Everyone, I would like to apologize for the last-minute notice regarding my inability to hold class today. I informed the Department; however, they may not have gotten to the classroom in time therefore those who arrived most likely had to wait.
I suppose this is a good moment to instill the "15/20 minute rule." If I am not present after the aforementioned time and it has expired, then you are by all means free
to leave.
The Annotated Bibliography is to be turned in Wed.
You are responsible for the first two readings in Vathek, meaning the first eighty pages for Wed.
The last, and tenth, journal will be pushed
back until this upcoming Monday. I will update the schedule accordingly in due time.
I will be in 3308B tomorrow for office hours (9-6) should you like to receive your Prospectus early and discuss finals.
"it is not often that works of real genius appear. Whenever, therefore, a literary comet visits our hemisphere, it becomes a duty in us to point it out. As a pheneomenon of this sort we regard the history of Vathek." The moral, character portrayal and impressive knowledge of the manners and customs of the East were praised and the "sublime" was once more adduced: "A machinery, not only knew, but wild and sublime, seizes on the mind, and pervades the whole composition." In summary, "the author, and the diversities of writing, appears to display at pleasure the caustick quickness of Voltaire; the easy sportiveness of Ariosto; the sombrous grotesque of Dante; and the terrific greatness of Milton."
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