Monday, January 10, 2011

Course Calendar

January 10
Introduction

January 12
Introduction to Unit 1
Rhetorical Figure of the Week: zeugma / syllepsis
Readings: Vendler Chapter 1



January 14
Re-read the following poems from Vendler Ch 1: Rita Dove: "Flash Cards;" Louise Glück: "The School Children;" Emily Dickinson: "A Narrow Fellow in the Grass"


January 17
MLK Day; No Class

January 19
Readings: Vendler Chapter 2
Blog posts: Chip Lewis, Will Frazier, Lauren Houston, Jiwon Lim, Yanneka King, Rashida Moore

January 21
Readings: Re-read the poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 2
Blog posts: Marty Hortelano, Alec Moore, Ian Shackelford, Maria Sturdivant, Juan Hernandez, Nicole Mitchell

January 24
Readings: Re-read the poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 2 one more time!
Blog posts: Nick Williams, Chris Felix, Brian Smith, Learie Jones, Kyra Dorgeloh, Devon Abdo

January 26
Readings: Vendler Chapter 3
Blog posts: Jim Frazier, Vanessa Badillo, Tachae Pone, Ashton Doby, Andrew Muniz, Sharessa Royster

January 28
Readings: Re-read the poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 3
Blog posts: Tiesha Bell, Adam Mcdonald, Johnny Chapman, Kristen Coconis, Anuja Mathur

January 31
Readings: Re-read D.H. Lawrence's poem "Snake" (Note: it's posted on the course blog for those of you who don't have this poem in your books)
Blog posts: Marquise Hudson, Eric Watson, Nicole Daniels, Gabriel Baylor, Candice Locklear

February 2
Readings: Vendler Chapter 4
Blog posts: Addison Williams, Jenna Kazmaier, Hannah Blackwell, Eric Melton


February 4
Readings: Re-read the poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 4
Blog posts: Chip Lewis, Will Frazier, Lauren Houston, Jiwon Lim, Yanneka King, Rashida Moore

February 7
Readings: Mark Strand: "Courtship," Seamus Heaney: "From the Frontier of Writing," Jorie Graham: "San Sepolcro"
Blog posts: Marty Hortelano, Alec Moore, Ian Shackelford, Juan Hernandez, Nicole Mitchell

February 9
Readings: Vendler Chapter 5 (main part of the chapter only; please read the poems at the end for Friday)
Blog posts: Nick Williams, Chris Felix, Brian Smith, Learie Jones, Kyra Dorgeloh, Devon Abdo


February 11
Readings: Poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 5
Blog posts: Jim Frazier, Vanessa Badillo, Tachae Pone, Ashton Doby, Andrew Muniz, Sharessa Royster

February 14
Readings: TS Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock;" Shakespeare: "Sonnet 129;" Anne Bradstreet: "To My Dear and Loving Husband"; Lucy B Goosey; Benjamin U. Anabaraonye: "He Sends His Love;" Sappho: "I Have Not Had One Word from Her"
Blog posts: Tiesha Bell, Adam Mcdonald, Johnny Chapman, Kristen Coconis, Anuja Mathur


February 16
Readings: Vendler Chapter 6
Blog posts: Marquise Hudson, Eric Watson, Nicole Daniels, Gabriel Baylor, Candice Locklear


February 18
Class canceled (I'll be at a conference in Savannah, GA)

February 21
Readings: Re-read the poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 6
Blog posts: Miranda McNear, Jenna Kazmaier, Hannah Blackwell, Eric Melton, Nicole Mitchell

February 23
Readings: Vendler Chapter 7
Blog posts: Chip Lewis, Will Frazier, Lauren Houston, Jiwon Lim, Yanneka King, Rashida Moore

February 25
Readings; Re-read the poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 7
Blog posts: Marty Hortelano, Alec Moore, Ian Shackelford, Juan Hernandez

February 28
Review / Practice for Mid-term


March 2
Mid-term exam

March 4-11
No class; spring break

March 14
Readings: Vendler Chapter 8
Blog posts: Nick Williams, Chris Felix, Brian Smith, Learie Jones, Kyra Dorgeloh, Devon Abdo

March 16
Readings: Vendler Chapter 9
Blog posts: Jim Frazier, Vanessa Badillo, Tachae Pone, Ashton Doby, Andrew Muniz, Sharessa Royster


Unit 2: The Romantic-Era Sonnet
March 18
Readings: Charles Lloyd: “Whether Thou Smile or Frown…” (93), Charlotte Smith: “From Petrarch” (33), Thomas Russell: “To Valclusa” (49), Coleridge: “On a Discovery Made Too Late” (60)
Blog posts: Tiesha Bell, Adam McDonald, Johnny Chapman, Kristen Coconis, Anuja Mathur


March 21
Readings: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese, I-V, XIII-XIV, XLIII (these begin on page 216)
Blog posts: Marquise Hudson, Eric Watson, Gabriel Baylor, Candice Locklear, Nicole Daniels


March 23
Readings: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese, I-V, XIII-XIV, XLIII (these begin on page 216)
Blog posts: Miranda McNear, Jenna Kazmaier, Hannah Blackwell, Nicole Mitchell, Eric Melton


March 25
Readings: Mary Robbins, “Sappho Discovers Her Passion” (74), “Describes Phaon” (76), “She Endeavors to Fascinate Him” (78), “Her Last Appeal to Phaon” (88), Mary Bryan: “To -- --“ , “To -- --“ (150; read both poems), Elizabeth Cobbold: Sonnets of Laura: “I. Reproach,” “II. The Veil,” “III. Absence” (178-9)
Blog posts: Sezman Williams, Chip Lewis, Will Frazier, Lauren Houston, Jiwon Lim, Yanneka King, Rashida Moore


March 28
Paper #1 draft due; draft workshops on Paper #1


March 30
Readings: Coleridge: “Life” (64), “To the Autumnal Moon” (60), Charlotte Smith: “The Sea View” (38), “Written at the Close of Spring” (30), Wordsworth: “Scorn Not the Sonnet” (131)
Blog posts: Sezman Williams, Marty Hortelano, Alec Moore, Ian Shackelford, Juan Hernandez


April 1
Readings: Wordsworth: The River Duddon Sonnets (begins on p. 118), I, II, II, IV, V, VI, William Beckford: “Elegiac Sonnet to a Mopstick” (91)
Blog posts: Nick Williams, Chris Felix, Brian Smith, Learie Jones, Kyra Dorgeloh, Devon Abdo


April 4
Readings: Charlotte Smith: “To a Nightingale” (30), “To Sleep” (31), Anna Seward: “To the Poppy” (103), “Written December 1790” (104), Wordsworth: “Mutability” (131), Keats: “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (158)
Blog posts: Jim Frazier, Vanessa Badillo, Tachae Pone, Ashton Doby, Andrew Muniz, Sharessa Royster
Paper #1 due


April 6
Readings: Coleridge: “No. IV. La Fayette” (56), Wordsworth: “To Toussaint L’Ouverture” (117), Joseph Hucks: “To Freedom” (99), Martha Hanson: “How Proudly Man Usurps the Power to Reign” (137), Shelley: “Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte” (163), “England in 1819” (167)
Blog posts: Sezman Williams, Tieshia Bell, Adam McDonald, Johnny Chapman, Kristen Coconis, Anuja Mathur


April 8
Readings: Robert Southey: “Poems on the Slave Trade” (read poems I, II, III, IV, V, and VI; pages 94-96)
Marquise Hudson, Eric Watson, Gabriel Baylor, Candice Locklear, Nicole Daniels


April 11
Readings: Wordsworth: “Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways” (131), “On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway” (132), “With Ships the Sea Was Sprinkled Far and Nigh” (114), “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, Sep. 3, 1803” (115), John Thelwall: “On the Rapid Extension of the Suburbs” (67)
Blog posts: Jenna Kazmaier, Hannah Blackwell


April 13
Readings: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799, Part I (1-13)


April 15
Readings: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799, Part II (13-27)
Draft of Paper #2 due; in-class workshop on Paper #2


April 18
Readings: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799, Part II (13-27)
Student evaluations (please bring your laptop to class)
Optional blog post


April 20
Readings: Look back over the 1799 Prelude
Paper #2 due
Proposal for Creative Response Assignment due


April 22
No class; holiday

April 25
Readings: The Prelude 1805 version, Book I
Optional blog post


April 27

CREATIVE RESPONSE ASSIGNMENT DUE
In-class presentation of creative response assignments

Saturday April 30, 12PM
Final exam in Dey Hall 307
NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION FOR FINAL!!!!

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