English IV
British Literature
Course Syllabus
Coral Gables Senior High
2007 - 2008
I. Course introduction
II. Introduction to Medieval Culture and Literature
III. Bede and "Caedmon's Hymn" 23/ the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 11/ "The Dream of the Rood" 26
IV. "The Wanderer" 99 and "The Wife's Lament" 102/ "Wulf and Eadwacer" (class handout)
V. "Beowulf"
Day 1.Film \ Day 2 Performance
VI. Chaucer's "General Prologue"
Intro to life of Chaucer / Crusades
1. “Knight’s Tale”
2. "The Miller's Prologue and Tale" / the Fabliau Tradition
3. Reeve’s Tale
4. Man of law’s tale
5. "The Wife of Bath's Prologue"
6. Friar’s tale
7. Summoner’s tale
8. Clerks tale
9. Merchant’s Tale
10. Franklin’s tale
11. Physician’s tale
12. Pardoner’s tale
13. Shipman’s tale
14. Priores
15. Nun’s Priest’s tale
16. Manciple’s tale
V. Troilus
and Criseyde
1. Book 1
2. Book 2
3. Book 3
4. Book 4
5. Book 5
VI "Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight"
VII Margery Kempe / Julian of Norwich/ Marie de France
VIII selections from Wyatt 525 and Gascoigne 601/
IX Sir Walter Raleigh 878 (read all poems by authors)
X Selected sonnets from Shakespeare selected
XI Selected sonnets from Sidney 909
XII Dante’s Inferno
XIII Milton's poems "Paradise Lost" Book One
IV "Faustus" 990
V. Selections from Donne ("The
Flea," "The Good Morrow," "Song," and
"Canonization")/ Herbert ("The Altar," "Easter
Wings," "The Collar," and "The Pulley") Herrick
("Delight in Disorder," "Corrina's Gone A'Maying," "To
Virgins," and "Upon Julia's Clothes); Jonson ("To My Book,"
"On My First Daughter," "To John Donne," and "On My
First Son")
Marvell ("A Dialogue between the Soul and the Body," "To His Coy
Mistress," "The Mower Against Gardens," "Damon the
Mower")
VI Aemilia Lanyer / Wroth / Philips
/ Lady Anne Halkett / Cavendish
Swift's "The Lady's Dressing
Room" Monatagu's "The Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift...." Pope's
"Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea" Anne Finch's "The Answer"
/ Mary Leapor
VII " Pope's "Rape of the
Lock” "The Way of the World" "The Way of the World"