| English 550 | Dr. Morillo |
| English Romantic Period | T, Th 2:35-3:50 |
| Fall 2003 | Office=Tompkins 249; phone: 515-4107 |
| email = morillo@unity.ncsu.edu | |
| web page syllabus = http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/morillo/public/55003.html | |
| Office Hours M W F 2:45-4 T 10-12; and by appointment | |
Course Requirements:
4 papers:
1) a close reading of a primary work [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 [15 pp].
1 oral presentation/teaching practicum. You will plan and teach a portion of a class.
Regular attendance, engagement and active, informed participation in discussions.
Recommended Online Resources
Voice of the Shuttle Romantics Page (Liu et al.) http://vos.ucsb/edu
(Literature in English--Romantics)
Romantic Circles http://www.rc.umd.edu/
Romanticism on the Net http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/
Romantic Chronology (Mandell) http://english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/
English Poetry, 600-1900 Database http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/eresources/databases.html#E
English Short Title Catalogue http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/eresources/databases.html#E
Oxford English Dictionary http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/users/m/morillo/public/oedhow.htm
T 8/26 Coleridge on Romanticism (146-148);
Wordsworth from Preface to Lyrical Ballads (573-581);
Baillie
from Introductory Discourse (439-458); Hazlitt on Romanticism (149-150)
Th 8/28 Readings: Mellor and
Matlak
(31-144) and Introduction to "The French Revolution and the Rights of
Man
(9-12); Burke from Reflections (13-19); Paine from Rights
of
Man (25-28); Wollstonecraft from Vindication (20-24) and
from
Origin
and Progress of the French Revolution (415-420)
T 9/2 Mallory, "Burke,
Boredom
and the Theater of Counterrevolution" (ELECTRONIC
RESERVE)
Th 9/4 Blake, Songs of Innocence/
Songs of Experience (all the selections)
T 9/9 Blake, Marriage of Heaven and
Hell
(287-293);
complete plates from Blake Archive web site, see above for URL;
Broadwell
essay on "The Tiger"
Th 9/11 Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights
of Woman (371-412); Wang, "The Other Reasons" (ELECTRONIC RESERVE)
T 9/16 Coleridge, "Frost At Midnight"
(697)), "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (709).
Th 9/18 Coleridge, from Biographia
Literaria, all selections (745-759); Coleridge "Kubla Khan" (729);
Mary Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (352) Close-reading
paper due.
T 9/23 Wordsworth, Poems from Lyrical
Ballads, ending with "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern
Abbey"
(564-571) Romanticism on the Net Special Issue on Lyrical
Ballads
Th 9/25 Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude
of 1799 (624-634); Dorothy Wordsworth, from Journals
(660-663)
T 9/30 Wordsworth, "Michael, a
Pastoral
Poem" (1800)
Th 10/2 Wordsworth, "Ode (Intimations)" (603)
T 10/7 Wordsworth, Lucy poems; Hazlitt,
"Mr.
Wordsworth" (ELECTRONIC RESERVE) Criticism
Paper
due.
Th 10/9 FALL BREAK NO CLASS
T 10/14 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein;
Carrie Bolte teaching.
Th 10/16 Frankenstein cont. Morgen
Reynolds teaching.
T 10/21 Frankenstein cont. Rauch "The
Monstrous Body of Knowledge" (ELECTRONIC
RESERVE) Therese Fowler
teaching
Th 10/23 Bryon, Manfred (927-945)
T 10/28 Shelley, "To
Wordsworth" (1062 ); Alastor,
or the Spirit of Solitude (1054-61)
Th 10/30 Shelley, A Defence of
Poesy
(1167-78)
T 11/4 Shelley, Mt Blanc (
1063-4
); Coleridge "Hymn Before Sunrise in the Vale of Chamounix" (xerox);
Ferguson,
"What the Mountain Said" (ELECTRONIC RESERVE) Proposal for Research
Paper
Due.
Th 11/6 Keats, "On First Looking into
Chapman's Homer" (1257), "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (1261);
Lockhart,
"Cockney School of Poetry" (159-61) Greg
Johnson teaching.
T 11/11 Keats, "Ode to Psyche" (1295);
"Ode on Melancholy" (1298); letter selections (1261-76) Jerry Moore,
Beth Graham teaching.
Th 11/13 Keats "Ode to a Nightingale"
(1296); "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1297); "To Autumn" (1308) Scot Barnett,
Gabe Morris teaching, Ann Powell teaching.
T 11/18 Shelley, Adonais (1140-48);
Wheatley,
"The Elegiac Reception of Adonais" (ELECTRONIC RESERVE)
Th 11/20 Barbauld, "Eighteen Hundred and
Eleven" (181-5)
Ashley Martin teaching.
T 11/25 John Clare, "I Am,"
"The Peasant
Poet," "The Mores," "Pastoral Poetry," "Winter Fields," "Cottage Fears"
(1250-1253) Jessica Orr
teaching.
Th 11/27 NO CLASS, THANKSGIVING
T 12/2
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); "Reading
Hemans,
Aesthetics, and the Canon: An Online Discussion"
http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/ Vonda
Easterling teaching.
Th 12/4