Undergraduate Courses
E477 English Poetry II
Prerequisite: E240This course will focus an the poetry of the major British Romantic and Victorian poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Tennyson, Browning and Arnold. A brief period at the beginning of the course will summarize the neoclassical literary context prior to the Romantic revolt. Selections from other poets, such as Burns, Elizabeth Barrett, Emily Bronte, Arthur Clough, Swinburne and Christina Rossetti also will be included.
The course will explore Romanticism in some detail, touching upon the Romantic myth, the theories of imagination, the revolutionary background, and Romanticism's relation to the 18th-century rationalistic world view. The last part of the course will be devoted to the Victorian reactions to Romanticism and to cultural crisis. Nineteenth-century poetry will be examined as representative of the great transitional period in western society marked by religious doubt and scientific advancement that leads to the modern world. Some time will be spent on poetic development with particular attention given to the dramatic monologue.
Selected pre-Romantic poetry: Cowper, Collins, Thomson, etc.
Blake: Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience, Marriage of Heaven and Hell, selections from the prophetic books.
Wordsworth and Coleridge: "Tintern Abbey," "Intimations Ode," selections from The Prelude; "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan,” etc.
Keats: "Eve of St. Agnes," The Odes, selected letters, etc.
Selections from Shelley and Byron, including parts of Don Juan.
Other Romantics, such as Burns.
Tennyson: selected poems and portions of In Memoriam.
Browning and Arnold: selected works, including "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time."
Other Victorians such as Elizabeth Barrett and Christina Rossetti.
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