walks in Beauty”
   • “Darkness”
   • “So We’ll No More Go A-Roving”
2. Post to Packback.

2e. Percy Bysshe Shelley

1. Read:
   • “Ozymandias”
   • “To a Sky-Lark”
   • “Ode to the West Wind”
2. Post to Packback.

2f. John Keats

1. Read:
   • “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
   • “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
   • “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
   • “Ode to a Nightingale”
   • “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
2. Post to Packback.

2g. Other Romantics

1. Read:
   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “The Cry of the Children”; “How do I love thee?”
   • Dorothy Wordsworth: “Grasmere—A Fragment”
2. Post to Packback.

3. The Victorian Period

Introduction

Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott

1. Read:
   • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 527–551
2. Take Period Introduction Quiz on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

3a.

1. Read:
   • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “The Lady of Shalott”; “The Lotos-Eaters”; “Ulysses”
   • Gerard Manley Hopkins: “God’s Grandeur” “The Windhover”
2. Post to Packback.

3b.

1. Read:
   • Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess”; “Porphyria’s Lover”
   • Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”
   • Christina Rossetti “Goblin Market”
2. Post to Packback.

3c. Oscar Wilde

1. Read:
   • The Importance of Being Earnest
2. Take reading quiz on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

4. Edwardian and World War I

Introduction

1. Read:
   • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 1015–1042
2. Take Period Introduction Quiz on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

4a. Rudyard Kipling

1. Read:
   • “The Man Who Would Be King”
2. Take reading quiz on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

4b.

1. Read:
   • E. M. Forster: “The Machine Stops”; “Tolerance”
   • James Joyce “Araby”
2. Take reading quizzes on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

4c. The Poetry of WWI

1. Read:
   • Rupert Brooke: “The Soldier”
   • Siegfried Sassoon: ‘They’”; “The Rear Guard”; “The General”; “Glory of Women”
   • Wilfred Owen: “Anthem for a Doomed Youth”; “Dulce Et Decorum Est”; “Apologia Pro Poemate Meo”
2. Post to Packback.

5. The Modern Period

Hulewicz, Leda and the Swan (1928)

Introduction

1. Read:
   • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 1015–1042
2. Post to Packback.

5a. William Butler Yeats

1. Read:
   • “Leda and the Swan”
   • “The Second Coming”
   • “Sailing to Byzantium”
2. Post to Packback.

5b. T. S. Eliot

1. Read:
   • “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
   • “The Waste Land”
2. Post to Packback.

5c.

1. Read:
   • W. H. Auden: “Musée des Beaux Arts”
   • Dylan Thomas: “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
2. Post to Packback.

5d. Virginia Woolf

1. Read:
   • “The Mark on the Wall”
   • “Professions for Women”
2. Take reading quizzes on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

6. The Contemporary Period

6a. Poetry

1. Read:
   • Philip Larkin: “The Mower”; “Talking in Bed”
   • Seamus Heany: “Digging”; “Clearances”; “Punishment”; “The Skunk”
2. Post to Packback.

6b.

1. Read:
   • Nadine Gordimer: “The Moment before the Gun Went Off”
   • Katherine Mansfield: “The Garden Party”
2. Take reading quizzes on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

6c.

1. Read:
   • Margaret Atwood: “Death by Landscape”
   • Salman Rushdie: “The Prophet’s Hair”
2. Take reading quizzes on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

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notes

Written: 2002, 2022; Revised: 07-31-2024; Version: Beta 0.7

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