Course Calendar

Note: Readings are due by class time on the date specified; in addition to the assigned readings, you are also required to read the course blog before each class period (posts should be up by 8AM the morning of class

Jan 12 Introduction
Ezra Pound: "In a Station of the Metro"

Jan 14
Introduction to Unit 1
Rhetorical Figure of the Week: zeugma / syllepsis
Readings: Vendler Chapter 1

Jan 16
Readings: Vendler Chapter 2

Jan 19
HOLIDAY

Jan 21
Readings: Vendler Chapter 3
Blog posts: Jon Achorn, Quinn Blake, Kristina Blanquiz, Danielle Brock, Andrew Brown, Nathan Diefes

Jan 23
Readings: Re-read the poems at the end of Vendler Chapter 3
Rhetorical terms of the week: epanalepsis, inclusio, chiasmus
Blog posts: Jacinda Evans, John French, Mattisha Henry, Sarah Hogshire, Scott Kimball, Christopher Kotecki
(Note: since there are no additional readings for this class, feel free to write about any of the poems in Chapter 3 of the Vendler book)

Jan 26
Readings: Vendler Chapter 4
Rhetorical terms: end-stop, enjambment
Blog posts: Emanuella Kucik, Daniel Llamas, John Meyer, Leslie Moore, Elizabeth Mott, Sherry Myers

Jan 28
Blog posts: Joshua Navey, Jane Olsen, Sarah Phillips, Bethany Phillis, Jonathan Poplin
(Note: since there are no additional readings for this class, feel free to write about any of the poems in Chapter 4 of the Vendler book)

Jan 30
Readings: Vendler Chapter 5
Blog posts: Zoey Russell, Rebecca Salman, Noah Saul, Daniel Silva, Kimberly Welch, Jameson Smith

Feb 2
Blog posts: Brent Thomas, Jayce Walker, Jonathan Young, Victoria Sosa, Kevin Rosenberg, Cierra McGee
(Note: since there are no additional readings for this class, feel free to write about any of the poems in Chapter 5 of the Vendler book)

Feb 4
Readings: Vendler Chapter 6
Blog posts (see blog prompt #2): Jon Achorn, Quinn Blake, Kristina Blanquiz, Danielle Brock, Andrew Brown, Nathan Diefes

Feb 6
Blog posts (see blog prompt #2): Jacinda Evans, Mattisha Henry, Sarah Hogshire, Scott Kimball, Christopher Kotecki
(Note: since there are no additional readings for this class, feel free to write about any of the poems in Chapter 6 of the Vendler book)

Feb 9
CLASS CANCELED

Feb 11
Readings: Vendler Chapter 7
Blog posts (see blog prompt #2): Emanuella Kucik, Leslie Moore, Elizabeth Mott

Feb 13
PAPER #1 DUE

Feb 16
Readings: Vendler Chapter 8
Blog posts (see blog prompt #2): Joshua Navey, Jane Olsen, Sarah Phillips, Bethany Phillis, Jonathan Poplin


Feb 18
Readings: Vendler Chapter 9
Blog posts: (see blog prompt #2): Zoey Russell, Rebecca Salman, Noah Saul, Daniel Silva, Kimberly Welch, Jameson Smith


Feb 20
Reading: Vendler Appendix on Prosody pages 659-665 (stop at the section heading "Rhymes and Stanza Forms"), 673-4, John Dryden: "To the Memory of Mr. Oldham" (463), H.D.: "Helen" (488), Edgar Allan Poe: "To Helen" (559), Wallace Stevens: "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" (612)
Note: In addition to completing the reading, do your best to diagram the rhythm in the Dryden poem; at the beginning of class I'll walk around to look at your book to make sure you've attempted this.
Blog posts (see blog prompt #2): Brent Thomas, Jonathan Young, Victoria Sosa, Kevin Rosenberg, Cierra McGee

Unit 2: The Romantic-Era Sonnet (Note: All page numbers in this section refer to the Century of Sonnets book)

Feb 23
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: Jon Achorn, Quinn Blake, Kristina Blanquiz, Danielle Brock, Andrew Brown, Nathan Diefes

Feb 25
Readings: Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sonnets from the Portuguese, I-V, XIII-XIV, XLIII (these begin on page 216)
Blog posts: Jacinda Evans, Mattisha Henry, Sarah Hogshire, Scott Kimball

Feb 27
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: Emanuella Kucik, Leslie Moore, Elizabeth Mott, Christopher Kotecki

Mar 2
Readings (please print these and bring them to class): John Milton: "Sonnet 14," "Sonnet 22," "Sonnet 23"
Blog posts: Joshua Navey, Jane Olsen, Sarah Phillips, Jonathan Poplin

Mar 4
MID-TERM EXAM

Mar 6
Class Canceled

Mar 9-13
Spring break; no class

Mar 16
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: Zoey Russell, Rebecca Salman, Noah Saul, Daniel Silva, Kimberly Welch, Jameson Smith

Mar 18
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: Brent Thomas, Jonathan Young, Victoria Sosa, Kevin Rosenberg, Cierra McGee

Mar 20
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: Jon Achorn, Quinn Blake, Kristina Blanquiz, Danielle Brock, Andrew Brown, Nathan Diefes

Mar 23
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: Jacinda Evans, Mattisha Henry, Sarah Hogshire, Bethany Phillis, Scott Kimball

Mar 25
Readings: Robert Southey: “Poems on the Slave Trade” (read poems I, II, III, IV, V, and VI; pages 94-96)
Blog posts: Emanuella Kucik, Leslie Moore, Elizabeth Mott, Christopher Kotecki

Mar 27
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: Joshua Navey, Jane Olsen, Sarah Phillips, Jonathan Poplin

Unit 3: Longer Poetry (note: all page numbers in this section refer to The Prelude and Don Juan)

Mar 30
Readings: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799, Part I (1-13)
Blog posts: Zoey Russell, Rebecca Salman, Noah Saul, Daniel Silva, Kimberly Welch, Jameson Smith

Apr 1
Readings: The Two-Part Prelude of 1799, Part II (13-27)
Blog posts: Brent Thomas, Jonathan Young, Victoria Sosa, Kevin Rosenberg, Cierra McGee

Apr 3
Readings: The Prelude 1805 version, Book I
Jon Achorn, Quinn Blake, Kristina Blanquiz, Danielle Brock, Andrew Brown, Nathan Diefes

Apr 6
Readings: The Prelude 1805 version, Book II
Blog posts: Jacinda Evans, Mattisha Henry, Sarah Hogshire, Bethany Phillis, Scott Kimball

Apr 8
Readings: The Prelude 1805 version, Book III
Blog posts: Emanuella Kucik, Leslie Moore, Elizabeth Mott, Christopher Kotecki

Apr 10
HOLIDAY: NO CLASS

Apr 13
No readings: You will use today's class time to work on your Wikipedia group projects

Apr 15
Readings: The Prelude 1805 version, Book XI
Blog posts: Joshua Navey, Jane Olsen, Sarah Phillips, Bethany Phillis, Jonathan Poplin

Apr 17
Readings: The Prelude 1805 version, Book XII
Blog posts: Brent Thomas, Jonathan Young, Victoria Sosa, Kevin Rosenberg, Cierra McGee

Apr 20
Note: You will receive 5 minutes at the beginning of the class to coordinate your Wikipedia project
Readings: Byron: Canto I (stanzas 1-110)
Blog posts: Zoey Russell, Rebecca Salman, Noah Saul, Daniel Silva, Kimberly Welch, Jameson Smith

Apr 22
WIKIPEDIA PROJECT DUE
Readings: Byron: Canto I (stanzas 111-222)
Optional Blog Post

Apr 24
Readings: Byron: Canto II (stanzas 1-99)
Optional Blog Post

Apr 27
Readings: Byron: Canto II (stanzas 100-216)
Optional Blog Post
CREATIVE RESPONSE ASSIGNMENT DUE

May 7
FINAL EXAM: 12:00PM (NOTE DIFFERENT TIME)