Rauch - English 3050
| Day | Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment |
| Mon. | Aug. 19 | Intro | ||
| Wed. | Aug. 21 | History of England in 45 minutes | Religions in England/Persistence (Vol. 2A) | |
| Fri. | Aug. 23 | British Customs/Parliament/Religion | British Customs/Parliament/Religion | |
| Mon. | Aug. 26 | British Customs/Parliament/Religion | British Customs/Parliament/Religion | Knowledge Topic Assignments |
| Wed. | Aug. 28 | The Epic | Blake's Poetry | |
| Fri. | Aug. 30 | Religion and Rationality | Dryden: Annus Mirabilis; Absalom & Achitophel ll. 1-84; "Progress of Satire" (p. 2120-2121). Pepys: The Great Fire, 2123-2127. | |
| Mon. | Sept. 2 | Labor Day | ||
| Wed. | Sept. 4 | Religion and Rationality | Pepys: Great Fire/Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress/Locke: Essay | |
| Fri. | Sept. 6 | Women and the Oppressed | Behn: Oroonoko (to 2179)/Cavendish:Blazing World/Astell: Marriage (2280 ALL) | Quiz 1 |
| Mon. | Sept. 9 | |||
| Wed. | Sept. 11 | |||
| Fri. | Sept. 13 | |||
| Mon. | Sept. 16 | |||
| Wed. | Sept. 18 | Women and the Oppressed | Swift: "On the Death"/Lilliput2329-2346/Houyhnhms 2428--2435 & 2465-2473 (Ch. 11) | |
| Fri. | Sept. 20 | Wit & Satire | A Modest Proposal (all) | |
| Mon. | Sept. 23 | Wit & Satire | Pope: An Essay on Man (2555 ff - all), Essay on Criticism - Part I only(2509) | |
| Wed. | Sept. 25 | Wit & Satire: The Heroic Couplet | Pope: Rape of the Lock (all) | Quiz 2 |
| Fri. | Sept. 27 | Samuel Johnson | "Vanity of Human Wishes" (all, p.2662), Idler No. 31 (2677) | |
| Mon. | Sept. 30 | Samuel Johnson | Intro to the Dictionary 2719-2725 & Rasselas Ch. 1-15 | |
| Wed. | Oct. 2 | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas Ch. 16-35 | |
| Fri. | Oct. 4 | Samuel Johnson | Rasselas Ch. 36-End | |
| Mon. | Oct. 7 | Jomes Boswell | Life of: pp. 2752-2754; A Memorable Year: 2762 2765 /Goldsmith, etc. 2765-2770/ | |
| Wed. | Oct. 9 | The Ode, Nostalgia, and Ceremony | Gray: "Favorite Cat" 2829/Elegy 2830 | |
| Fri. | Oct. 11 | Break | Break | |
| Mon. | Oct. 14 | The Ode, Nostalgia, and Ceremony | Goldsmith: Deserted Village - 2858 All; Cowper: Crazy Kate (2877)" Robbie Burns | |
| Wed. | Oct. 16 | Ballads Revived | Barbauld:"Rights"/"Invisible"/Washing Day" | Paper 1 Due |
| Fri. | Oct. 18 | Politics- Women | Wollstonecraft: "Rights of Woman" 166-192 (all)/ Burke: "Reflections" 121 - & Paine 133 | |
| Mon. | Oct. 21 | The Wollstonecraft-Godwin Connection | Lyrical Ballads: Preface (all) & "Simon Lee"/"We are Seven"/"Expostulation"/"Tables"/ WW: "Ode: Intimations" (287 ff) | Quiz 3 |
| Wed. | Oct. 23 | Wordsworth & Coleridge | "Tintern Abbey" (all) | |
| Fri. | Oct. 25 | Wordsworth & Coleridge | Coleridge"Eolian"/"Kubla Khan"/"Rime" | |
| Mon. | Oct. 28 | The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | "The Rime" (all) | |
| Wed. | Oct. 30 | Debased & Debauched? | DeQuincey: "Confessions" 530-536/Byron: "Swimming"/"She Walks"/"So We'll Go" | |
| Mon. | Nov. 11 | Childe Harold & Don Juan | Byron: "Childe"/"Don Juan"-561-569 & Stanza 113-118 | |
| Wed. | Nov. 13 | Percy Shelley: Philosopher, Atheist, & Agitator | "Mutability"/"Ozymandias"/"England in 1819" | |
| Fri. | Nov. 15 | Percy Shelley: Philosopher, Atheist, & Agitator | "Mutability"/"Ozymandias"/"England in 1819" | |
| Mon. | Nov. 18 | Percy Shelley: Philosopher, Atheist, & Agitator | "Mont Blanc"/"Hymn to Intellectual" | |
| Wed. | Nov. 20 | Keats and Inner Beauty | Shelley: "To a Skylark" - Keats: "Chapman's Homer"/"Grecian Urn"/"When I have Fears"/ Letters (pp. 896;900;901) | |
| Fri. | Nov. 22 | Tennyson | "The Kraken," "Ulysses," "Tithonus," "Break, Break Break," In Memoriam (Stanza 48-59; pp. 1249-1252) | |
| Mon. | Nov. 25 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning & Robert Browning | Sonnets (1179-1180) "My Last Duchess," "Spanish Cloister" | |
| Wed. | Nov. 27 | No Class | No Class | |
| Thurs. | Nov. 28 | T H A N K S G I V I N G | ||
| Fri. | Nov. 29 | |||
| Mon. | Dec. 2 | Arnold | "Dover Beach," (1492) "Sweetness and Light," (1529), "literature and Science" (1545-1550) | Quiz 4 & Take Home Due |
| Wed. | Dec. 4 | Review | . | |
| Fri. | Dec. 6 | Review | . | Paper 2 Due |
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