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Romantic Poetry

Undergraduate · Historical course

Spring 2005

This course examines readings of the major British Romantic poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Scott, Shelley, and Keats) and important fiction writers (Mary Shelley and Walter Scott). Attention is also given to literary and historical contexts.

Readings

  • Gordon, George, and Lord Byron. Selected Poems . New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0192840401.
    Required
  • Keats, John. John Keats: Complete Poems . Edited by Jack Stillinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0674154312.
    Required
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein . Edited by Marilyn Butler. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192833669.
    Required
  • Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poems . New York, NY: Dover, 1993. ISBN: 0486275582.
    Required
  • Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads . New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 041535529X.
    Required
  • Gray, Thomas. “Sonnet on the Death of Richard West,” “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,” “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” and “The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode.” In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 324-338. ISBN: 063120623X.
    Listed reading
  • Warton, Thomas. “The Pleasures of Melancholy.” In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 368-374. ISBN: 063120623X.
    Listed reading
  • Smith, Charlotte. Sonnets 1-21 and sonnet 47. In The Poems of Charlotte Smith . Edited by Stuart Curran. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 13-27, 44. ISBN: 019507873X.
    Listed reading
  • DAY #: 4 · Topics: Readings by Wordsworth · READINGS: Wordsworth. “Advertisement” to Lyrical Ballads , “Simon Lee,” “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” “We Are Seven,” “The Last of the Flock,” and “The Old Cumberland Beggar.”
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  • DAY #: 5 · Topics: Readings by Wordsworth (cont.) · READINGS: Wordsworth. “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads , “The Idiot Boy,” “The Thorn,” “Expostulation and Reply,” and “The Tables Turned.”
    Reading assignment
  • DAY #: 6 · Topics: Readings by Wordsworth (cont.) · READINGS: Wordsworth. “Lines Written in Early Spring,” “Hart-Leap Well,” “Michael,” “The Brothers,” and “Nutting.”
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  • DAY #: 7 · Topics: Readings by Coleridge · READINGS: Coleridge. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
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  • Thelwall, John. “Lines Written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on the 27th of July, 1797; during a long excursion, in quest of a peaceful retreat,” and “To the Infant Hampden. – Written during a sleepless night. Derby. Oct. 1797.” In Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement . 1801. Reprinted by Oxford, UK: Woodstock Books, 1989, pp. 125-129, 140-141. ISBN:1854770144.
    Listed reading
  • DAY #: 9 · Topics: Readings by Coleridge (cont.) · READINGS: Conversation poems (cont.), incl. Coleridge. “A Letter to Sara Hutchinson.”
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  • DAY #: 10 · Topics: Readings by Keats · READINGS: Keats. “Sleep and Poetry,” and “To My Brother George.”
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  • DAY #: 11 · Topics: Readings by Keats (cont.) · READINGS: Keats. “Odes.”
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  • DAY #: 12 · Topics: Readings by Keats (cont.) · READINGS: Keats. “Odes.”
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  • Hazlitt, William. “On Poetry in General.” In Selected Writings. Edited by Jon Cook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 308-323. ISBN: 0192817345.
    Listed reading
  • DAY #: 14 · Topics: Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley · READINGS: Shelley. “Julian and Maddalo,” and “Ozymandias.”
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  • DAY #: 15 · Topics: Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley · READINGS: Shelley. “A Defence of Poetry,” “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,” and “Epipsychidion.”
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  • DAY #: 16 · Topics: Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.) · READINGS: Shelley. “Ode to the West Wind,” “England in 1819,” “Song to the Men of England,” and “The Mask of Anarchy.”
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  • DAY #: 18 · Topics: Readings by Mary Shelley · READINGS: Shelley. Frankenstein .
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  • DAY #: 19 · Topics: Readings by Mary Shelley (cont.) · READINGS: Shelley. Frankenstein .
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  • DAY #: 20 · Topics: Readings by Byron · READINGS: Byron. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Canto I (st. 1-28), Canto III.
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  • DAY #: 21 · Topics: Readings by Byron (cont.) · READINGS: Byron. “Don Juan,” Cantos I-II.
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  • DAY #: 22 · Topics: Readings by Byron (cont.) · READINGS: Byron. “Don Juan,” Cantos X-XI.
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  • DAY #: 23 · Topics: Readings by Byron (cont.) · READINGS: Byron. “Cain.”
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  • DAY #: 24 · Topics: Readings by Byron (cont.) · READINGS: Byron. “Cain.”
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