English 312                                                                                                     Finkelstein
Spring 2007                                                                                                    Welles 220
2-3:15                                                                                                                     X5245
Welles 119                                                                                     finkelst@geneseo.edu

Office Hours:
T/R 11-12:30 and by appointment    

 

Seventeenth-Century British Literature

 

Texts (available at Sundance):

Francis Bacon, The Essays (Penguin)

John Donne, Poems and Prose (Everyman)

Robert Herrick, Selected Poems (Everyman)

George Herbert, Complete English Poems (Penguin)

Ben Jonson (Oxford Authors)

Andrew Marvell (Penguin)

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi (New Mermaids)

As indicated on the syllabus, some of the readings will be found through links on the course website.

Week

Date

Assignment

1

1/16

Introduction

 

1/18

Jonson, The Alchemist Acts1-2

2

1/23

Alchemist Acts 3-4

 

1/25

Alchemist Act 5

3

1/30

Jonson, Epigrams 1-28, 62, 45, 94, 95, 101

 

2/1

Epigrams103, 105, 120, 124; The Forrest 2; Lanyer, Cokeham (handout)

4

2/6

Forrest 5, 9; Underwood 2 ("Charis"), 13, 47

 

2/8

Underwood70, Ungathered Verse 26; Webster, The Duchess of Malfi Act 1

5

2/13

Duchess Acts 2-3

 

2/15

Duchess Acts 4-5

6

2/20

Donne, poems pp. 13-27

 

2/22

Donne, poems pp. 28-45, 49-55

7

2/27

Donne, poems pp. 74-75, 93-97, 155-70 PAPER 1 DUE

 

3/1

Donne, poems pp. 155-70 (cont.); pp. 172-77

8

3/6

Herbert, "The Church Porch" (pp. 2-22)

 

3/8

poems from "The Church," pp. 23, 31-44, 49-51 [list of poems for special attention will be handed out]

 

 

SPRING VACATION

9

3/20

Herbert, poems, pp. 52-54, 58-59, 61, 72-77, 90-92

 

3/22

Herbert, pp. , 144-52, 156-59, "The Church Militant" (pp. 179-87)

10

3/27

Bacon, "Of Truth," "Of Simulation and Dissimulation," "Of Praise," "Of Negotiating," "Of Studies" ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE

 

3/29

Bacon, "Of Youth and Age," "Of Marriage and the Single Life," "Of Parents and Children"; Preface to Novum Organum

11

4/3

Hobbes, from Leviathan: "Introduction," chapters 4, 13, 14

 

4/5

 from Leviathan: chapters 17, 18; Herrick, poems pp. 3-5, 9-11,16,

12

4/10

Herrick, pp. 33-37, 59, 69, 50-53, 22-24, 30, 55-56, 65

 

4/12

Herrick, pp. 74-77, 87-91; Carew, "Spring," "Elegy Upon Dr. Donne," "When June is Past," "To Ben Jonson"

13

4/17

GENESEO RESEARCH DAY

 

4/19

Waller, "At Penshurst" (handout); "On a Girdle," "To the King on his Navy," "Of the Last Verses," "The Self Banished," "Song: Go Lovely Rose," "The Story of Phoebus and Daphne"

Crashaw, "Divine Epigrams 1-5," "Hymn to . . . St. Theresa," "On Mr. G. Herbert's Book";

14

4/24

Suckling, "A Ballad Upon a Wedding," "Songs (2-5), "Sonnet 1," "A Supplement"

Lovelace: "The Snail," "Song to Amarantha," "To Althea," "To Lucasta"

Marvell, "To . . . Lovelace," "The Coronet," 'The Nymph Complaining for the Death of her Fawn," "On a Drop of Dew," PAPER 2 DUE

 

4/26

Marvell, "A Dialogue between Resolved Soul and Created Pleasure," "To his Coy Mistress," "The Picture of Little T.C. . .," "The Garden," Mower poems (pp. 105-110)

15

5/1

Marvell, "Upon Appleton House" (pp. 75-99), "Horatian Ode upon Cromwell" (pp. 55-58)

 

15

5/4@ 12PM

Final Exam


EVALUATION

5-page paper (due Tuesday, February 27)                                           20%

8-10 page paper (due Tuesday, April 24 )                                           35%

Annotated Bibliography/Prospectus (Wednesday, March 27)             15%

Final Exam      (Friday May 4 @12)                                                   20%

Class Participation                                                                               10%

NOTE

Attendance is important because class participation will be taken into account. I am happy to discuss your ideas and planning for papers. However, because I have not found evaluating drafts of papers helpful to students, I can't actually read written work before it's due. All written work must be completed to pass the course. Late papers require the Instructor's consent.