| Date
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Topics and Readings
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| Sept 9
Sept 11 |
Course Introduction
Wu, Introduction; Seward, ‘Sonnet Written from an Eastern Apartment’ |
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Sept 14 Sept 16
Sept 18 |
Unit 1: Revolution
Cowper, from The Task, [On Slavery], ‘Sweet Meat has Sour Sauce,’ More, Slavery: A Poem Yearsley, ‘Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade,’ Barbauld, ‘Epistle to Wilberforce’; Southey, ‘The Sailor’ Price, from A Discourse on the Love of Country; Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France; Paine, from The Rights of Man; Godwin, from Political Justice; Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Man |
| Sept 21
Sept 23 Sept 25 |
Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Blake, The Book of Urizen |
| Sept 28
Sept 30
Oct 2 |
Williams, selections from Letters written in France and from Letters Containing a Sketch of the Politics of France, ‘The Bastille: A Vision’, ‘A Farewell, for Two Years, to England’
Thelwall, ‘Stanzas on Hearing for Certainty that we were to be tried for High Treason,’ ‘Dangerous Tendency of the Attempt to Suppress Political Discussion,’ ‘Civic Oration on the anniversary of the Acquittal’; Coleridge, ‘France: An Ode,’ ‘Fears in Solitude’, Wordsworth, ‘The Discharged Soldier’ Wordsworth, selections from The Prelude (1805) [books IX-X]; Shelley, The Mask of Anarchy, ‘To Wordsworth,’ ‘England in 1819’ |
| Oct 5
Oct 7 Oct 9 |
Wollstonecraft, selections from Vindication of the Rights of Woman; Yearsley, ‘Addressed to Sensibility’; Smith, Elegiac Sonnets; Barbauld, ‘The Rights of Women’
Blake, The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion Bryon, ‘She Walks in Beauty,’ ‘When We Two Parted,’ ‘Fare Thee Well!’; Keats, ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’; Lockhart, ‘Cockney School of Poetry’ [CRITICAL SUMMARY DUE] |
| Oct 12
Oct 14 Oct 16 |
No class (Thanksgiving)
Unit 2: Nature Warton, ‘Sonnet IX’; Barbauld, ‘A Summer Evening’s Meditation’; Burns, ‘To a Mouse,’ Thelwall, ‘Lines Written at Bridgwater’ Coleridge, letter to Dyer, ‘The Eolian Harp,’ ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’, ‘Frost at Midnight’; Wordsworth, The Ruined Cottage |
| Oct 19
Oct 21 Oct 23 |
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798)
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads (1798) |
| Oct 26
Oct 28 Oct 30 |
Wordsworth [D], selections from The Grasmere Journal: ‘A Cottage in Grasmere Vale,’ ‘After-recollection,’ ‘A Sketch’
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1800) and appendices Wordsworth, ‘Nutting,’ the Lucy poems, “The Brothers; A Pastoral Poem,’ ‘Michael’ |
| Nov 2
Nov 4 Nov 6 |
Wordsworth, ‘Two-Part Prelude’ [LIT REVIEW DUE]
Wordsworth, ‘Two-Part Prelude,’ manuscript excerpts from ‘The Recluse’ Smith, Beachy Head |
| Nov 9
Nov 11
Nov 13 |
Clare, “Sonnet,” “January,” “June,” “To the Snipe,” “The Flitting,” “The Badger,” “A Vision,” “I am”
No class (Remembrance Day) Unit 3: The Sublime Coleridge, ‘Kubla Khan’ ‘Dejection: An Ode,’ To William Wordsworth’;; Wordsworth, from The Prelude (Book XIII), ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality,’ ‘Elegiac Stanzas’; Shelley (M), ‘On Reading Wordsworth’s Lines on Peele Castle’ |
| Nov 16
Nov 18 Nov 20 |
Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage [Canto III] |
| Nov 23
Nov 25 Nov 27 |
Byron, ‘Darkness,’ ‘Prometheus,’ Manfred
Shelley (P), ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,’ ‘Mont Blanc,’ ‘To a Sky-Lark,’ ‘A Defense of Poetry’ Keats, selections from letters; The Odes of 1819, ’To Autumn,’ [FINAL PAPERS DUE] |
| Nov 30
Dec 2 Dec 4 |
Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes; Isabella, or the Pot of Basil, Lamia
Keats, ‘Hyperion: A Fragment ‘The Fall of Hyperion’ Hemans, ‘The Rock of Cader Idris,’ ‘Properzia Rossi,’ ‘To Wordsworth,’ ‘Despondency and Aspiration’ |