English IV Honors

Mrs. Stowe	Suffield's Homepage
Syllabus	Pope's Rape of the Lock
The Iliad	Swift's Gulliver's Travels
Neoclassicism	Wordsworth
Romanticism	Coleridge
Mary Shelley	Second Generation of Romantics
Charles Dickens	Modernism
Virginia Woolf	William Butler Yeats
John Synge	Archival web pages from Mr. Sullivan's 2001-02 class

Course Perspective

This is a year-long course designed for students with advanced skills who will take full advantage of a challenging and rich curriculum. The course focuses on critical analysis of the readings and on the articulate expression of original ideas through writing and class discussion. After beginning with Lattimore's translation of The Iliad, English IV Honors picks up where English III Honors concluded. Students will approach the Neoclassic age through The Rape of the Lock and Gulliver's Travels. These are followed by the early Romantics Wordsworth and Coleridge. By spring term the course has moved into the twentieth century with such representative figures as T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats.

Prerequisite: permission of the Department Chair.