Crunch Time! (English 1000G)

Hello, fellow English classmates. Thanks to our already overpaid, underworked, asshole public transportation workers striking, right in the middle of our exam period, I thought it might be more practical to set-up some notes online. I’m employing my blog rather than our facebook group because it’s the only quick way I can plug in all the hyperlinks I’ve included from my notes. For starters, I’m including a list of the 25 writers we’ve covered in class. If I’m missing anything, let me know. I’m going to try to include some basic points about each work over the 48 hours. If anybody wants to share their notes, or post a comment, by all means, go ahead.

Just to reiterate what’s going to be on the exam, it has two parts:

1. Identify a quote (Pick any 3 of the 9 provided – 10 marks each)
1. Identify the work it’s from
2. Identify the author
3. If it’s from Lear, identify the speaker
4. Briefly discuss its significance.
2. Essay Questions (Pick any 2 of the 8 provided – 35 marks each)
1. Take a look at the essay questions in the syllabus for this term.
2. Try re-reading your own essay for the term. The prof says there’s almost sure to be something from your essay you could re-use on the exam, unless you wrote a real stink-o essay.
3. For one bonus mark, spell “parallel.” Apparently, the prof has actually written this on exams in the past, just to mess with people. That’s why we love him, right?

A (more or less) chronological list of works read in the fall term of English 1000G, by author:

1. Aesop (620 – 560 BC)
1. The Wolf and the Mastiff
2. Petronius (ca. 27 – 66)
1. The Widow of Ephesus
3. Luke the Evangelist (0 – 84, supposedly)
1. The Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32)
4. John Donne (1527 – 1631)
1. A Hymn to God the Father
2. Song
3. A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
4. The Flea
5. Christopher Marlowe (1564 – 1593)
1. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (early 1590s)
6. Walter Raleigh (1552 – 1618)
1. The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (1599)
7. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616)
1. Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
2. Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes
3. Sonnet 73: That Time of Year
4. Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds
5. Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy
6. Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame
7. Sonnet 130: My Mistress’ Eyes
8. King Lear
8. Robert Herrick (1591 – 1674)
1. Delight in Disorder
2. To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
9. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
1. To his Coy Mistress
10. Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744)
1. An Essay on Criticism
11. Robert Burns (1759 – 1796)
1. A Red, Red Rose (1794)
12. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850)
1. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
13. John Keats (1795 – 1821)
1. La Belle Dame Sans Marci
14. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
1. Sonnet XLIII: How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways…”
15. Robert Browning (1812 – 1889)
1. My Last Duchess
16. Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888)
1. Dover Beach (1867)
17. Kate Chopin (1851-1904)
1. The Story of an Hour (1894)
18. Alfred Edward Housman (1859 – 1936)
1. One and Twenty
19. Stephen Crane (1871 – 1900)
1. War is Kind
20. Robert Frost (1874 – 1963)
1. Mending Wall (1914)
2. After Apple Picking (1914)
3. The Road Not Taken (1916)
4. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1922)
5. Dust of Snow (1923)
21. Robert Graves (1895 – 1985)
1. Symptoms of Love
22. Ernest Hemingway (1899 – 1961)
1. Excerpt - see the first comment in the comments section below. (Thanks, Becky!)
23. Robert Hayden (1913 – 1980)
1. Those Winter Sundays
24. Anthony Hecht (1923 – 2004)
1. The Dover Bitch (1967)
25. Billy Collins (1941 – not quite dead yet)
1. Introduction to Poetry

Supplementary:

Our professor made mention of this essay in class, but we are not officially responsible for it. Still, if you haven’t read it, I recommend you give it a read, after the exam of course:

Politics and the English Language (1946) by George Orwell (1903 – 1950)