Course Schedule
Week 1: The Old and Medieval Literature (Beowulf, Romance and Chaucer) Week 2: Renaissance (Edmund Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare’s Sonnets) Week 3: Shakespeare’s Play ( The Merchant of Venice), Bacon
Week 4: Metaphysical Poets, Cavalier Poets, John MiltonWeek 5: The Neoclassical Period (Alexander Poe, Thomas Gray, Rise of Fiction) Week 6: The Romantic Period (Wordsworth, Coleridge,Byron, Shelley, Keats)
Week 7: The Victorian Period (Dickens, Brontë, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy)Week 8: The Modern Period (Yeats, Eliot, Joyce, Beckett) Week 9: American Literature: the Romantic Period (Poe, Whitman, Dickinson)
Week 10: American Realistic Period (Twain, James, Dreiser, Frost)Week 11: American Modernist Period (Pound, Williams, Hemingway) Week 12: American Modernist Period (Fitzgerald, Faulkner, O’Neill)