Date
Theme
Readings
Jan 18
The Anglo-Saxon poetic tradition
Introduction
Jan 20
The medieval poet
Widsith http://www.soton.ac.uk/~enm/widsith.htm
Deor http://www.kami.demon.co.uk/gesithas/readings/deor_me.html
Bede and Caedmon’s Hymn http://www.heorot.dk/bede-caedmon.html
Jan 25 – Feb 3
The poet at work
Beowulf http://www.heorot.dk/beo-intro-rede.html or http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/beowulf.html
Juliana http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Juliana_Kennedy.pdf
Judith http://www.elfinspell.com/Judith.html
Elene http://www.yorku.ca/inpar/Elene_Kennedy.pdf
The Dream of the Rood http://faculty.uca.edu/jona/texts/rood.htm
The Wanderer http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Wdr
The Sefarer http://www.anglo-saxons.net/hwaet/?do=get&type=text&id=Sfr
Layamon's Brut http://www.technicalmuse.com/3318/content/layamon_brut.htm
Yvain http://www.blackmask.com/olbooks/yvain.htm
Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell http://www.lone-star.net/mall/literature/gawain.htm
Sir Orfeo http://www.elfinspell.com/EERSirOrfeo.html
The original version: Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Bk 10, lines 1-106 http://classics.mit.edu/Ovid/metam.10.tenth.html
Sir Launfal http://www.elfinspell.com/MasonSirLaunfal.html
April 5 – 7
Arthur and the monastery
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/sggk.htm
April 12 – 14
Merit and the Eternal
The Pearl http://alliteration.net/Pearlman.html
April 19 – 21
Ordinary weaknesses
Mankynd http://faculty.winthrop.edu/kosterj/ENGL325/mankind.htm
April 26 – May 5
Tragedy or comedy?
Troilus and Criseyde http://tkline.pgcc.net/PITBR/English/Chaucerhome.htm
