PRIMARY READINGS

ARTICLES & READINGS
LECTURES

Homer, The Iliad (Introductory Lecture and summary) | Narrative intro | Patroclos Asks Achilles to be allowed to fight | Achilles' and Hector's single combat | The Death of Hector (MP3)

The Odyssey | Book 1 | Book 2 | Book 3 | Book 4 | Book 5 | Book 6 | Book 7 | Book 8 | Book 9 | Book 10 | Book 11 | Book 12 | Book 13 | Book 14 | Book 15 | Book 16 | Book 17 | Book 18 | Book 19 | Book 20 | Book 21 | Book 22 | Book 23 | Book 24 (MP3)

Stapleton, "Making the Woman of Him" (Othello)

Lecture on Homer's The Odyssey

Lecture on Virgil's Aeneid

Lecture on The Divine Comedy (audio only)

Introduction to Medieval Literature/Dante's Comedy (PP) Same in .PPT

Aristotle, The Poetics | Preface | Ch 1-3 | Ch. 4-5 | Ch. 6-8 | Ch. 9-13 | Ch. 14 | Ch. 15-16 | Ch. 17-19 | Ch. 20-21 | Ch. 22-24 | Ch. 25-26 (MP3)   Lecture on The Prince
Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death" | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 (MP3)   Lecture on Paradise Lost
Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (version 1)| "Kubla Khan" (version2) | The Rime of the Ancyent Mariner ; "The Pains of Sleep" ; Christabel (MP3)   Lecture on Lecture and Summary of Tartuffe | French Theater and Comedy | Comedy as Cure
Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion ; "London" (MP3)   Lecture on Paradise Lost
Keats, "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (MP3)   Lecture on Frankenstein
Bremer, Fredrika, A Diary (PDF)    
P.B. Shelley, Adonais (MP3)   Lecture on The Ancyent Mariner