English 241: Major British Authors

This page will be under construction throughout the entire semester, so you will want to check here often for new material.  On this page you will find the class notes for each week. There are also links for the syllabus and the essay assignments -- when they are assigned.  The main purpose of this page, however, is to act as a supplement to the Norton Anthology of English Literature.  I will place links for many of the authors we will be studying on this page.  I will not attempt to list every World Wide Web page available for a particular author. (If you want a comprehensive WWW site that provides hundreds of literary links, check  The Voice of the Shuttle for starters).  I will choose sites that best provide background on the author and the time period in which he lived.  I will also choose a few sites that contain critical essays of the works we read for class.
  Course Syllabus                             Portfolio Assignment  

 Essay 1 Assignment

Essay 2 Assignment 

 Essay 3 Assignment  

Chaucer 

 Shakespeare 

 Milton 

 Swift 

Shelley

Exam Review Sheet

   

Class Notes

Week One

 Week Nine 

Week Two

Week Ten

Week Three

  Week Eleven

Week Four

Week Twelve

 Week Five 

 Week Thirteen 

Week Six

Week Fourteen

Week Seven

Week Fifteen

Week Eight

Weeks Sixteen and Seventeen

   
Links for British Writers Fall 1997

Oral Project Assignment for Fall 1997
Links for Group 1 Presenters
Links for Group 2 Presenters
Links for Group 3 Presenters
Links for Group 4 Presenters