Major English Writers 1

Assignments

Friday, Nov. 20: Read Milton's Paradise Lost: Book 9 (1973-1998). Reading Question due. (You can read a summary of passages we are skipping at the Paradise Lost Study Guide.)

Monday, Nov. 23: Read Milton's Paradise Lost: selections from Book 10, lines 414-584 (pages 2007-2010) and lines 706-1104 (pages 2013-2021); selection from Book 12, lines 466-649 (pages 2051-2055). (You can read a summary of passages we are skipping at the Paradise Lost Study Guide.)

Wednesday, Nov. 25: No class (Thanksgiving Break).

                    

Friday, Nov. 27: No class (Thanksgiving Break).

Course Web Pages / Handouts

• Exam 3 Essay Questions (11/20)
• Milton's Paradise Lost: Questions (11/9)
• Exam 2 In-Class Questions (10/30)
• William Shakespeare's Hamlet: Questions and Themes (10/30)
• Exam 2 Essay Questions (10/13)
• Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Summary of Book 1 (9/28)
• Spenser's The Faerie Queene: The Moral Allegory (9/28)
• Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Characters and their Allegorical Significance (9/28)
• Spenser's The Faerie Queene: Concepts and Themes (9/25)
• Exam 1 In-Class Questions (9/18)
• The Sounds of Chaucer's Middle English (9/9)
• Exam 1 Essay Questions (9/4)
• Beowulf: Concepts and Themes (8/19)
• Reading Questions (8/17)
• Course Syllabus (8/17)

Other Web Resources

• John Milton's Paradise Lost: Study Guide
   
• Shakespeare's Hamlet Study Guides: such as SparkNotes and Absolute Shakespeare
• Shakespeare's Hamlet: Enotes Video Study Guides
   
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Audio Files of the First 42 Lines of the General Prologue
• Chaucer's Canterbury Tales: Side-by-Side Middle English and Modern English
   
• Beowulf: Map: The Geography of Beowulf
• Beowulf: The Sutton Hoo Room and Sutton Hoo at Wikipedia
• Beowulf: The Prologue in Old English
   
• Illinois Valley Community College's Style Book
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature Web Companion
• Professor John Lye's Critical Reading: A Guide