The following notice is tacked to the doors of Professor Chaucer's classroom and office.
ATTENTION STUDENTS:
Here are your reading lists for Introduction to Western Literature and Creative Writing: Poetry. You are not required to have any reading prepared for the first lesson. However, POETRY STUDENTS ARE ASKED TO BRING A POEM TO SHARE WITH THE CLASS.
Each Western Lit class will include a quiet study time, during which you will have the opportunity to catch up on the required reading for the next class. Yes, this is a reading intensive class, but I think you'll all manage just fine. Copies of all texts are available in the book closet in Classroom #1.
READING LIST: INTRODUCTION TO WESTERN LITERATURE
Lesson One: Introductions
Lesson Two: Aristophanes'
LysistrataLesson Three: Plato's
Symposium (Alt: Plato's
Apology)
Lesson Four: Dante's
InfernoLesson Five: Guest Lecture (TBA)
Lesson Six: Shakespeare's
Julius CaesarLesson Seven: Goethe's
FaustLesson Eight: Shelley's
FrankensteinLesson Nine: Hugo's
The Hunchback of Notre DameLesson Ten: Guest Lecture (TBA)
Lesson Eleven: Poe's
The Cask of AmontilladoLesson Twelve:
Woolf's Mrs. DallowayLesson Thirteen: Lee's
To Kill a MockingbirdLesson Fourteen: End of Term Project
CLASS ROSTER
Hamlet Dane Jr
Charlie Kawalsky
Isabel Evans
Alphonse Elric
Jessica Atreides
John Connor
Harry Potter
Auditing: Greg House
Independent Study: Phoebe Halliwell
Independent Study: Kiki Takayama
READING LIST: CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY
Lesson One: Introductions
Lesson Two: Petrarch's
Canzoniere and Shakespeare's selected
sonnetsLesson Three: Selected
Child balladsLesson Four: Chaucer's
Troylus and Creseyd Lesson Five: Selected haikus by
various authorsLesson Six: Pope's
The DunciadLesson Seven: Poe's selected
poemsLesson Eight: Dickinson's selected
poems and Lazarus' selected
poemsLesson Nine: Burns' selected
poemsLesson Ten: Donne's selected
poems and Shelley's selected
poemsLesson Eleven: Modern Lyrics as poetry, Guest Lecture (TBA)
Lesson Twelve: Holmes' selected
poems & Belloc's selected
poemsLesson Thirteen: Student discussion
Lesson Fourteen: End of Term Project
CLASS ROSTER
Martin Blank
Connor MacManus
Han Solo
Jack Harkness
Kiki Takayama (TA)
DEATH
Sharon Valerii
Phoebe Halliwell
Auditing: Greg House