Course Requirements:
4  papers:
1) a close reading of a primary work [2-4 pp]
2) a critical review of a recent scholarly work from the last 10 years about any work on the syllabus [5pp]
3) research paper proposal with bibliography [3 pages] You pick the topic.
4)  research paper [10-15 pp].

1 oral presentation/teaching practicum. You will plan and teach a portion of a class.

Regular attendance, engagement and active participation in discussions.

Required Texts

Complete JPGs of Blake's engravings for Marriage of Heaven & Hell,
from http://www.blakearchive.org/

Syllabus

T 1/15       Coleridge on Romanticism (146-148); Wordsworth  from Preface to Lyrical Ballads (573-581); Hazlitt on Romanticism (149-150)
Th 1/17     Blake, Songs of Innocence/ Songs of Experience (all the selections)

T 1/22     NO CLASS. Readings: Mellor and Matlak (31-144)
Th 1/24     Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell (287-293); complete plates from Blake Archive web site, see above for URL

T 1/29     Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (371-412)
Th 1/31    Coleridge, "Frost At Midnight"(697), "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (709). Close-reading paper due.

T 2/5     Coleridge, from Biographia Literaria, all selections (745-759); Coleridge "Kubla Khan" (729); Hazlitt, "Mr. Coleridge" (in Selected Writings); Mary Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (352)
Th 2/7     Wordsworth, Poems from Lyrical Ballads, ending with "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" (564-571)

T 2/12     Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 (624-634)
Th 2/14     Dorothy Wordsworth, from Journals (660-663)

T 2/19     Wordsworth, "Michael, a Pastoral Poem" (1800)
Th 2/21    Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence" (593)

T 2/26    Wordsworth, "The World is Too Much With Us" (596); "Ode (Intimations)" (603)
Th 2/28     Wordsworth from The Excursion (609-621); Jeffrey Review of The Excursion (157-8);   Hazlitt, "Mr. Wordsworth" (in Selected Writings)

T 3/5       Baillie, Introductory Discourse (439-458) and Count Basil, A Tragedy (458-494)
Th 3/7      Barbauld, "Eighteen Hundred and Eleven" (181-5)  Criticism Paper due.

T 3/12      NO CLASS
Th 3/14     Spring Break

T 3/19      Austen, Persuasion
Th 3/21     Persuasion; Austen letters (766-769)

T 3/26      Byron, Manfred (927-945);  Byron, " Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" (896)
Th 3/28     Easter break, no class

T 4/2      Shelley, Alastor, or the Spirit of Solitude (1054-1061); "To Wordsworth" (1062); "Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Buonaparte" (1062)
Th 4/4     Shelley, from Defence of Poetry (1167-1178) Proposal for Research Paper Due.

T 4/9     Shelley, "Mont Blanc" ( 1063-4 );  Coleridge, "Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamonix" (xerox)
Th 4/11     Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" (1257), "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (1261); Lockhart, "Cockney School of Poetry" (159-61)

T 4/16      Keats, "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," "To Autumn" (1295-98;1308); letter selections (1261-76)
Th 4/18     Hazlitt, Selected Writings

T 4/23     John Clare, "I Am," "The Peasant Poet," "The Mores," "Pastoral Poetry," "Winter Fields," "Cottage Fears" (1250-1253)
Th 4/25     Felicia Hemans, "The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers," "The Graves of A Household," "To the Poet Wordsworth," "Casabianca," "Evening Prayer at a Girl's School" (1225-27)

T 4/29
Th 5/3