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Literature 12 is a guided intellectual tour through the development of the English Language from the Anglo-Saxon period to present day. Students learn about the impact of historical events, artistic movements, and philosophical and scientific developments on English Literature. Students also learn about the life and times of the major authors, develop an appreciation of the major works themselves, and, hopefully, gain an intrinsic life-long love of literature.
Literature 12 is broken down into four main units: Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Literature; Renaissance and 17th Century Literature; 18th Century and Romantic Literature; and Victorian and 20th Century Literature. Students study the following works: Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, "Bonnie Barbara Allan," Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wyatt's "Whoso List to Hunt," Marlowe's "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Shakespeare's Sonnet 29, 116, 130, and Hamlet, Donne's "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" and "Death be not Proud...", Herrick's "To the Virgins," Milton's "On His Blindness" and Paradise Lost, Pepys' "The Fire of London," Chudleigh's "To the Ladies," Pope's "Rape of the Lock," Swift's "A Modest Proposal," Burn's "To a Mouse," Blake's "The Tyger" and "The Lamb," Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Wordsworth's "My Heart Leaps Up," and "The World Is Too Much with Us," Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Byron's "Apostrophe to the Ocean," Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind," Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" and "When I Have Fears...", Tennyson's "Ulysses," Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 43," Browning's "My Last Duchess," Bronte's "Song," Arnold's "Dover Beach," Hardy's "The Darkling Thrush," Dickinson's "Because I Could Not Stop For Death," Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est," Yeats' "The Second Coming," Eliot's "The Hollow Men," Thomas's "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night," Smith's "Pretty," and Atwood's "Disembarking at Quebec."
In addition, students will read and study: Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Dickens' Great Expectations, Wilde's The Importance of Being Ernest, Shaw's Pygmalion, Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Wharton's Ethan Frome.
Come experience the wonderful world of literature!
Mr. J. Donald
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