Reading schedule

     This page will show the readings we'll be discussing in each class, as well as all writing assignments.  All of our books are available in the Caltech bookstore; if you like, see the list of required books. 

     As a rough guide, each week's reading will probably take you three to four hours.  If you add about an hour for writing up a one-page Problem, and also allow for a fast re-reading and note-taking session before our discussion, you should plan to spend about six hours.  For many people, it may work best to spread the reading time over at least two sessions.

     Please remember that one-page Problems are due at 6 pm, one hour before class; you can turn them in by email (haugen@hss.caltech.edu) or on paper to my office (301d Dabney).  The first of these is due for our second class on January 11.

4 January
Rejected!  The Woeful Origins of Love Poetry
      Handouts and discussion of poems by Ben Jonson, John Dowland, John Donne, and Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
      Poetry as a Second Language (PSL) handout (.pdf)

11 January
Love poetry:  Tell Me Another One
      Reading:  Spenser, Amoretti numbers 1-27 (pp. 343-57 in English Sixteenth-Century Verse)
      You should be able to give rough translations of these poems, using the tricks of PSL and (if necessary) consulting the Oxford English Dictionary.
      Due:  Problem 1

18 January
Love poetry:  Mr. Peabody's Private School for the Extremely Clever
      Reading:  Donne poems from Broadview Anthology:   "The Apparition" and "The Flea" (103), "Love's Alchemy" (104), "The Indifferent" (104-5), "The Anniversary" (105), "Confined Love" (107), "A Valediction: of Weeping" (109), "The Ecstasy" (109-10), "Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day" (112-13), and Elegies 6, 7, and 8 (114-16)
      Due:  Problem 2

25 January
Love poetry:  The John Donne Fan Club
      Reading:  in the Broadview Anthology, please reread Donne's "The Ecstasy" (109-10), and also read Henry King's "Exequy" (354-56) and Thomas Carew's "A Rapture" (382-84) and "The Second Rapture" (388)
      Due:  Problem 3

1 February
Love poetry:  The Simple Life
      Reading:  Marvell poems from Broadview Anthology:  "The Gallery" (832-33), "The Definition of Love" (833-34), "To His Coy Mistress" (834-35), "The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Fawn" (838-40), "The Garden" (855-56), and the four Mower poems (858-60)
      Due:  Commentary project (bring 3 hard copies to class)

8 February
Love poetry:  Men Behaving Badly
      Reading:  poems by Stanley (.pdf) and by Rochester (in Broadview Anthology, "The Disabled Debauchee" [1159-60], "Song" [1160], "The Imperfect Enjoyment" [1160-61])
      Your Commentary project will be handed back
      Due:  Footnotes to your commentary

15 February
Christian devotion:  Picture, If You Will
      Reading:  poems by Donne and Herbert from Broadview Anthology

      Due:  Problem 4
      Explanation of the final paper project will be handed out (see also "Quotation and Paraphrase" handout)

22 February
Christian devotion:  Lights, Camera, Bible
      Reading:  Milton, Samson Agonistes (in Broadview Anthology, 524-53) and, for plot summary, chapters 13, 14, 15, and 16 of the Book of Judges
      Due:  Problem 5 (.doc)

1 March
Other worlds:  Back in the Day. . .
      Reading:  Spenser, The Faerie Queene Book Five:  the poetic prologue and canto 1 (pp. 3-16), then cantos 4-7 (pp. 45-102).
      Due:  final paper (you need to bring three hard copies so we can do a peer review during next week's class)

8 March
Other worlds:  Revenge of the Nerds
      Reading:  Francis Bacon's short story the New Atlantis (the first text in the yellow book) and selections from his Advancement of Learning, pp. 49-57 and 100-104 (the last text in the yellow book)
      Due:  written comments on your classmates' papers for a peer review session during this class

16 March (Friday of finals week)
      Revision of Paper 2 is due in Prof. Haugen's office, 301d Dabney


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