1. Introduction: The Pleasures of Fiction
   1. 1. What is Literature
   2. 2. Ref. "Fiction: Understanding the Text" Chopin, Kate "The Story of an Hour"
   3. 3. Tan, Amy "Two Kinds" "A Pair of Tickets"
   4. 4.Updike, John --"A & P"
   5. 5. Joyce, James "Araby"
   6. 6. Faulkner, William "A Rose for Emily"
2. Shaw, George Bernard Pygmalion
   1. Act I-V
   2. Video of Act I-V
3. Poetry
   1. I: Lyric and Tone
      1. Frost, Robert "Stopping by Woods…"
      2. Brooks, Gwendolyn "We Real Cool"
      3. Dickinson, Emily " I'm Nobody! Who Are You? "
      4. Robinson, Edward Arlington "Richard Cory"
      5. Hayden, Robert "Those Winter Sundays"
   2. II: Diction & Figurative Language1
      1. Wordsworth "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
      2. Burns, Robert "A Red, Red Rose"
      3. Wilbur, Richard "A Simile for Her Smile"
      4. Plath, Sylvia "Metaphors"
      5. Mary Oliver "Wild Geese"
   3. III: Figurative Language 2
      1. Pound, Ezra "In a Station of the Metro"
      2. Hughes, Langston "Harlem"
      3. Blake, William "The Sick Rose"
      4. Dickinson, Emily "I heard a Fly buzz—when I died"
      5. Auden "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"
   4. IV: Sound, Image, Sense
      1. Williams, William Carlos "The Dance"
      2. Auden W. H. "Musee des Beaux Arts"
      3. Whitman "When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer"
   5. V: Poetic Forms
      1. Whitman "A Noiseless Patient Spider"
      2. Cummings, E. E. "l(a"
      3. Thomas, Dylan "Do Not Go Gentle into That Goodnight"
      4. E. Pound "In a Station of the Metro"
      5. Wordsworth "The World is Too Much with Us"
4. Medieval Lyric & Ballads
   1. Anonymous “Western Wind”
   2. Anonymous “Sir Patrick Spence”
   3. *Anonymous “Barbara Allen”
   4. Cf. Keats “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
5. 16th Century Poetry
   1. Shakespeare
   2. Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the marriage...”
   3. *Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day"
   4. * the courting sonnet from Romeo & Juliet
   5. Video: Shakespeare in Love
6. 17th Century Poetry
   1. Donne "The Flea”
   2. Donne "Valediction: Forbidden Mourning"
   3. Donne "Death, Be Not Proud”
   4. Marvel “To His Coy Mistress”
   5. Related Film: Wit
7. 18th Century Poetry (Poetic Criticism)
   1. Pope “Sound and Sense” from Essay on Criticism
   2. Related Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Orlando
8. Romantic Poetry
   1. Blake "The Sick Rose", "London"
   2. * Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
   3. Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
   4. *---. “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
   5. *---. "Bright Star"
   6. Related Film: Bright Star
   7. *Shelley “Ozymandias”
9. Victorian Dramatic Monologue
   1. Browning “My Last Duchess”
   2. Tennyson “Ulysses”
10. Frankenstein
    1. (1) Narrative Frames and Family Relations
    2. (2) Science, Nature and Creation
    3. (3) The Human Monster's Education
    4. (4) Revenge and Obsession
    5. (5) Romantic Hero and Gender
11. The Death of a Salesman