ENG 445-001

Syllabus:

Mon. Aug. 29: Introduction to class; introduction to the Romantic era

Wed. Aug. 31: BARBAUD: Washing-Day, On Female Studies

Fri., Sept. 2: SMITH: Written at the Close of Spring, To Spring. Discussion: Written work.

Mon. Sept. 5: Labor Day. Enjoy the holiday.

Wed. Sept. 7: BLAKE: Holy Thursday (Songs of Innocence), Holy Thursday (Songs of Experience)

Fri., Sept. 9: BLAKE: The Lamb, The Tyger, London

Mon. Sept. 12: BLAKE: The Chimney Sweeper (both)

Wed. Sept. 14: BLAKE: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Fri., Sept. 16: BLAKE: Marriage (continued)

Mon. Sept. 19: WORDSWORTH: Simon Lee, We Are Seven. DISCUSSION: PAPER #1

Wed. Sept. 21: WORDSWORTH: Her Eyes are Wild; DISCUSSION: Friday’s assignment

Fri. Sept. 23: WOLLSTONECRAFT: A Vindication of the Rights of Women

Mon. Sept. 26: Discussion of Wollstonecraft papers (small groups).

Wed. Sept. 28: WORDSWORTH: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, The Solitary Reaper

Fri. Sept. 30: WORDSWORTH: Mutability, The World is Too Much with Us

Mon. Oct. 3: FIRST DRAFT, PAPER #1, DUE (small-group reading of drafts)

Wed. Oct. 5: COLERIDGE: The Eolian Harp

Fri. Oct. 7: COLERIDGE: Christabel (FIRST DRAFTS RETURNED)

Mon. Oct. 10: COLERIDGE: Christabel

Wed. Oct. 12: Midterm exam (open book; all works considered: one essay).

Fri. Oct. 14: Break. Enjoy.

Mon. Oct. 17: COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan; Know what literary archetypes are (Jungian) Wed. Oct. 19: Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Fri. Oct. 21: COLERIDGE: Rime (cont.)

Mon. Oct. 24: HUNT: The Grasshopper and the Cricket. KEATS: On the Grasshopper and Cricket. (Write a paragraph on which of these two sonnets you think is the better one, and why; the poets wrote them as a contest with each other.) FINAL DRAFT, PAPER #2, DUE

Wed. Oct. 26: BYRON: Sonnet on Chillon, Prometheus (Think about what is Romantic about these poems.)

Fri. Oct. 28: BYRON: She walks in beauty; When we two parted

Mon. Oct. 31: Halloween poem. Papers returned.

Wed. Nov. 2: BYRON: On This Day I complete My Thirty-Sixth Year.

Fri. Nov. 4: HEMANS: The Image in Lava, Woman and Fame.

Mon. Nov. 7: MARY SHELLEY: Frankenstein. ( Read: Introduction and Volume I)

Wed. Nov. 9: Frankenstein cont. (Finish the novel)

Fri. Nov. 11: Final remarks on Frankenstein. DISCUSSION: Paper #2

Mon. Nov. 14: KEATS: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer, On Seeing the Elgin Marbles

Wed. Nov. 16: KEATS: Ode to a Nightingale

Fri. Nov. 18: KEATS: Ode on a Grecian Urn

Mon. Nov. 21: KEATS: La Belle Dame sans Merci

Wed. Nov. 23: Thanksgiving Break. Enjoy.

Mon. Nov. 28: KEATS: To Autumn. Final letter.

Wed. Nov. 30: FIRST DRAFT, PAPER #2, due. Small-group reading.

Fri. Dec. 2: P. B. SHELLEY: Mutability (two versions): which is the Romantic version?

Mon. Dec. 5: P. B. SHELLEY: Ozymandias

Wed. Dec. 7: DRAFTS RETURNED. Discussion: the writing process.

Fri. Dec. 9: Final remarks. Discussion: final exam.

FINAL DRAFT, PAPER #2, DUE ON DAY OF FINAL EXAM.

Have a good holiday and/or life