Required texts (available from Bookman bookstore):

The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Ed. M.H. Abrams, et al. 6th edition. Volume 1. New York: Norton, 1993.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales. Trans. David Wright. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985.

Course schedule:

Week 1 Introduction

Week 2 Beowulf (pp. 21-48)
Beowulf; The Wanderer (pp. 68-70)

Week 3 Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, `General Prologue` (pp. 1-22)
`The Miller`s Tale` (pp. 79-98)

Week 4 `The Miller`s Tale`
`The Wife of Bath`s Tale` (pp. 219-251)

Week 5 `The Wife of Bath`s Tale`
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (pp. 200-54) Paper Due

Week 6 Sir Gawain
Sir Gawain

Week 7 Morte Darthur (pp. 344-63)
Morte Darthur

Week 8 Everyman (pp. 363-84)

Week 9 Everyman; More, Utopia (pages to be announced)
poems by Wyatt and Surrey (pages to be announced)

Week 10 Wyatt and Surrey
Wyatt and Surrey

Week 11 Midterm Exam (1 hour)
Sidney, Astrophil and Stella (pages to be announced)

Week 12 Astrophil and Stella
Astrophil and Stella

Week 13 Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender (pp. 501-14) (`April`)
Shepheardes Calender (`October`)

Week 14 Shakespeare, Sonnets (pages to be announced)
Sonnets

Week 15 Sonnets
Sonnets

Week 16 Sonnets
Sonnets

Final Exam (2 hour