Syllabus: British Literature English 12-A
Following are time periods of literature that we will study. Under each time period, you will see certain selections and authors that we plan on reading. Selections/authors are subject to change.
I. Anglo-Saxon Period
1. Background History
2. "The Seafarer"
3. Beowulf
II. The Medieval Period
1. Background History
2. "Sir Patrick Spens"
3. "Get Up and Bar the Door"
4. "Barbara Allan"
5. from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
6. from Morte d' Arthur
7. Becket
8. from Caterbury Tales
-Prologue
-"The Pardoner's Tale"
-"The Miller's Tale"
-"The Lady of Bath's Tale"
9. from Everyman
III. The English Renaissance
1. Background History
2. "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
3. "The Nymph's Reply"
4. "Sonnet 29", "Sonnet 73", "Sonnet 116", and
"Sonnet 130"
5. The Tragedy of Macbeth
6. Hamlet
7. The Taming of the Shrew
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream
9. The Tempest
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IV. The Seventeenth Century
1. Background History
2. Selected poems form three groups of the time period
3. from Paradise Lost
4. from Pilgrim's Progress
V. The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century
1. Background History
2. from The Diary
3. from The Journal of the Plague Year
4. Gulliver's Travels
5. from The Rape of Lock
VI. The Romantic Age and the Victorian Age
1. Background History
2. "The Solitary Reaper"
3. Frankenstein
4. Selected poems and poets
5. Wuthering Heights (video)
VII. The Twentienth Century
1. Background History
2. "Araby'
3. "The Rocking-Horse Winner"
4. "The Demon-lover"
5. Pygmalion
6. My Fair Lady (video)
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VIII. The research paper will be completed in the second
nine weeks.
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