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22 W introduction; Scottish history (to be interspersed throughout)
January 24 F Dr. Johnson, "A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland,"
selections from handout
January 27 Scottish Enlightenment, selections from handout (David
Hume, Francis Hutcheson, George Campbell, Adam Smith)
January 29 songs and ballads, "Anonymous," "The Four Marys,"
"Auld Robin Gray"
January 31 ----
February 3 Robert Burns, songs, "To a Mouse"
February 5 Burns, "Tam o' Shanter"
February 7 Burns, "Love and Liberty," "The Cottar's Saturday
Night"
February 10 Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian
February 12 art slides
February 14 Walter Scott, The Heart of Midlothian
February 17 Heart of Midlothian
February 19 Joanna Baillie, De Monfort, A Tragedy
February 21 Joanna Baillie, De Monfort, A Tragedy
February
24 assignment on language, "Varieties of
Scots"
February 26
James Hogg, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner
February 28 Private Memoirs
March
1st week dialect and Gaelic poems (Janet Hamilton, Ellen Johnston, Mairi
McPherson); Thomas Carlyle, selections
2nd week Christian Watt, diary (copies to be provided)
---- spring break
4th week Elizabeth Campbell; Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
April
1st week stories by Stevenson and Margaret Oliphant;
2nd week W. H. Henley, "In Hospital"; Lewis Grassic Gibbon,
"Sunset Song" from A Scots Quair
3rd week A Scots Quair
4th week ; poems and stories by Violet Jacob; Hugh McDiarmid, “A
Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle”
May
1st week as time permits, poems by Marion Angus, Rachel Taylor, HelenCruikshank,
Naomi Mitchinson, and other early 20th century poets; a leap forward to
a modern poet who writes in Scots, such as Jacquie Kay
examination week: final meeting in lieu of conventional exam;
critical essay due.
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