Week |
Topic |
Reading/Assignments |
Jan. 5 |
No class: MLA convention |
Jan. 10 |
Introduction |
Introduction |
Jan. 12 |
Pre-Romantic poetry |
Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" [Thomas Gray Archive]; Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village"; Bierce, "The Perverted Village" [Literature Online] |
Jan. 17 |
Romantic poetry |
Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads [Bartleby]; "London, 1802" [Bartleby]; "Resolution and Independence" [Bartleby]; "The Solitary Reaper" (189); "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" [ Bartleby] |
Jan. 19 |
Romantic poetry cont. |
Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" [Bartleby] |
Jan. 24 |
Romantic poetry cont. |
Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" [ Bartleby] |
Jan. 26 |
Romantic poetry cont. |
Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" [Bartleby] |
Jan. 31 |
Romantic poetry cont. |
Coleridge, "Kubla Khan: Or, a Vision in a Dream" [Bartleby]; "Dejection: An Ode" [ Bartleby]; "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" [ RCHS Hypertext] |
Feb. 2* |
Romantic poetry cont.: The Romantic Closet Drama |
Byron: Manfred [Bartleby] |
Feb. 7 |
Romantic poetry cont.: The Pathetic Fallacy |
Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" [ Bartleby]; "Adonais" [Bartleby]; "The Triumph of Life" [Bartleby]; "A Defence of Poetry" [Bartleby] |
Feb. 9 |
Romantic poetry cont.: Romantic Aestheticism |
Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" [Bartleby]; "Ode to a Nightingale" [Bartleby] |
Feb. 14 |
Romantic poetry cont. |
Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" [Bartleby]; "Ode to Psyche" [ Bartleby]; "To Autumn" [Bartleby]; "Ode to Melancholy" [ Bartleby]; "La Belle Dame sans Merci" [Bartleby]; "The Eve of St. Agnes" [Bartleby] |
Feb. 16 |
Victorian poetry: the Melancholic/Aesthetic School |
Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott" (107), "Ulysses" (131), "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (197), "The Kraken" (107) |
Feb. 21 |
Victorian poetry and Melancholy cont. |
Tennyson, "In Memoriam" (149); John Ruskin, "Of the Pathetic Fallacy" (607) |
Feb. 23 |
Victorian Aestheticism |
Tennyson, "In Memoriam" (149) |
Feb. 28 |
Victorian Aestheticism |
Aestheticism lecture |
Mar. 1 |
Victorian poetry: épater la bourgeoisie |
Swinburne, "The Triumph of Time" (446); "Hymn to Proserpine" (457); "Under the Microscope" (662) |
Mar. 6 |
Victorian poetry: épater la bourgeoisie |
Swinburne, "The Garden of Proserpine" (462); "Ave Atque Vale" (467) |
Mar. 8** |
Victorian poetry: Poetry as Sensation Literature |
Robert Browning, "My Last Duchess" (224); "Porphyria's Lover" (227); "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church" (230); "Love Among the Ruins" (233); "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" (251) |
Mar. 13 |
Victorian poetry: Poetry as Sensation Literature |
Robert Browning , "Bishop Blougram's Apology" (263); "Andrea del Sarto" (277); "Caliban upon Setebos; or, Natural Theology in the Island" (302) |
Mar. 15 |
Victorian poetry: Becoming Modern |
Matthew Arnold, "The Forsaken Merman" (349); "Dover Beach" (374); "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time" (616) |
Mar. 20-22 |
No class: Spring Break |
Mar. 27 |
Victorian poetry: Becoming Modern |
Matthew Arnold, "The Buried Life" (375); "The Scholar-Gipsy" (379); "Empedocles on Etna" (355); "Hebraism and Hellenism" |
Mar. 29 |
Victorian poetry: Victorian Aestheticism |
Walter Pater, "The Child in the House" [Periodicals Archive Online]
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Apr. 3 |
Victorian poetry: Aestheticism |
Walter Pater, "Preface" and "Conclusion" to The Renaissance (665) |
Apr. 5 |
Victorian poetry: Aestheticism and Purity |
Christina Rossetti , "Goblin Market" (412); D. G. Rossetti, "Jenny" (392) |
Apr. 10 |
Victorian poetry: Late Aestheticism |
Christina Rossetti , "Goblin Market" (412); D. G. Rossetti, "Jenny" (392) |
Apr. 12 |
Victorian poetry: Late Aestheticism |
D. G. Rossetti, "Jenny" (392) |
Apr. 17 |
Victorian poetry: Late Aestheticism |
"Michael Field," "La Gioconda" (504); "'Ah, Eros doeth not always smite'" (506); "'Sometimes I do despatch my heart'"; "Trinity" [Literature Online] |
Apr. 19 |
Victorian poetry: Kipling and Public Poetry |
"Recessional" (517); "The White Man's Burden" (518); "If" (518); "McAndrew's Hymn" [Literature Online] |
Apr. 24 |
Victorian poetry: Kipling and Public Poetry |
"Recessional" (517); "The White Man's Burden" (518); "If" (518); "McAndrew's Hymn" [Literature Online] |
April 29*** |
Due date of critical research paper |
no class |
May 1**** |
Take-home final exam due |
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* Due date of first critical paper.
**Due date of second critical paper.
***Due date of critical research paper.
****Due date of take-home final exam.
N.B. Page numbers above refer to The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, unless an online source is indicated. |