ENGLISH 2310: ENGLISH LITERATURE BEFORE 1790

 

 

Our version

 

Alternate One

 

Alternate Two

 

Alternate Three—the archive

Week 1

Old English poetry/Wanderer/Maldon

 

Old English poetry

 

Chaucer, General Prologue

 

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle

2

Beowulf/Dream of the Rood

 

Chaucer, General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

 

Chaucer, Wife of Bath’s Tale

 

Chaucer, Merchant’s Tale

3

OE/Lanval

 

Chaucer, Miller’s Tale

 

Chaucer, Pardoner’s Tale

 

Chaucer, Franklin’s Tale

4

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

 

Julian of Norwich/ Margery Kempe

 

Chaucer, Nun’s Priest’s Tale

 

Middle English & 16th-c lyrics

5

Abraham and Isaac/Doctor Faustus

 

Spenser, The Faerie Queene

 

Wakefield Second Shepherd’s Play

 

Mankind

6

Shakepeare, King Lear

 

The Faerie Queene

 

Malory, Morte Darthur

 

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1

7

King Lear

 

Shakespeare, Othello

 

Sonnets and 16th-c poetry

 

Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1

8

Sidney, Defence

 

 Othello

 

Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

 

Cary, Tragedy of Miriam

9

Sonnets/John Donne

 

16th-17th c. poetry

 

Twelfth Night

 

16th-17th c. prose: Burton, Sidney,  Hoby, Ralegh, Hooker

10

Milton, Paradise Lost

 

Milton, Paradise Lost

 

Ben Jonson-poetry

 

Milton, Comus

11

Paradise Lost

 

Milton, Paradise Lost

 

John Donne-poetry

 

Congreve, Love for Love

12

Paradise Lost

 

Aphra Behn, Oroonoko

 

17th-century poetry: Marvell, Herbert, Herrick, etc.

 

Congreve/Sheridan, The School for Scandal

13

Paradise Lost

 

Dryden’s poetry

 

Milton, L’Allegro, Il Penseroso, Lycidas

 

School for Scandal

14

Thanksgiving break—no class

15

Pope, Rape of the Lock

 

Swift, Gulliver’s Travels

 

Samuel Johnson, poetry and prose

 

17th & 18th c. prose: Addison, Steele, Defoe, Bunyan

16

Pope

 

Gulliver’s Travels

 

Boswell, Burney, Gray

 

Samuel Johnson, Rasselas