1:00-2:15P    MW    WH114

This section is an Intensive Writing section and requires registration
in COAS W333.

In this course we will read accounts of voyages to Hell, Heaven, and
many imaginary and real places in between. Beginning with Homer's
seventh century B.C. account of Odysseus' complicated boyage (and his
even more complicated arrival) home after the Trojan War, and ending
with Voltaire's satirical analysis of the treats (robbery, rape,
cannibalism, slavery) awaiting the modern, eighteenth century traveler
through the "Best of All Possible Worlds," we will read ten great
accounts of fantastic voyages. The central work in the course will be
Dante's Divine Comedy, which describes a journey down into the central
pit of hell, then up to the top of heaven, in the most brilliant and
compelling poem in any language. In the final week we will read and
discuss contemporary accounts of imaginary voyages, written by each
member of the class.

COURSE TESTS: Homer,The Odyssesy trans. Robert Fitzgerald; Virgil, The
Aeneid, trans. Robert Fitzgerald; Dante: The Inferno; The Purgatorio;
The Paradiso; trans by John Ciardi; Shakespeare: The Tempest; Bunyan,
Pilgrim's Progress; Swift: Gulliver's Travels; Voltaire, Candide