Thursday, November 2nd
P.B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (935-936), “Song to the Men of England,” “England in 1819” (1004-1005), and excerpts from A Defence of Poetry (1015-1023)
Literary Terms: sonnet, ode, lyric poetry
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Tuesday, November 7th
P.B. Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (932-934)
Mary Shelley, “The Mortal Immortal” (1207-1214)
Keats, “Ode to Psyche” (1102-1103)
Thursday, November 9th
John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on Melancholy” and “To Autumn” (1103; ) and Letter to Richard Woodhouse (1147-1148) and Letter to George and Georgiana Keats (1148-1151)
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Tuesday, November 14th
Austen, Persuasion, Volume I
Literary Terms: free indirect discourse
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Thursday, November 16th
Austen, Persuasion, Volume II
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Tuesday, November 21st / Essay Guidelines Posted
Thursday, November 23rd / No School / Over Thanksgiving, you’ll need to formulate a topic for your final long essay. You’ll be given prompts to follow on eLC as you begin working on the long essay (7-10 pages). Further information and guidance will be posted throughout the semester but your final essay will be derived from the smaller writing tasks that you have completed over the semester.
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Tuesday, November 28th
John Keats, “La Dame Belle sans Merci” (1100) and “The Eve of St. Agnes” (1093-1099)
Felicia Hemans, “Properzia Rossi” and “Indian Woman’s Death-Song” (1055-1056)
Literary Terms: dramatic monologue vs. dramatic lyric
Thursday, November 30th / Last Day of class /reflection and disruption
Roger Reeves, “Romanticism (the Blue Keats)“
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, “Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle Lindsay, Free Mulatto, and Her White Cousin, the Lady Elizabeth Murray, Great-Nieces of William Murray, First Earl of Mansfield, and Lord Chief Justice of the King’s Bench” and “Three Cases Decided by William Murray” (to be posted)
Jackie Kay, “In My Country“
Tara Bergin, “Appointment with Jane Austen“
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Third Semester Exam during Exam Period: Thursday, December 7th from 3:30-6:30
Long Essay Due by December 13th and submitted on ELC
