Students should gain an introduction to the canon of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon conquest in 449 through the Augustan age. Some of the major genres of this extensive period, genres such as the folk epic, the tale, the lyric, the tragedy, and the satire, should be encountered. Students should gain interpretive skills enabling them to comprehend works without a dependence upon secondary sources. Students will study representative works from the Middle Ages, the Sixteenth Century, the Seventeenth Century, and the Restoration-Eighteenth Century. Students are expected to participate in class discussions of the material.
All work is due on the date assigned to it.
If students foresee a problem in getting a paper in on time, the instructor must be contacted in advance of the due date. Make-up major exams and daily quizzes are not provided in any instance except a dire emergency. Again, the instructor must be notified, preferably in advance. The Blue Book must be handed in to the instructor no later than twenty-four hours before the test is given. If it is necessary to miss class, please contact me to see if work missed can be made up.