Tuesday, August 31:
Introduction: Expectations, What is Poetry? What is its Subject Matter?(Handout, p.8).

Thursday, September 2:
Oral Interpretation; How to Read: Handout, p.2 and ?may I feel said he?(676) and ?anyone lived in a pretty how town?(677).

Tuesday, September 7:
Form: Shakespeare:sonnet(32-33, 165-174); Ashbery:sestina: ?Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape?(Handout, p. 14); and Haiku(Handout, p. 7).

Thursday, September 9:
Simplicity and Complexity: ?Ars Brevis?(Handout,  p.2); Stein: ?A Petticoat?(30); Donne: ?Song?(191), ?The Canonization?(196), ?The Flea?(199), and ?Love?s Alchemy?(Handout, p. 3); and Marvell: ?To His Coy Mistress?(256) and ?The Garden?(257).

Tuesday, September 14:
Pope: (268-271), from ?Essay on Criticism,? lines 241-264(277), from ?The Rape of the Lock,? canto I(280-284), and from ?Essay on Man,? lines 1-16(301-302) and lines 1-14(45-46).

Thursday, September 16:
Paired Poems: Paper #1: Compare and contrast Wordsworth?s ?I wandered lonely as a cloud? and Heffernan?s ?Daffodils?(both in Handout, p. 4).  Also read for class ?Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802"(Handout, top center of  p. 3) and Blake: ?London?(320), ?The Sick Rose?(74), and ?Eternity?(Handout, p.4).

Tuesday, September 21:
Wordsworth: (328-330), ?Lines?(330), ?She dwelt among the untrodden ways?(335), ?A slumber did my spirit seal?(336), and ?My heart leaps up?(336).

Thursday, September 23:
Coleridge: ?Kubla Khan?(350).
Shelley: (357-363).
 

 Tuesday, September 28:
Keats(1): (363-369) and Ashbery: ?Around the Rough and Rugged Rocks the Ragged Rascal Rudely Ran?(Handout, p.14).

Thursday, September 30:
Keats(2): (370-375).

Tuesday, October 5:
Tennyson: (385-387), ?Ulysses?(395), ?Tears, idle tears?(399), and ?Crossing the Bar?(403).
Browning: (404-406), ?My Last Duchess?(406) and ?Porphyria?s Lover?(408).

Thursday, October 7:
What are the relationships between Baudelaire?s ?Correspondences?(1074) and Rimbaud?s ?The Drunken Boat?(1076)?

Tuesday, October 12:
Hopkins: (481-486), ?Spring and Fall?(495), ?Brinsey Poplars?(495), ?In the Valley of the Elwy?(50-52), and ?Spelt from Sibyl?s Leaves?(Handout, top right, p. 3).
Thomas: (733-744).

Thursday, October 14:
NOTEBOOK due for midterm grading, to be returned on October 21 so that you can resume  notetaking for the Tuesday, October 26 class on Yeats.
Whitman:(16, 424-446, 451-457, and Handout, p. 3).
Dickinson: (8, 461-475).

FALL BREAK(10/15-10/18)

Thursday, October 21:
Frost: (4, 36, 531-554).

Tuesday, October 26:
Yeats(1): (501-511).

Thursday, October 28:
Yeats(2): (511-524).

Tuesday, November 2:
Eliot: (639-647, 650-664).

Thursday, November 4:
Stevens: (555-573) and Handout, p. 10.
 
 

 Tuesday, November 9:
Williams: (34, 573-597) and ?The Yachts,? ?To a Solitary Disciple,? ?Arrival,? and ?The Ivy Crown?(all on Handout, p. 9).

Thursday, November 11:
Paired Poets: Paper #2: Compare and contrast the poetry of Moore and Bishop explaining why you prefer one to the other.
Moore: (627-638).
Bishop: (26, 62, 714-728).

Tuesday, November 16:
Ginsberg:(776-777) and ?Howl?(Poetry Handout #2).
Waldman: class tape: ?Fast Talking Woman,? no preparation.

Thursday, November 18:
Wilbur: (759) and Handout, p. 12.

Tuesday, November 23:
NOTEBOOK DUE.
Ashbery: (791-792) and Handout, pp.13-14.

THANKSGIVING(11/25-11/28)

Tuesday, November 30:
Love Poetry(1): ?Valentine?(Handout, middle of p. 2), ?O My Love the Pretty Towns?(Handout, p. 2), ?Preludes for Memnon,? ?23rd Street Runs into Heaven,? ?And what with the blunders,? ?The Science of the Night,? and ?Choice?(all on Handout p.5).

Thursday, December 2:
Love Poetry(2): ?The Cows at Night?(Handout, p. 6), ?Us?(795), ?Love on the Farm?(597), ?Love Song: I and Thou?(766), ?Floating?(701), and ?In Bertram?s Garden?(771).

Tuesday, December 7:
Celebration: Men at Forty?(772), ?Starlight?(794), ?Meditation at Lagunitas?(871), ?Prologue?(Handout, p. 15), ?The Shield of Achilles?(706), ?Hawk Roosting?(819), ?Stone?(849), and ?A Blessing?(793).

Thursday, December 9:
Evaluations and Overview.
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Written Assignments:

 Notebook: The purpose of your notebook is to generate questions and opinions for classroom discussion of poems in your daily asssignments.  Except for the two class meetings when papers are due(9/16 and 11/11) and the midterm evaluation of your notebook(10/21 assignment when I have your notebook), you are to have three pages of notes for each assignment running from 9/2 through 11/23 or 20 assignments and 60 pages.  These notes are to be taken BEFORE class and are to be on the LEFT HAND PAGES OF YOUR NOTEBOOK; reserve the right hand pages for class notes or afterthoughts.  You may be called upon in class to read from your notes for that class meeting.  What kind of content should your notes include?  (1) Review your whole assignment quickly to see what you like most. (2) Decide what portion of it you would most like to read out loud(interpret orally). (3) Refer to pages 19 and 20 of Guide for the Study of Literature handout.  Remember that questions are usually more valuable than answers.  Organize your notes so that you can respond without delay in class when called upon.

Paired Poems and/or Poets Papers: 2 two-page papers are due(on 9/16 and 11/11).  See assignments on those dates for topics.  Your papers must be turned in at the beginning of class on the due dates because we will discuss the topics during class.

Final Examination: The three-hour final will have two parts: (1) a closed-book portion worth one-sixth of the exam?s grade and (2) an open-book, essay portion worth five-sixths of the exam?s grade.  Both parts of the final exam will cover assignments from the entire semester including your papers and notebook.

Course Policies:

Attendance: You are permitted two cuts(the equivalent of one week of classes); reserve them for illness, emergencies, and deaths in the immediate family.  ONE POINT FOR EACH CUT AFTER THE SECOND ONE WILL BE SUBTRACTED FROM YOUR FINAL GRADE.

Classroom Grade: Your classroom grade will be based on unannounced quizzes, your notebook responses in class, and general classroom discussion.

Final Grade: 2 poem-papers(one part), Notebook(three parts), Final Exam(three parts), and Classroom Grade(two to four parts) for a total of nine to eleven parts to be averaged for your final grade.

Academic Integrity: All of your written work in this course is to be YOUR OWN; do not consult your classmates or any secondary sources for your poem papers or your notebook entries.  Evidence of plagiarism or academic dishonesty will result in an ?F? in the course.  For information on what constitutes plagiarism consult the publication Academic Integrity at Elizabethtown College.  If you have any confusion about these matters, consult you instructor.

For each assigment you should be spending at least two hours outside of class for every hour spent inside class, or NO LESS THAN SIX HOURS A WEEK--THIS TIME DOES NOT INCLUDE TIME SPENT ON PAPERS. Since most of the readings in this course are short poems, you might finish a first reading of the assignment in a short period of time; DO REREADING AND THINKING ABOUT THE ASSIGNMENT AND YOUR NOTES.
 
 

Monday, August 30: Introduction to the Course, pp. 1-18.
(a. What labels have been applied to 18th Century England, and in what ways have they been misleading?  b. What two ideas presented in the introduction seem most interesting from the vantage point of organizing the literature of the period?  c. What common subjects and goals did the writers of the second half of the century have with the writers of the first half?)

Wednesday, September 1: Background for Neo-Classicism:
Handout: Guide for the Study of Literature, pp. 13-15.
Complete Friday's assignment(on the Introduction, pp. 1-18).
Notes on Research.

Friday, September 3: The Restoration:
Rochester, Verse(1680), pp. 31-38.
Lecture on John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.
(a. What variety and functions exist in the verse forms of Rochester?  b. What is remarkable about Rochester's diction and imagery?)
Further Notes on Research.

Wednesday, September 8: Swift's Tale of a Tub(1):
Selections from "Tale of a Tub"(1710), pp. 286-97, 326-36, 352-62.
(a. Describe the stylistic qualities of "Tale of a Tub."  b. What is Swift satirizing?  c. Why were the last two selections chosen?)
 Friday, September 10: Tale of a Tub(2):
"The Battle of the Books," pp. 367-90.
(a. What makes the allegory of this work distinctive?  b. Discuss the spider-bee passage and its relevance to the battle of the ancients and the moderns.)

Monday, September 13: Swift's Minor Prose:
CHOICE OF RESEARCH AREA.
A Meditation Upon a Broom-stick(1710), pp. 404-5.
From the Bickerstaff Papers(1707-9), pp. 405-415.
An Argument Against the Abolishing of Christianity(1708), pp. 418- 25.
A Modest Proposal(1729), 447-51.
(Define irony as it is employed in the various works of this assignment.)

Wednesday, September 15: Defoe and the Rise of the Novel:
Defoe:The Shortest Way with Dissenters(1702), pp. 234-42.
Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year(1722), pp. 242-61.
(a. Compare and contrast Defoe's "Shortest Way" with Swift's "Argument " and "Modest Proposal."  b. How can you tell whether Defoe's Journal is fiction or fact(history?)?)

Friday, September 17: Tristram Shandy, Books I and II(1760), pp.  1-116.
(In every Tristram assignment come to class with a favorite passage.)

Monday, September 20: Pope and Pastorals:
Discourse on Pastoral Poetry(1717), reserve.
Winter. The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne(1709), pp. 552-3.
Guardian #40(1713), reserve.
(a. What characteristic of the pastoral do you think Pope valued most?  b. Explain the strategy of Pope's satire in Guardian #40.)

Wednesday, September 22: The Ode: Dryden and Pope:
Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia's Day(1687), pp. 167-8.
Dryden: Alexander's Feast(1697), pp. 169-71.
Pope: Ode on Solitude(1717), p. 554.
(a. What differentiates Dryden's St. Cecilia's Day Odes from each other?  b. Discuss Pope's Ode on Solitude as a unique work which defies classification.)
 
 

 Friday, September 24: The Ode: Collins and Gray:
Collins: Odes Written 1746 and 1756, pp. 918-27.
Gray: Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College(1742), pp. 940-1.
Gray: The Progress of Poesy, a Pindaric Ode(1757), pp. 945-7.
(a. What are the differences between a Horation and a Pindaric Ode?  b. How can one ever become interested in the Collins' Odes on abstractions?)

Monday, September 27: Nature in Verse:
Denham: Cooper's Hill(1655), pp. 784-9.
Pope: Windsor Forest(1713), pp. 580-7.
The Spectator: #418(1712), pp. 346-8.
Thomson: The Seasons(1726-44), pp. 712-25.
(a. How do the treatments of nature by Denham and Pope differ?  b. Is Thomson's treatment of nature a step towards Romanticism?  c. How does Pope unify "Windsor Forest"?)

Wednesday,September 29: Lyrics: Dryden,Prior,and Cowper:
Dryden: Songs(1670, 71, 79), pp. 79-80, 85-6, 133.
Prior: Poems written and published 1718-42, pp. 223-30.
Cowper: pp. 1326-28.
(What is a lyric? What evidence within the poems would indicate that Prior's are from the early 18th Century and Cowper's from the late 18th Century?)

Friday, October 1: Lyrics: Burns and Blake:
SUBMIT NARROWED TOPIC FOR RESEARCH PAPER FOR APPROVAL.
Burns: Songs(1786), pp. 1483-9.
Blake: Songs(1789, 93, 94), pp. 1494-6, 1503-6.
(If one were trying to define Romanticism on the evidence in today's assignment, what qualities would be clearly non-neoclassical, and what contradictions would arise between these qualities?)

Monday, October 4: The Elegiac Tradition: Dryden and Swift:
Dryden: To the Memory of Mr. Oldham(1684), pp. 163-4.
Dryden: To the Pious Memory of...Mrs, Anne Killegrew(1685), pp.          164-7.
Swift: A Satiric Elegy...(1722), p. 375.
(a. What is the primary purpose of an elegy?  b. Which poem in today's assignment most thoroughly fulfills that purpose?)
 
 
 

 Wednesday, October 6: The Elegiac Tradition: Gray and Johnson:
Gray: Sonnet on the Death of Mr. West(1742), pp. 941-2.
Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard(1751), pp. 943-5.
Johnson: On the Death of Dr. Robert Levit(1783), pp. 979-80.
(a. use the same questions from the previous assignment.)

Friday, October 8: Criticism in Verse: Pope and Swift:
Pope: An Essay on Criticism(1711), pp. 554-64.
Pope: Preface to the Works(1717), pp. 606-9.
Swift: On Poetry: A Rapsody(1733), pp.393-400.
(a. To what extent does Pope practice what he preaches in his Essay on Criticism? b. List the differences between Pope?s Essay on Criticism and Swift?s Rapsody.)

Monday, October 11: Criticism: Literary Terms:
Wit: The Spectator: #58, 61, 62(1711), pp. 311-8.
     Johnson: Lives: Cowley(1779), pp. 1076-8.
Genius: The Spectator: #160(1711), pp. 325-6.
Taste: The Spectator: #409(1712), pp. 332-4.
Imagination: The Spectator: #411, 412, 413(1712), pp. 334-9.
Young: Conjectures on Original Composition(1759), pp. 871-9.
(a. What do you learn about the early 18th Century by reading what the Spectator has to say about literary terms?  b. How does the essay by Young differ from the Spectator papers?)

Wednesday, October 13: MIDTERM EXAMINATION.

FALL BREAK(10/15-10/18)

Tuesday, October 19: The Periodic Essay:
The Tatler: #1(1709), 163(1710), 217(1710), pp.295-300, 302-4.
The Spectator: #12(1711), 105(1711), 317(1712), 417(1712), pp. 307-       10, 321-2, 330-2, 344-6.
(Make a list of the topics treated in the essays.)

Wednesday, Ocober 20: Tristram Shandy, Books III and IV(1761), pp.       117-256.

Friday, October 22: The Epic and Satire: Dryden and Swift:
Dryden: MacFlecknoe(1678), pp. 147-50.
Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel(1681), pp. 134-146.
Swift: A Description of the Morning(1709), p. 360.
Swift: A Description of a City Shower(1710), p. 360.
Swift: The Day of Judgement(1734), p. 389.
 (a. What makes MacFlecknoe so different from Absalom and Achitophel?  b. Of the three Swift poems, which one do you prefer and why?)

Monday, October 25: The Epic and Satire: Pope:
The Rape of the Lock(1714), pp. 567-78.
(What motifs unify The Rape of the Lock?)

Wednesday, October 27: The Epic and Satire: Gray:
Notes on Research Documentation.
Ode on the Death of a Favorite Cat(1747), p. 942.
(What qualities do you find held in common by Gray's poem and The Rape of the Lock?)

Friday, October 29: Love and Studies:
Swift: Cadenus and Vanessa(1713), pp. 361-72.
Pope: Eloisa to Abelard(1717), pp. 601-6.
Swift: Stella's Birthday(1726-27), pp. 376-7.
(What are the outstanding differences between Pope and Swift's treatments of today's topic in Eloise and Cadenus?  b. What can we learn about Swift's poetry from his poem on Stella's Birthday?)

Monday, November 1: Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Books I and  II(1726), pp. 3-116.
(For each book in Gulliver's Travels you are to prepare one challenging question with speculations about its answer.)

Wednesday, November 3: Gulliver's Travels, Book III, pp. 119-175.

Friday, November 5: Gulliver's Travels, Book IV, pp. 177-243.

Monday, November 8: Philosophy and Satire in Verse(1):
ROUGH DRAFT OF RESEACH PAPER DUE(3 copies).
Pope: Essay on Man(1733-34), pp. 635-51.
(a. Does the ordering of materials in Pope's poem make logical sense?  b. How does Pope's use of heroic couplets differ from his use of them in his Essay on Criticism?)
 

Wednesday, November 10: Philosophy and Satire in Verse(2):
Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes(1749), pp. 973-8.
(a. What is satire as a verse form?  b. What differences in tone are there between Johnson's Vanity and Pope's Essay?)

Friday, November 12: PEER REVIEW OF RESEARCH PAPER.
Information about Research.
 Monday, November 15: Fielding's Concept of the Ridiculous:
Fielding: Preface to Joseph Andrews(1742), pp. 756-60.
Tristram Shandy, Books V and VI(1762), pp. 257-361.
(Apply Fielding's "Preface" to Gulliver's Travels and Sterne's Tristram Shandy(the first six volumes).)

Wednesday, November 17: The Drama(1):
Goldsmith: Essay on Sentimental Comedy(1773), pp. 1258-9.
Gay: The Beggar's Opera(1728), pp. 518-49.
Swift: The Intelligencer(1732), pp. 444-6.
(a. What are the incongruous elements in Gay's play?  b. Is Macheath an admirable character?  c. What Christian and what pastoral elements are in Gay's play?)

Friday, November 19: The Drama(2):
Fielding: The Tragedy of Tragedies(1731), pp. 728-56.
(a. What parallels exist between Hamlet and this play?  b. Explain the trick Fielding plays about the origin of the play.  c. What functions do the footnotes play?)

Monday, November 22: On Women:
Pope: Moral Essay: Of the Characters of Women(1735), pp. 652-6.
Swift: The Progress of Beauty(1719), pp. 372-4.
(Contrast Swift's and Pope's satiric treatment of women.)

Wednesday, November 24: Gardens and the English Temperament:
FINAL DRAFT OF THE RESEARCH PAPER DUE.
The Tatler: #169(1710), pp. 300-2.
The Spectator: #414(1712), pp. 339-40.
Pope: Moral Essay, Of the Use of Riches; Epistle to  Burlington(1731), pp. 656-60. 
Shenstone: Unconnected Thoughts on Gardening(1764-9), pp. 908-10.
Goldsmith: Citizen of the World: #iv(1760), pp. 1245-6.
(What role did gardens play for the 18th Century gentleman according to Pope?)

THANKSGIVING(11/25-11/28)

Monday, November 29: The Country Scene:
Goldsmith: The Deserted Village(1776), pp. 1252-7.
Crabbe: The Village(1783), pp. 1423-30.
(How do the changes in the treatment of rural life reflect the changes taking place in poetry during the 18th Century in preparation for the 19th Century's Romanticism?)

 Wednesday, December 1: Pope's Apology:
Pope: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot(1735), pp. 660-6.
(How does Pope unify his poem?)

Friday, December 3: Swift's Apology:
NOTEBOOK DUE.
Swift: Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift(1731), pp. 381-9.
(Who writes the more effective apology, Pope or Swift? Explain.)

Monday, December 6: The End of Pope:
Pope: The Dunciad(1729-43), pp. 682-702.
(What makes the Dunciad a fitting end for the study of verse in this course?)

Wednesday, December 8: Tristram Shandy, Books VII, VIII(1765), and  IX(1767), pp. 362-496.

Friday, December 10: The Eccentric and Eccentricities:
Cowper: The Task(1785),pp. 1316-26.
Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell(1790), pp. 1496-1503.
(What makes the work of Cowper and Blake in this assignment unlike most of the neo-classical works you have read this semester?  What do they have in common with Tristram Shandy?)
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                   WRITING ASSIGNMENTS

 RESEARCH PAPER--A typewritten, double-spaced, eight to ten page research paper is due Wednesday, November 24.  On Monday, September 13 you will select your subject area(from the list below) according to the number you draw out of a hat the first class meeting.  On Friday, October 1 you are to submit a narrowed topic for approval.  On Monday, November 8 you are to bring three copies of a rough draft to pass out to other members of your peer group.  They will return the copies with a one-page critique for each on Friday, November 12.  See the last page of this syllabus for directions for the critiques.  The final draft of the paper is due Wednesday, November 24.  Please attach the student critiques to a copy of your first draft, and turn them in also on the 24th.  The critiques will be graded and become a part of the classroom grades of their authors.  NO LATE PAPERS WILL BE ACCEPTED; YOU WILL RECEIVE A GRADE OF "O" IF THE PAPER IS NOT TURNED IN AT THE BEGINNING OF CLASS ON THE DUE DATE.  You are to use the MLA style documentation as described in the Harbrace College Handbook.  Deficiencies in organization or expression may result in the loss of up to twenty points in the grade awarded your final drafted paper.  See Academic Integrity below for further information.

Areas for Research:
1.  Rochester's Verse
2.  Swift's "A Tale of a Tub"
3.  Swift's "The Battle of the Books"(and/or "A Discourse    Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit")
4.  Swift's "Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift"
5.  Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Book I
6.  Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Book II
7.  Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Book III
8.  Swift's Gulliver's Travels, Book IV
9.  Swift's Verse on Women
    10.  Swift's "Cadenus and Vanessa" 
    11.  Pastorals
    12.  Odes
    13.  Lyrics
    14.  Elegies
    15.  Pope's "Essay on Criticism"
    16.  Pope's "The Rape of the Lock"
    17.  Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard"
    18.  Pope's "Essay on Man"
    19.  Pope's "Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot"
    20.  Pope's The Dunciad
    21.  Dryden's Satires
    22.  Johnson's "Vanity of Human Wishes"
    23.  Gay's Beggar's Opera
    24.  Fielding's Tragedy of Tragedies
    25.  The Periodic Essay(The Tatler and The Spectator Papers)
    26.  Nature in Poetry(Denham, Pope, and Thomson)
    27.  Country Life in Verse(Goldsmith and Crabbe)
    28.  Gardening in 18th Century Literature
    29.  Madness in Literature(Chatterton, Smart, and Cowper)
    30.  Tristram Shandy: Characterization
    31.  Tristram Shandy: Humor
    32.  Tristram Shandy: Time
    33.  Bernard Mandeville and the Earl of Shaftesbury
    34.  John Locke
    35.  David Hume
    36.  Edward Gibbon:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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 NOTEBOOK--You are to address one of the topics or questions listed after each reading assignment in one page of notes for a Notebook to be submitted Friday, December 3 at the beginning of class.  Late submissions will not be accepted, and the grade will be a "0."
----------------------------------------------------------------- Course Policies:

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: PLAGIARISM--Students are encouraged to consult secondary or outside sources only AFTER they have formed their own opinions about the assigned readings.  This means that you read the primary sources for your research paper before you start gathering information from secondary sources.  A student's unacknowledged use of secondary sources of criticism or of content received in peer evaluations will result in an immediate "F" in the course, not just for the assignment.  Ignorance is neither an excuse nor a defense.  Do your own work, and document the contributions of others.  If you have any problems about it, COME TO YOUR INSTRUCTOR WITH THEM.  You are responsible for the contents of Academic Integrity at Elizabethtown College as well as the relevant sections of the Student Handbook.
-----------------------------------------------------------------CLASS ATTENDANCE--you are permitted three cuts before your classroom grade is penalized.  Save your cuts for occasions of illness; I will accept no medical excuses for your first three cuts.  You will have three points subtracted from your classroom grade for each cut in excess of your first three in the course.
FINAL GRADE--your final grade will be composed of your grade for your research paper(two parts), your notebook(two parts), your midterm(one part), your final exam(three parts), and your classroom grade(three to five parts, the factor to be determined by the instructor) or a total of eleven to thirteen parts to be averaged.  The Midterm will be entirely open-book, and the Final Exam will have a closed-book(one-sixth) and an open-book(five-sixths) sections.  The Final Exam will be comprehensive.

 COURSE OBJECTIVES--there are two kinds of course objectives: those peculiar to this course and those from my introductory courses, which are to be reinforced.  Those peculiar to this course are: (1) to recreate the "spirit of the age"(a unified and coherent picture through the literature of a given period of time:1660-1800), (2) to present a sufficient number of contradictory elements from the period to prevent blind belief in the "spirit of the age," (3) to demonstrate the uses of the past in the present, of the 18th century view of life for the late 20th century reader, and (4) to demonstrate especially through the works of Alexander Pope, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels how the works of one author or indeed a single work can be a microcosm of an age.  The objectives from my introductory courses and which are to be reinforced are: (1) to make students more aware of the nature and potential of language, (2) to train students to function on abstract as well as on concrete levels of thought and to be able to move back and forth at will, (3) to familiarize students with the jargon, theories, and methodologies of literary criticism, (4) to focus on the qualities of literature(such as metaphor and form) which distinguish its study from the other disciplines at the College, (5) to expose students to a given body of literature, and (6) to promote excellence in student written and oral expression.
-----------------------------------------------------------------ASSIGNMENTS ON RESERVE--

For the Monday, September 20 class meeting, there are two items to be read in the library.  They are listed below with the names of the books in which they may be found. 

Discourse on Pastoral Poetry--to be found in Pope. Poetical   Works, Oxford U.P. (pp. 9-13) and The Complete Poetical            Works of Alexander Pope. Cambridge Edition(pp. 19-21).
Guardian #40--to be found in Literary Criticism of Alexander   Pope. U. of Nebraska Press, pp. 98-104. and The Works of   Alexander Pope. Vol. X. Gordian Press, pp. 507-514.

Monday, August 30:
Assignment of Reports and Responses
Discussion: Adams: Preface, Introduction(1-9), Plato Intro(11), and                    Aristotle(49-66)
            Selden: Introduction(1-8)

Friday, September 3:
Wellek and Warren(7-28)
Report #1: Adams: Horace(67-74)
Report #2: Adams: Longinus(75-98)

Friday, September 10:
WW(29-53)
Report #3: Adams: Sidney(142-162)
Report #4: Adams: Dryden and Johnson(213-240, 316-327)

Monday, September 13:
WW(57-80)
Report #5: Adams: Wordsworth(436-446)
Report #6: Adams: Coleridge and Keats(468-480, 492-494)

Friday, September 17:
WW(81-109)
Report #7: Adams: Shelley(515-529)
Report #8: Adams: Arnold(585-607)

Monday, September 20:
WW(110-135)
Report #9: Adams: Emerson(557-529)
Report #10: Adams: Poe(574-584)
 Friday, September 24:
WW(139-157)
Report #11: Adams: Kant(374-393)
Report #12: Adams: Hegel(533-545)

Monday, September 27:
WW(158-173)
Report #13: Adams: Taine and Zola(608-620, 644-655)
Report #14: Adams: Bahktin(838-855)

Friday, October 1:
WW(174-185)
Report #15: Adams: Nietzsche(628-639)
Report #16: Adams: Pater(640-643)

Monday, October 4:
WW(186-211)
Report #17: Adams: France and Wilde(656-670)
Report #18: Adams: Mallarme(671-678)

Friday, October 8:
WW(212-225)
Report #19: Adams: Marx and Freud(624-627, 711-716)
Report #20: Adams: Jung(783-791)

Monday, October 11:
Selden(70-90)
Report #21: Adams: Saussure and Jakobson(717-726)
Report #22: Adams: Tolstoy(679-690)
Course Review(discussion on improving the course)

FALL BREAK(October 15-18)

Tuesday, October 19:
Selden(27-44)
Report #23: Adams: Shklovsky and Mukarovsky(750-759, 975-982)
Report #24: Adams: Eichenbaum(800-816)

Friday, October 22:
Selden(10-18)
Report #25: Adams: Eliot and Richards(760-766, 826-837)
Report #26: Adams: Wimsatt and Beardsley(944-959)
 
 

 Monday, October 25:
Selden(18-24)
Report #27: Adams: Blackmur and Burke(884-896, 920-924)
Report #28: Adams: Brooks(960-974)

Friday, October 29:
WW(226-237)
Report #29: Adams: Frye(1045-1057)
Report #30: Adams: Frye(1057-1072)

Monday, November 1:
WW(238-251)
Report #31: Handout: Wittgenstein(766-772col1, sections 1-22)
Report #32: Handout: Wittgenstein(772col1-777, sections 23-57)
      (Selections from Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations         from Adams and Searle's Critical Theory Since 1965) 
Friday, November 5:
WW(252-269)
Report #32: Handout: Wittgenstein(777col2-781col2, sections 65-500)
Report #33: Handout: Wittgenstein(781col2-788)

Monday, November 8:
Selden(103-122)
Report #34: Handout: Austin(832-838)
Report #35: Handout: Searle(59-69)
       (Selections from Adams and Searle?s Critical Theory Since               1965) 

Friday, November 12:
Selden(125-149)
Report #36: Adams: Derrida(1116-1126)

Monday, November 15:
Selden(149-169)
Report #37: Adams: de Mann(1174-1182)
Report #38: Adams: Bloom(1183-1189)

Friday, November 19:
Selden(46-67)
Report #39: Adams: Barthes and Poulet(1127-1133, 1146-1154)
Report #40: Adams: Fish(1199-1209)
 
 

 Monday, November 22:
Selden(203-221)
Report #41: Adams: Woolf(817-825)
Report #42: Adams: Showalter(1223-1233)

Wednesday, November 24:
Selden(222-232, 91-99)
Report #43: Adams: Gilbert and Gubar(1234-1244)
Report #44: Handout: Eagleton's "Conclusion: Political Criticism"                from Literary Theory: An Introduction, pp. 194-217.

Thanksgiving(11/25-11/28)

Monday, November 29:
Selden(174-197)
Report #45: Adams: Adorno(Intro 1032) and Foucault(1134-1145)
Report #46: Adams: Said(1210-1222)

Between now and the final examination you are to read Mark Turner's "Professing English in the Age of Cognitive Science," "User's Manual," and "Floor Plan" chapters in his Reading Minds: The Study of English in the Age of Cognitive Science, pp.3-50(on reserve).  There will be a question on these readings on the take-home final.
ALSO beginning with the next class meeting there will be personal reports by individual students.  See instructions after the listing of daily assignments.
 

Friday, December 3:
Discussion: Handout: Charles Bernstein, ?Optimism and Critical         Excess(Process)?
Personal Report by Student #1

Monday, December 6:
Personal Reports by Students #2 and #3

Friday, December 10:
Personal Reports by Students #4 and #5
_________________________________________________________________FINAL EXAMINATION--Comprehensive take-home, due at my Wenger Center office no later than 11:00 a.m. Monday, December 13.
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QUIZZES--A minimum of eight quizzes on the thirteen WW assignments to be given at the beginning of class, no make-ups.
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 PERSONAL REPORT--Beginning on Friday, December 3, there will be individual student personal reports, each presenting in fifteen minutes the student's personal theoretical base established during this course.  In other words, the report will address the questions: what critical theory or theories seem most important to you in your study of literature, and what are their interrelationships?  Immediately before each personnal report every member of the class and the instructor are to receive a one-page summary of the content of the report which is to follow. Since there will usually be two such reports per class meeting, there will only be roughly twenty minutes for discussion of each report.

REGULAR REPORTS--Assigning of reports will be determined from a hat-drawing the first class meeting.  There are forty-six reports scheduled(not counting the personal reports).  Each of the regular reports is to be fifteen minutes in length and to be delivered from notes, not an MS prepared ahead of time.  Suggestions for the content of the regular reports: (1) from a quick reading of the text in Adams or in the Handout ascertain the key critical issues in terms of the priorities for the author(s), (2) organize those issues in terms of the priorities for the author and for yourself(if your priorities are different from what appear to be those of the author(s)), (3) briefly comment on the accuracy of the prefatory note by Adams, (4) briefly locate the selection(s) within the constellation of Meyer Abrams' classification of approaches to art(to be found in Adams' Introduction), (5) either concentrate upon one concept treated in the selection(s) and pursue its implications if made a keystone in a critical theory or discuss the ties between the critical theories espoused by the author(s), and (6) try to anticipate the objections that could be made to the assertions of the critic(s) being studied.  If your report includes two critics, you may treat them either in isolation or bring out the parallels and contrasts between them.  Remember that during your fifteen minutes YOU ARE THE TEACHER; THE SUGGESTIONS LISTED ABOVE MAY BE DISREGARDED IF YOU FEEL SOME OTHER APPROACH IS BETTER. 
DIRECTIONS FOR THE RESPONSES TO THE REGULAR REPORTS--for each of the regular reports, each student not reporting will formulate one question to pose after the report has been given.  The questions are to be addressed to the whole class, not just the student presenting the report.
 
 
 

 CLASS ATTENDANCE--no more than two class absences are permitted; reserve them for illnesses; no excuses will be accepted for the first two cuts.  For every absence beyond the second one YOU WILL HAVE THREE POINTS SUBTRACTED FROM YOUR CLASSROOM GRADE.  Your classmates deserve your attention and support in whatever discussion time permits.
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COMPUTATION OF YOUR FINAL GRADE:
          WW Quizzes--10%
          Regular Reports and Responses--40% to 35%
          Personal Report--10%
          Final Exam--20%
          Classroom Discussion--20% to 25%
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ACADEMIC INTEGRITY--Matters of plagiarism and academic dishonesty will be discussed the first class meeting.  You are to consider yourself responsible for the contents of Academic Integrity at Elizabethtown College and the relevant sections of the Student Handbook.  If you have any questions about these matters, raise them with your instructor at any time, in or out of class.  EVIDENCE OF PLAGIARISM OR ACADEMIC DISHONESTY WILL RESULT IN AN AUTOMATIC "F" IN THE COURSE.