TEXTS: M. H. Abrams et al., eds. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 7th ed. Vol. 2. Norton
Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice. Oxford.
Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre. Oxford.
A. S. Byatt. Possession. Vintage

COURSE REQUIREMENTS:

1. ONE ESSAY, 1500-2000 words, typed, due April 14, at the beginning of the class period. Any papers not received at this time will be late. Late work will receive no written comments and the grade will reflect the lateness of the paper. Drafts, which also must be typed, for peer review will be due two weeks before the essay due date. Extensions will be granted only to those having a note, documenting illness or other extenuating circumstances, from a physician or academic dean. ALL DRAFTS, ROUGH AND FINAL, MUST BE TYPED. HANDWRITTEN PAPERS WILL BE RETURNED UNREAD. Paper topics will be discussed in class. The essay will count 20% of your final grade.

2. Class discussion list and WWW site. I have set up for this class an e-mail discussion list and a Web site(http://www.uvm.edu/~lbrought). At the Web site you will find information pertaining to the pragmatics of this class, including syllabus, paper assignments, journal questions and other announcements, in addition to materials to supplement the readings. It will be your responsibility to visit this site regularly to make sure you are current with class happenings. Each student will also subscribe to the class discussion list and will post responses to both in-class and out-of-class questions to this list. To subscribe to the list, send a message to listproc@list.uvm.edu. Leave the subject heading blank and type in the message space "subscribe eng22 your name". I am assigning a question every week, list to be found on theBrit Lit WWW page, that you will answer on the list. In addition, you may keep a hard copy journal for extra credit. Should you choose to do this, you will react to each reading assignment. Journal entries should be one page long. On-line responses to discussion questions count 10% of final grade. Please save your postings and make hard copies to turn in at the end of the semester.

3. MEMORIZATION. You will learn by heart Wordsworth's "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" and Yeats's "Leda and the Swan." The first will be due January 28, and the second April 7. Memorization average counts 5% of your final grade.

4. QUIZZES, given regularly throughout the semester. Quiz average counts 15% of final grade. No make-ups will be given for missed quizzes.

5. TWO HOUR EXAMS, February 11 and March 3. You may be excused from these exams by only your college dean or the student health center. Each exam counts 15% of your final grade.

6. FINAL EXAM. Two hours. Your absence from this exam, unless you've been excused by your college dean, means automatic failure for the course. Exam counts 20% of your final grade.

7. CLASS ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION also count toward your final grade, especially in cases where grades are borderline. Repeated, unexcused absences (more than three for the semester) will lower your final grade. You will be counted absent if you are late for class. You should bring both your texts and notebook to each class meeting; notebook entries and class discussion involve reference to the text.

PLEASE NOTE: All written work must be completed and turned it. Failure to hand in any written assignment (including paper drafts and on-line journals) will result in failure for the course.

ASSIGNMENTS:
January 19 Introduction
January 21 Wordsworth: Introduction, 1-21, 219-21; "Tintern Abbey," 235-38; Prelude I, 303-319
January 24 Wordsworth: Lucy poems, 251-256; "The Ruined Cottage," 259-270
January 26 Wordsworth: "Michael," 172-182; Prelude VIII, 351-353
January 28 Wordsworth: Prelude VII, 348-351; Poems, 280-285; "Elegiac Stanzas," 295-96; Sonnets, 295-295 FIRST MEMORIZATION
January 31 Wordsworth: "Intimations," 286-292; Prelude XII, 364-372 "Solitary Reaper," 293-94
February 2 Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Book 1, Chapters 1-18
February 4 Austen: " Book 1, Chapter 19-Book 2, Chapter 15
February 7 Austen: " Book 2, Chapter 16- Book 3, Chapter 7
February 9 Austen: " Book 3, Chapters 8-18
February 11 HOUR EXAM
February 14 Keats: Introduction, 823-826; Letters, 889-903; "Chapman's Homer," 826; "Elgin Marbles," 828; "When I Have Fears," 833; "La Belle Dame," 845-847.
February 16 Keats: "St. Agnes," 835-844
*February 18 Keats: Odes "Nightingale," "Grecian Urn," "Melancholy," 849-54; "To Autumn," 872-73 February 21 No class: President's day
February 23 Keats: "Lamia," 856-872
February 25 Tennyson: Introduction, 1198-1201; "Kracken"-"Shallot," 1201-1208 BEGIN BRONTE NOW
February 28 Tennyson: "Lotus Eaters," "Ulysses," "Tithonus," 1208-1216
March 1 Tennyson: "Lancelot and Elaine," handout
March 3 HOUR EXAM
March 6 Barrett Browning: Intro, 1173-74; Sonnets, 1179-80 Aurora Leigh, 1180-94; "Mother and Poet," 1195-98.
March 8 Bronte: Jane Eyre. Introduction-Vol 1, Ch. 10, p. 94
March 10 Bronte: " Vol. 1, Ch.11-Vol. 2, Ch. 4, pp. 94-207.
March 13 Bronte: " Vol. 2, Ch. 5-Vol. 2. Ch. 11, pp. 207-299.
March 15 Bronte: " Vol.3, Ch. 1-Vol. 3, Ch. 7, pp. 301-393.
March 17 Bronte: " Vol. 3, Ch. 8-Vol. 3, Ch. 12, pp. 393-458.
March 20-24 Spring Break
March 27 Browning: Introduction, 1345-49; "Porphyria's Lover" through "My Last Duchess," 1349 53;"The Bishop Orders," 1359-62
March 29 Browning: "Tocatta," 1363-64; "Love Among the Ruins," 1364-67; "Childe Roland," 1367 73mm
March 31 Browning: "Fra Lippo Lippi," 1373-82; "Andrea Del Sarto," 1385-90. PAPER DRAFT
April 3 Yeats: Introduction, 1897-1914, 2085-88; "King Goll"-"Folly," 2085-96 BEGIN BYATT NOW
April 5 Yeats: "Adam's Curse," 2097-98; "No Second Troy," 2098; "Wild Swans," 2101;"Easter 1916," 2104-06 "Second Coming," 2106-07
April 7 Yeats: SECOND MEMORIZATION "Prayer," 2107-09; "Sailing to Byzantium," 2109-2110; "Leda," 2110-11; "Among Schoolchildren," 2111-13; "Crazy Jane Talks to the Bishop," 2116-7
April 10 Yeats: "Lapis Lazuli," 2117-19; "Under Ben Bulben," 2121-23
April 12 Woolf: Introduction 2141-43 A Room of One's Own," 2153-74
April 14 Woolf: " 2174-2214 PAPER 2
April 17 Byatt: Possession, 1-102
April 19 Byatt: 103-172
April 21 Byatt: 173-284
April 24 Byatt: 285-413
April 26 Byatt: 414-502
April 28 Byatt:503-555
May 1 Byatt
May 3 Wrap up.