Description
Emphasis on the major poetry of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with selected readings from other poets, prose writers, and dramatists of the period.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, the 1818 Text. Ed. Marilyn Butler. NY: Oxford UP, 1998.

Curran, Stuart, ed.  The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1993. (available around midterm)

Required Texts on Paper and Electronic Library Reserve, and on the Web
Abrams, M. H. Natural Supernaturalism. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971. (introduction will be on e-reserve by midterm, full text on shelf reserve)

McGann, Jerome. The Romantic Ideology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983. (introduction will be on e-reserve by midterm, full text on shelf reserve)

The Blake Archive http://www.blakearchive.org/

Recommended Resources
The Voice of the Shuttle, Romanticism pages  http://vos.ucsb.edu/  --> literature (in English)--> Romantics-->  a wealth of links to many resources

Romantic Circles  http://www.rc.umd.edu/   Romantic Circles is a refereed scholarly Web site devoted to the study of Romantic-period literature and culture.
English Poetry Database, 600-1900. Essentially the complete poetic canon in English   http://www.lib.ncsu.edu  then follow these links: ---> Database Finder--> E-->
Oxford  English Dictionary (OED)   http://www.lib.ncsu.edu  ---> Database Finder--> under letter 'O'

Course Requirements: 3 papers (5 pp=10% 7 pp =20% 10-12 pp=25%)= 55%;
Midterm exam (20%) attendance (10%) participation (15%)     Percentages for each required graded category are figured via a percentage of a 12-pt. scale in which an A+ =12 and an F=0 points. For example, a B+ on paper 1 would net you 9 x .10 or .9 points.  Or, a C on participation nets you 5 x .15 or .75
I then add up the percentage points for each required category to determine your grade.  For example, an 8.2 final score = B for the class.

Participation includes your grades on periodic quizzes, and your coming to class prepared, having done the readings and being able to talk about them intelligently.

You must complete all the required work to pass the class.

Attendance: You are allowed 3 absences. If you are absent, unexcused, more than 3 times over the course of the semester, your absences will count progressively against your final grade.

Plagiarism: Anyone convicted will receive an F for the paper, or the course at my discretion. And yes, I have caught people in the past.

Late Papers: Papers received ONE class session late will be accepted but docked a full grade. No late papers accepted after one class session late.

Disabilities: Reasonable accommodations will be made for students with verifiable disabilities. In order to take advantage of available accommodations, students must register with Disability Services for Students at 1900 Student Health Center, Campus
            Box 7509, 515-7653. http://www.ncsu.edu/dss/

                                                            READINGS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Except for Frankenstein (Oxford paperback) all readings are keyed to pages in Romanticism, an Anthology.

M Jan. 10  Introduction to the Romantic Period (1789-1832)

            First-Generation Romantics on Art
W Jan. 12 Wordsworth, Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads (pp. 191-2 ); selections from Preface to Lyrical Ballads (pp. 357-63); Baillie, from Introductory Discourse to her Plays on the Passions (p. 154); Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria (pp. 525-27)

             Revolution and Reactions
F Jan. 14 All of the readings from Price, Burke, Paine, Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Williams, and Mackintosh listed at the bottom of p. xxiii in Romanticism, an Anthology

F Jan. 21 Blake, Songs of Innocence (all poems, pp. 60-70); For engravings to all of the Songs of Innocence and Experience, and other Blake works go to the Blake Archive at
http://www.blakearchive.org/

W. Jan. 26 Blake, Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, cont.

F. Jan 28  Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (p. 84-94)  

W. Feb. 2 Blake, The Book of Thel (pp. 57-60); On your CD-Rom go to Index--> Blake--> Thel to see the engravings for this illuminated book.  First Paper Due

            William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads of 1798
F. Feb. 4  Professor away at conference. Read ALL of Lyrical Ballads, pp. 189-164.

W. Feb. 9  Coleridge Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (pp. 192-209)

F. Feb. 11 Wordsworth,  Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (pp. 265-69)

W. Feb. 16  Coleridge, Kubla Khan (pp. 522-4)

F. Feb. 18 Hazlitt, My First Acquaintance with Poets (pp. 600-610); Mr. Coleridge (pp. 611-17).

M. Feb. 21 Crabbe, Peter Grimes (pp. 37-44); Wollstonecraft, On Poverty (pp. 141-2); Dyer, from Complaints of the Poor of England (p. 45)

W. Feb. 23 All readings on slavery from Barbauld, More, Yearsley, Southey, as listed on p. xxiv in Romanticism, an Anthology

F. Feb. 25 Midterm exam

M. Feb. 28 Byron, Prometheus (pp. 708-9) Darkness (pp. 716-7)

W. March 2 Byron, Manfred, A Dramatic Poem, Act I (pp. 718-27)

F. March 4 Byron, Manfred, Acts II-III (pp. 728-51)

M. March 7 NO CLASS, SPRING BREAK      Read Frankenstein

W. March 9 NO CLASS, SPRING BREAK

F. March 11 NO CLASS, SPRING BREAK

W. March 16 Frankenstein cont.

F. March 18, Frankenstein cont. Reviews on CD-ROM of Frankenstein: index-->M Shelley-->reviews

M. March 21 Shelley, Alastor (pp. 824-840) 

W. March 23 Alastor cont.

F. April 1 Shelley, from A Defence of Poetry (pp. 944-56)   Second Paper Due

M. April 4 Keats, On First Looking into Chapman's Homer (p., 1012); On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again (p. 1020)

W. April 6 Keats, from Endymion (pp. 1013-1017)

F. April 8 Lockhart, Review of Keats, in The Cockney School of Poetry (pp. 1006-8)

M. April 11 Keats, Lamia (pp. 1064-1080)

W. April 13 Keats, Ode to Psyche (p. 1056); Tighe, Psyche, or The Legend of Love (pp. 444-6)

F. April 15 Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn  (p. 1060); To Autumn (p. 1080)

M. April 18 Abrams, Introduction to Natural Supernaturalism

W. April 20, McGann, Introduction to The Romantic Ideology

F April 22, essays from The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism