ENGLISH 201-004
MAJOR BRITISH AUTHORS
Instructor: Dr. Bruce R. Magee
Spring Quarter 2001-2002

English 201-051 
Room: GTM 207 
Time: 6:00-7:50 TTh		 Home Page: 
http://garts.latech.edu/bmagee

E-mail: 

bmagee@LaTech.Edu 

 
Office: GTM 222 
Phone: 257-3033 
Hours: 8:00-10:00 M-F 
or by appointment

English Department Home Page

Tech SREC (Southern Regional Electronic Campus) Page

This course is designed to introduce the most important British writers from the Medieval Period to the present. Given this scope, the course can provide only a limited study of any writer. Daily assignments are given on the syllabus so that you will know what is expected for each class. Follow the syllabus closely; read each assignment before coming to class. There will be three tests. The final will NOT be cumulative.

Textbooks

Attendance Requirements

Because this is a course offered via the World Wide Web, attendance is not a part of your grade. I will schedule times for those of you in Ruston to meet to take the tests.  If you live further away, you will need to work with me in arranging to take the tests under a proctor in your area.
 

English 201 over the Internet: Requirements

We'll be studying British literature.  The readings are mostly the same as in my regular 201 classes.  I'm setting up the assignments as though the class is a T-Th class so people will be able to pace themselves. I'll be posting my notes to my web site before the quarter starts. We'll meet once every 2 weeks to have a quiz over the material covered in that period.  This will help keep everybody doing their work. I'm not sure what day.  We'll get the period that's convenient to the most people & work in the rest maybe at a secondary time.

We'll have one essay exam during the quarter & an outside mini-research paper (These are standard for all the 201 & 202 classes).

If you want to take the class, come by my office (GTM 222) & I'll sign your blue sheet.
 
 
 

GRADES
Daily Quizzes 60%
In-class Essay Exam 15%
Paper 15%
Attendance 10%
Total 100%

The grading scale is A: 90-102%, B: 80-89%, C: 70-79%, D: 60-69%, F:0-59%.
 
 

In the event of a question regarding an exam grade or final grade, it will be the responsibility of the student to retain and present graded materials which have been returned for student possession during the quarter.

 
ASSIGNMENTS
Packet Page
Registration Week: September 7
Period 1

Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon period . 1-21
3 
Beowulf23 (Note: When I just give the first page number, read the entire selection.)
8 
Week 1: September 10-14
Period 1

Finish Beowulf today  
Period 2

Introduction to the Medieval period
16 
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 119
23 
Period 3

Finish Sir Gawain  
Week 2: September 17-21
Period 1

Chaucer "The Wife of Bath's Tale"189, 216-243
28 
"Phyllis and Aristotle" (available only on the web site & in the packet)
31
Period 2

34 
35 
 

40 
Period 3

Watch Richard III  
Week 3: September 24-28
Period 1 

41 
41 
43 

44


 
Period 2

  • Donne "Ecstasy" 612
    • "Valediction" 611 
    • "Death Be Not Proud" 623 
    • "Batter My Heart" 624
  • Herbert "Collar" 663
    • "Easter Wings" 662
    • "Jordon I" 662
    • "Love III" 665
  • Marvell "Coy Mistress" 679
    • "Garden" 683
92 
 
 

96 
 
 

98 
Period 3

Finish watching Richard III  
Week 4: October 1-5
Period 1

  • Ben Jonson 
    • "To My Book" 639 
    • "On My First Daughter" 639
    • "On My First Son" 640
    • "On Giles and Joan" 640
    • "Queen and Huntress" (647)
  • Herrick "To the Virgins" 670 
    • "Corinna's Gone A-Maying" 668 
    • "To His Mistress, Objecting to Him" (www only)
102 
 
 
 
 

103 
Period 2

106 
Period 3

Finish Paradise Lost  
Week 5: October 8-12
Period 1

112 
134 
Period 2
  • Jonathan Swift Gulliver's Travels 969
    • "A Modest Proposal" 1113
  • Pope Rape of the Lock 1134-1153
135A

136 
Period 3

Finish Rape of the Lock
Introduction to The Romantic Period 1313-1335		  

139
Week 6: October 15-19
Period 1

140 
152 
Period 2

  • Research Paper Due Today
  • Blake  
    • Poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience :
      • "The Lamb" 1351 
      • "The Tyger" 1359 
      • "Garden of Love" 1361 
      • "Infant Joy" 1354
      • "Infant Sorrow" 1363 
      • "To Tirzah" 1363
      • "The Divine Image" 1353 
      • "A Divine Image" 1364 
      • "Human Abstract" 1362
    • The Marriage of Heaven and Hell 1377 
2 
162 
Period 3

Finish William Blake discussion  
Week 7: October 22-26
Period 1

  • Byron "She Walks in Beauty" 1640
    • "When We 2 Parted" 1642 
    • "Darkness" 1642 
  • Shelley, P. "Mutability" 1713 
    • "Mont Blanc" 1714 
    • "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" 1717 
    • "Ozymandias" 1719 
  • Keats "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" 1798 
    • "To Homer" 1803
    • "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 1820
167 
 

168 
 
 

170 
Period 2

Essay Exam
1 
Period 3

ColeridgeThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner 1580 
172
Week 8: October  29-November 2
Period 1

  • Wordsworth "We are 7" 1427 
    • "The Tables Turned" 1431 
    • "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" 1432 
    • "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" 1478
    • "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" 1479
    • "The world is too much with us" 1491 
174 
Period 2

176 
177 
179 
Period 3

Finish Tennyson discussion  
Week 9: November 5-9
Period 1

184 
 
 

186 
187 
189 
Period 2

197 
198 
198
Period 3

  • Hopkins "The Windhover" 2159 
    • "Pied Beauty" 2160 
    • "Carrion Comfort" 2163 
205A
Week 10: November 12-15
Period 1

206 

207 
210a 
211 
212 
Period 2

  • Eliot "Hippopotamus" (web site only)
    • "The Waste Land" 2612
    • "Sweeny Among the Nightingales" 2611
    • "Journey of the Magi" 2630
    • "The Hollow Men" 2627
  • Auden "The Shield of Achilles" 2695
  • Homer The Iliad 18. 478-608 (website only)
215 
 
 
 

226 

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