T.S.Eliot

Week 1 (Jan 21)

• Introduction -- Eliot, "Journey of the Magi" & "A Song for Simeon" (CPP 68-70)
• Choruses from "The Rock" (CPP 96-116)
• Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (CPP 149-172)

• Ash Wednesday (CPP 60-67)
• Murder in the Cathedral (CPP 173-222)

• The Cocktail Party (CPP 295-388)
• The Idea of a Christian Society (CC 1-78)

• Burnt Norton (CPP 117-122)
• East Coker (CPP 123-129)
• Notes towards the Definition of Culture (CC 79-202)--select chapters will be assigned to each student. You should focus your reading on those pages primarily.

• Dry Salvages (CPP 130-137)
• Little Gidding (CPP 138-148)

W. H. Auden

Week 6 (Feb 25)

• "Auden, "The Dark Years" (282-285), "In Sickness and in Health" through "Mundus et Infans" (317-326), "Canzone" (330); "Auden and the Limits of Poetry" by Alan Jacobs
• Memorial for the City" through "Homage to Clio" (591-613)

• "Kairos and Logos" (305-310), "Atlantis" (315-317), "Anthem" (332), "In Schraft's" (334)
• For the Time Being (347-400)

Spring Break March 7-11--No Class

Exam #1 due in LC#230 by Monday, Mar 14, 5pm

• Horae Canonicae (627-641)
• Thanksgiving for a Habitat (687-715)

Good Friday March 25--No Class

• "Under Sirius" (545-546), "Friday's Child" (675-676), "Whitsunday in Kirchstetten" (743-745), "Profile" (774-77), "Insignificant Elelphants" (807-809).
• "To T.S. Eliot" (577-78), "Elegy for JFK" (754-55), "A Mosiac for Marianne Moore" (768-769), "Epistle for a Godson" (832-835), "Thanksgiving" (891); Auden, "Postscript: Christianity & Art" (handout)

Les Murray

Week 10 (Apr 8)

• Learning Human 1-98;"Some Religious Stuff I Know About Australia" (handout)

• Learning Human 99-200

Exam #2 due in LC#230 by Monday, Apr 19, 5pm

• Learning Human 201-224
• Fredy Neptune, Books 1-2

• Fredy Neptune, Books 3-5

Research Project, Book Reviews, or Poetry Projects due in LC#230 by Monday, May 2, 5pm

**We will meet the time of the final for our presentations.

Final (Exam #3) due in LC#230 by Monday, May 9, 5pm