Assignment Syllabus

UNIT ONE ASSIGNMENTS

Beowulf p. 48-78

Seafarer p. 88-92 & Wanderer (handout)

Bede's History p. 98-103 & Folk Ballads p. 108-17

Chaucer's Prologue p.120-44 & Tales p. 147-67

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight p. 172-88

from Morte D'Arthur p. 192-201

Margery Kempe p. 204-08 & from Everyman p. 209-24

UNIT TWO ASSIGNMENTS

Wyatt p. 246-49, Queen Elizabeth p. 250-52, & Sidney p. 268-72

***Edmund Spenser p. 254-59 (plus handout Canto I of Faerie Queen)***

Bacon p. 273-76 & Marlowe/Raleigh p. 278-82

Shakespeare's Poetry p. 284-95

The King James Bible p. 402-08 & Donne p. 414-25

Jonson p. 437-40, Herrick p. 443-45, & Suckling p. 446-49

Lovelace p. 450-53 & Marvell p. 455-58

Milton p. 460-73 & Bunyan p. 476-82

UNIT THREE ASSIGNMENTS

Dryden p. 505-10, Behn p. 512-15, & Pope p. 538-43

Jonathan Swift p. 516-35

Montagu p. 550-56 & Addison/Steele p. 559-65

Pepys p. 572-80, Defoe p. 588-94, & Gray 598-605

Johnson p. 607-15 & Boswell p. 618-26

UNIT FOUR ASSIGNMENTS

Blake p. 662-67, Burns p. 670-75, & Wollstonecraft p. 678-84

William Wordsworth p. 686-96 & Dorothy Wordsworth p. 704-06

Samuel Coleridge p. 709-36

Mary Shelley p. 745-51, Byron p. 759-64, & Percy Shelley p. 766-77

John Keats p. 780-90 (plus handout for "Ode to a Nightengale")