LIT 228 Great Poems of the English Language: The Romantics Professor Denise Gigante Thursdays, 7:00 – 8:50 pm
Blake Wordsworth Coleridge Shelley Keats
For William Blake, please see www.blakearchive.org: Works in the Archive à Illuminated Books (Title) à Click on a Copy. Tools provided for image enlargement and description, textual transcription, contrast and comparison, &c..
All page numbers, otherwise, are from the following editions: William Wordsworth, Selected Poems, Penguin Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Selected Poetry, Penguin Percy Bysshe Shelley, Selected Poetry, Penguin John Keats, Selected Poems, Penguin
Week 1 William Blake: Illuminated Poetry (1/14) Songs of Innocence and Experience (www.blakearchive.org)
Week 2 William Blake: Illuminated Poetry (1/21) The Book of Thel (Copy J); Visions of the Daughters of Albion (Copy G)
Week 3 William Wordsworth: Poems in Blank Verse (1/28) The Ruined Cottage (3); The Old Cumberland Beggar (19); Lines…Above Tintern Abbey (61); Nutting (75); Michael (114)
Week 4 W. Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads, Spenserian Verse, and Sonnets (2/4) Lyrical Ballads: The Thorn (30); Anecdote for Fathers (54); We are Seven (56); Expostulation and Reply (59); The Tables Turned (60); Lucy Poems: A Slumber did my spirit seal (71); She dwelt among th’ untrodden ways (71); Strange Fits of Passion (72); Lucy Gray (73); Three Years She Grew (77) Spenserian Verse: Resolution and Independence (137) Sonnets: Composed by the Sea-Side (148); It is a Beauteous Evening (149); Composed Upon Westminster Bridge (150); London, 1802 (151); Nuns Fret Not (151)
Week 5 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Ballads (2/11) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (81); Christabel (fragment) (101); The Ballad of the Dark Ladié (121); Love (123)
Week 6 S. T. Coleridge: Conversation Poems & Visionary Fragment (2/18) Conversation Poems: The Eolian Harp (36); Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement (38); This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (43); Frost at Midnight (46); Fears in Solitude (49); The Nightingale (56) Visionary: Kubla Khan, or A Vision in a Dream, A Fragment, including Coleridge’s Preface (229)
Week 7 Percy B. Shelley: Sonnets and Hymns (2/25) Sonnets: To Wordsworth (45); Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte; Ozymandias (46); Lift Not the Painted Veil (132); England in 1819 (133) Hymns: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (71); Mont Blanc (74); Hymn of Pan (215)
Week 8 P. B. Shelley: Quest Romance and Poems in Terza Rima (3/3) Quest Romance: Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude (48) Terza Rima Ode & Visionary Epic Fragment: Ode to the West Wind (160); The Triumph of Life (300)
Week 9 John Keats: Sonnets and Odes (3/10) Sonnets: O Solitude (5); To My Brothers (12); After Dark Vapours (33); To Leigh Hunt (34); On Seeing the Elgin Marbles (34); On the Sea (35); To Mrs. Reynolds’ Cat (99); On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again (99); When I have Fears (100); O Thou Whose Face (102); The Human Seasons; (102) Why Did I Laugh? (181); To Sleep (186); If By Dull Rhymes (186); On Fame, I & II (189–90); Bright Star (219); I Cry Your Mercy (237) Odes: Ode to Psyche (187); Ode on a Grecian Urn (191); Ode to a Nightingale (193); Ode on Melancholy (195); Ode on Indolence (196); To Autumn (219)
Week 10 John Keats: Epic Fragments (3/17) Epic: Hyperion, a Fragment (140); The Fall of Hyperion, A Dream (221-35)
Students taking the course for Credit/No Credit must attend at least nine class sessions.
Students taking the course for a letter grade must attend at least nine class sessions and turn in a final paper of 12 pp. on a topic of their choice. Due by 3/24.