ENG201Y: Second term syllabus
January 8th
[Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), "Kubla Khan" (180)]
[Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), "The City in the Sea" (248)]
John Keats, "La belle dame sans merci" (221)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892), "The Lady of Shalott" (255)
Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), "Goblin Market" (324)
January 15th
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses" (264)
[Robert Browning (1812-1889), "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church" (279)]
TEST #1: Thursday January 18th (10%)
January 22nd
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888), "Dover Beach" (307)
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), "The Darkling Thrush" (343)
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), "Sailing to Byzantium" (401)
January 29th and February 5th
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965), The Waste Land
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/wastland.html
Thursday, February 8th: 9:10 am, Robarts Library, room 4049: Mandatory library tour and exercise
SEMINARS start week of February 12th
February 12th
(hand in drafts Feb 1st)
Tuesday 13th February: John Donne, "The Canonization" (40)
Stella, Kelly, Jen
Thursday 15th February: William Blake, "The Tyger" (157)
Thomas, Antonella
READING WEEK
February 26th
(hand in drafts Feb 13th – note interference with in-class essay on March 1st)
Tuesday 27th February: William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book 2
Rob, Valerie
IN-CLASS ESSAY: Thursday March 1st
Material covered: everything from September through Reading Week.
Format: essay (compare and contrast 3 or 4 poems’ treatments of a particular theme).
Allowable aids: texts of the poems, but don’t let this slow you down.
March 5th
(hand in drafts Feb 15th—note early date!)
Tuesday 6th March: Duncan Campbell Scott (1862-1947), "The Onondaga Madonna" (383) or "The Half-Breed Girl"
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/scottd2.html
Nicole, Nick
Tuesday 6th March: Pauline Johnson (TEKAHIONWAKE; 1861-1913), "Ojistoh"
http://www.library.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/flint_il.html#poem1
Pauline Johnson Web Site (McMAster University)
Thursday: Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), "The Emperor of Ice-Cream" (420) & "Anecdote of the Jar" (420)
March 12th
(hand in drafts Feb 27th)
Tuesday March 13th: Langston Hughes (1902-1967), "Harlem" (530)
Parveen, Emily
Tuesday March 13th: Countee Cullen (1903-1946), "Yet Do I Marvel" (538)
Mike, Sean
Thursday March 15th: W.H. Auden (1907-1973), "In Memory of W.B. Yeats (d. Jan. 1939)" (553)
March 19th
(hand in drafts March 6th)
Tuesday 20th March: Ezra Pound (1885-1972), "The Garden" (447)
Christa, Casey, Andrew
Note: moved from previous week
Tuesday 20th March: Robert Lowell (1917-1977), "For the Union Dead" (650)
Joe
Thuesday 22nd March: Al Purdy (1918-2000), "Remains of an Indian Village" (662)
Ingrid, Susan
RESEARCH PAPER: due Thursday March 22nd
March 26th
(hand in drafts March 13th)
Tuesday 27th March: Adrienne Rich, "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning" (746)
Vanessa, Tiffany
Tuesday 27th March: Adrienne Rich (1929), "Final notations" (746), "Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers" (743)
Thursday 29th March: Philip Larkin (1922-1985), "Poetry of Departures" (682)
Natalie, John
April 2nd
(hand in drafts March 20th—note interference with research paper!)
Tuesday April 3rd: Derek Walcott (1930), "Ruins of a Great House" (755)
Joanna, Rebecca, David
Edward Kamau Brathwaite (1930), "Wings of a Dove" (767)
Thursday April 5th: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), "The Colossus" (776)
Ashleigh, Jen
April 9th
(hand in drafts March 27th)
Tuesday April 10th: Margaret Atwood (1939), "Death of a Young Son by Drowning" (833)
Matt, Theo, Renée. Keep your papers focussed: there are 5 presentations today.
Tuesday April 10th: Dionne Brand, "Canto I" (883) (identity politics: gender, race)
April, Lily. Keep your papers focussed: there are 5 presentations today!
TEST #2: Thursday April 12th
Material covered: all second term material.
Format: short-answer question (comment on 4 extracts chosen from 7 or 8).
Allowable aids: none.