Major British Romantic Poetry (Lecture)
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Course Title (Chinese): 英国浪漫主义诗歌 PKU Course Number: 04630640 Course Tile (English): Major British Romantic Poetry (Lecture) Class Length (hrs): 2, Course Credits: 3 Meeting Time: Tuesdays: 10:10-12:00 Classroom: TBD Professor: Paul Fry Title: Professor of English Note: 有意选课的同学,第一堂课请务必到场。所有选课学生的最终入选,由任课老师决定 Brief Description: A twelve-week lecture course discussing the major works (for the PKU students primarily the lyric works) of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Course Materials (predicted): The professor will either be teaching from a photocopied packet of materials or from: Romantic Poetry and Prose (Harold Bloom, ed., Oxford) Professor Background: Paul H. Fry is the William Lampson Professor of English and the director of Graduate Studies in the Department of English, Yale University. He has taught at Yale since 1971. He received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph. D. from Harvard. His primary areas of specialization are British romanticism, the history of literary criticism, contemporary literary theory, and literature in relation to the visual arts. His books relevant to this subject are: The Reach of Criticism: Method and Perception in Literary Theory (Yale, 1984), William Empson: Prophet Against Sacrifice (1993). A Defense of Poetry: Essays on the Occasion of Writing (Stanford, 1996), and (forthcoming Spring 2012); Theory of Literature, together with many articles. Course Requirements and Grade Breakdown: Calculation of grades: Classroom (i. e., discussion section) participation l5% (to include any additional reading or reading responses assigned in section); midterm exam l0%; two short papers each 25% (total: 50%); final exam 25%. These percentages will be the same for PKU students and Yale students, but the paper assignments will differ as follows: PKU students write two 800pp. papers; Yale students write two 1200-pp. papers. Syllabus: Week 1. Introductory. Defining Romanticism. The historical setting. A few passages on a handout. William Blake, “To Spring,” “To the Evening Star,” “The Lamb,” “The Tyger” (PKU students); The Book of Thel (Yale students). Week 2. Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper” (p. 20), “Holy Thursday” (p. 22), “The Chimney Sweeper” (p. 24), “Holy Thursday” (p. 24), “The Sick Rose,” “Ah! Sunflower”; from The Vision of the Last Judgment (p. 121) (PKU students); The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Yale students). William Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (pp. 594-611); poems pp. 127-30, “Simon Lee the Huntsman” (as a handout) (PKU and Yale students). Week 3. Wordsworth, “Lines. Tintern Abbey,” poems pp. 152-57; Michael (PKU and Yale students) Wordsworth, “Resolution and Independence,” poems pp. 173-75, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, “Elegiac Stanzas” (PKU students); “Ode to Duty,” “The Solitary Reaper” (Yale students). Week 4. Wordsworth, The Prelude. For Yale students, all excerpts included in Bloom and Trilling (i. e., pp. 188-229). For PKU students, the following excerpts: pp. 188-211; pp. 222-29. First paper due. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria (pp. 645-54) with prose handouts, “Eolian Harp,” “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (as a handout) (PKU and Yale students) Week 5. Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight,” “Dejection” (PKU students); “To William Wordsworth” (Yale students). Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner (PKU and Yale students). Week 6. Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” “Christabel” (PKU students); “Limbo,” “Ne Plus Ultra” (Yale students). Midterm exam. Week 7. George Gordon, Lord Byron. Poems pp. 290-307 (PKU students); in addition for Yale students poems pp. 287-90. Byron, “Prometheus,” “Darkness,” and from Manfred (PKU and Yale students). Week 8. Byron, Don Juan, pp. 316-55 (PKU students); in addition for Yale students pp. 355-97. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Ozymandias,” Julian and Maddalo. (PKU and Yale students). Week 9. Shelley, “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,” “Mont Blanc” (PKU students). “The Sensitive-Plant” (Yale students). Shelley, from A Defense of Poetry (pp. 746-62) “To a Skylark,” “Ode to the West Wind” (PKU students); from Prometheus Unbound (Yale students). Week 10. Shelley, “Adonais,” The Triumph of Life (PKU and Yale students). Second paper due. John Keats. Over the remainder of the course read the Letters in Bloom and Trilling, pp. 764-86. For today: poems pp. 495-504 (PKU and Yale students). Week 11. Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (PKU students). Lamia (Yale students). Keats, Hyperion (PKU students); The Fall of Hyperion (Yale students). Week 12. Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,” “To Autumn” (PKU students); “Ode to Psyche,” “This Living Hand” (Yale students). Final Exam. .