| DAY # | Topics | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | ||
| 1 | Introduction | |
| Week 2 | ||
| 2 | Readings by Thomas Gray and Thomas Warton |
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| 3 | Readings by Anna Seward and Charlotte Smith | Seward, Anna. Sonnets 1 and 28. In Original Sonnets on Various Subjects; and Odes Paraphrased from Horace. 2nd ed. London, UK: G. Sael, 1799, pp. 3, 17. |
| Week 3 | ||
| 4 | Readings by Wordsworth | Wordsworth. "Advertisement" to Lyrical Ballads, "Simon Lee," "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "We Are Seven," "The Last of the Flock," and "The Old Cumberland Beggar." |
| 5 | Readings by Wordsworth (cont.) | Wordsworth. "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, "The Idiot Boy," "The Thorn," "Expostulation and Reply," and "The Tables Turned." |
| Week 4 | ||
| 6 | Readings by Wordsworth (cont.) | Wordsworth. "Lines Written in Early Spring," "Hart-Leap Well," "Michael," "The Brothers," and "Nutting." |
| Week 5 | ||
| 7 | Readings by Coleridge | Coleridge. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." |
| 8 | Readings by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and John Thelwall | Wordsworth. "Tintern Abbey." |
| Week 6 | ||
| 9 | Readings by Coleridge (cont.) | Conversation poems (cont.), incl. Coleridge. "A Letter to Sara Hutchinson." |
| 10 | Readings by Keats | Keats. "Sleep and Poetry," and "To My Brother George." |
| Week 7 | ||
| 11 | Readings by Keats (cont.) | Keats. "Odes." |
| 12 | Readings by Keats (cont.) | Keats. "Odes." |
| Week 8 | ||
| 13 | Readings by Keats and William Hazlitt | Keats. "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream," and "Lamia." Hazlitt, William. "On Poetry in General." In Selected Writings. Edited by Jon Cook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 308-323. ISBN: 0192817345. |
| 14 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Shelley. "Julian and Maddalo," and "Ozymandias." |
| Week 9 | ||
| 15 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Shelley. "A Defence of Poetry," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," and "Epipsychidion." |
| Week 10 | ||
| 16 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.) | Shelley. "Ode to the West Wind," "England in 1819," "Song to the Men of England," and "The Mask of Anarchy." |
| 17 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron | Shelley. "Adonais." Byron. "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." (Sel.) |
| Week 11 | ||
| 18 | Readings by Mary Shelley | Shelley. Frankenstein. |
| Week 12 | ||
| 19 | Readings by Mary Shelley (cont.) | Shelley. Frankenstein. |
| 20 | Readings by Byron | Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Canto I (st. 1-28), Canto III. |
| Week 13 | ||
| 21 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. "Don Juan," Cantos I-II. |
| 22 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. "Don Juan," Cantos X-XI. |
| Week 14 | ||
| 23 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. "Cain." |
| 24 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. "Cain." |
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This section contains the required readings for the course. Readings are also listed by session.
Required Texts
Gordon, George, and Lord Byron. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0192840401.
Keats, John. John Keats: Complete Poems. Edited by Jack Stillinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0674154312.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Edited by Marilyn Butler. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192833669.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Dover, 1993. ISBN: 0486275582.
Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 041535529X.