Schedule
The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself. Numbers in parentheses refer to pages in Anita Dore's Premiere Book of Major Poets.
| September 4 | Introduction |
| September 6 | William Shakespeare, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?" (115-116); William Butler Yeats, "The Second Coming" (257) |
| September 9 | T. S. Eliot, "The Hollow Men" (260-263); Langston Hughes, "Harlem" (206) |
| September 11 | John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (190); Langston Hughes, "Afro-American Fragment" (165) |
| September 13 | Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" (71-72); Rudyard Kipling, "Manadalay" (93-94) |
| September 16 | Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" (51-53); Marianne Moore, "The Fish" (55-56); Karl Shapiro, "The Fly" (49-50) |
| September 18 | Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach" (288-289); Theodore Roethke, "Dolor" |
| September 20 | Emily Dickinson, "Because I Could Not Stop for Death" (232); Dylan Thomas, "The Hand the Signed the Paper Felled the City" (221-222) |
| September 23 | Edna St. Vincent Millay, "Apostrophe to Man" (215); Thomas Hardy, "The Man He Killed" (215-216); Wilfred Owen, "Arms and the Boy" (216) |
| September 25 | Walt Whitman, "When I Heard the Learned Astronomer" (27); Edgar Allan Poe, "Sonnet-To Science" (192); Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" (37-39) |
| September 27 | PEER-EDITING OF ASSIGNMENT ONE |
| September 30 | Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Preface-Ch. 3 |
| October 2 | Shelley, Chs. 4-7 |
| October 4 | Shelley, Chs. 8-11 ASSIGNMENT ONE DUE IN CLASS |
| October 7 | Shelley, Chs. 12-16 |
| October 9 | Shelley, Chs. 17-21 |
| October 11 | Shelley, Chs. 22-24 |
| October 14 | Shelley, concluding thoughts |
| October 16 | Screening: Frankenstein |
| October 18 | Screening: Frankenstein |
| October 21 | Screening and discussion: Frankenstein |
| October 23 | MIDTERM EXAM |
| October 25 | Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Part One, Chs. 1-10 |
| October 28 | Kerouac, Part One, Chs. 11-14 |
| October 30 | Kerouac, Part Two, Chs. 1-6 |
| November 1 | Kerouac, Part Two, Chs. 7-11 |
| November 4 | Kerouac, Part Three, Chs. 1-5 |
| November 6 | Kerouac, Part Three, Chs. 6-11 |
| November 8 | Kerouac, Parts Four and Five |
| November 11 | Kerouac, concluding thoughts |
| November 13 | Tom Stoppard, The Real Thing, Act One |
| November 15 | Stoppard, Act Two |
| November 18 | Stoppard, continued |
| November 20 | Stoppard, concluding thoughts |
| November 22 | William Gibson, Neuromancer, Part One, "Chiba City Blues" |
| November 25 | Screening: Blade Runner |
| November 27 | Screening: Blade Runner |
| November 29 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| December 2 | PEER-EDITING OF ASSIGNMENT TWO |
| December 4 | Gibson, Neuromancer, Part Two, "The Shopping Expedition" |
| December 6 | Gibson, Part Three, "Midnight in the Rue Jules Verne" |
| December 9 | Gibson, Part Four, "The Straylight Run" and Coda ASSIGNMENT TWO DUE IN CLASS |
| December 11 | Gibson, concluding thoughts |
| December 13 | Review for final exam |
| December 17 | FINAL EXAM FROM 4 TO 5:55PM |
26 September 2002