Text Box: Old English Professor F. Anne Payne TTh 12:30 - 1:50 Reg. No. 448395 (Permission of Instructor) Text Box: 302 Text Box: For nearly 900 years of its history, poetry in English was alliterative poetry, relying on initial rhyme and stress patterns, rather than end rhyme and syllable count. In this semester, we will be studying the great minor poems of Old English, the first recorded English poem, “Caedmon’s Hymn,” the war hymn, “The Battle of Brunanburg,” the dream vision called “The Dream of the Rood,” the minor epic, “The Battle of Maldon,” and three elegies: “The Wanderer,” “The Seafarer,” and “Deor.” The course includes work with essential grammar and vocabulary; translation of a few prose passages, the runic futhorc, manuscript reading, memory systems. One short paper; quizzes on vocabulary and translation; final examination. Previous experience with learning a language is essential, especially Latin or German. Permission of instructor required. This is a University Honors course. This course satisfies an earlier literature requirement. Text Box: Chaucer Professor F. Anne Payne TTh 9:30 - 10:50 Reg. No. 361040 Text Box: 303 Text Box: Chaucer is a satirist who writes in the tradition of Encyclopedic Satire (also called Menippean Satire after Menippus of Gadera who invented it in the third century B.C.). We will be reading and discussing both matter and form in The Canterbury Tales, and The Decameron by Boccaccio. This is a lot of reading of very funny (for the most part) material. Format: Lecture/discussion. One six-page paper; two hourlies; sporadic factual and translation quizzes. Attendance is required. Required text for Chaucer is L. Benson, editor, The Riverside Chaucer. The Decameron is a Penguin edition. This course satisfies an earlier literature requirement.