| 1 | Introduction to the Course |
| 2 | Introduction to Metaphysical School of Poetry
John Donne: "The Flea", "The Good Morrow"
Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
AR: What Is Metaphysical Poetry?
Author(s): W. Bradford Smith |
| 3 | Introduction to the historical and cultural background
of the English Romantic Movement and Poetic Concepts
Early Romantic Poets: William Blake: "Songs of Innocence: The Lamb, The Chimney-Sweeper, Holy Thursday; Songs of Experience: The Tyger, The Chimney-Sweeper, Holy Thursday"
*AR: 1. Paul O'Flinn: How to Study Romantic Poetry (pps: 1-30)
2. Poetry and Design in William Blake- Northrop Frye |
| 4 | William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey", "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
AR: William Wordsworth, His Life and Poetry and His Visit to Ireland in 1829- Jim Cooke |
| 5 | S.T. Coleridge: “Kubla Khan”, "Christabel"
AR: Trevor H. Levere: Poetry realized in nature Samuel Taylor Coleridge and early nineteenth-century science (pp.1-8) |
| 6 | Later Romantic Poets
George Gordon Byron: "Don Juan", "Darkness"
AR: Poetry and Life: Lord Byron: Howard Nemerow |
| 7 | Percy Shelley:“Ode to the West Wind”, "Ozymandias"
AR: 1. Percy Bysshe Shelley 1822-1922- Gertrude Slaughter
2. WHAT SHELLEY MEANT- J. T. BARBARES |
| 8 | MIDTERM |
| 9 | John Keats: "Isabella, or the Pot of Basil", "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"
AR: John Keats: Poet, Patient, Physician: Hillas Smith |
| 10 | Introduction to Victorian Poetry
Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "Aurora Leigh" (Book 1&2)
AR: 1. Richard Cronin - Reading Victorian Poetry (pps: 1-44)
2. Elizabeth B. Browning: Elizabeth Belloc |
| 11 | Alfred Lord Tennyson: "The Lady of Shalott", "Tears, Idle Tears"
AR: All About Tennyson: Richard D. Altick
(QUIZ) |
| 12 | Robert Browning: "Porphyria's Lover", "My Last Duchess"
AR: The Poetry of Robert Browning:A Proposal for Reexamination
THOMAS J. COLLINS |
| 13 | Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: "Mary's Girlhood (For a Picture)", "Found"
AR: 1. A Study of Matthew Arnold:
I. His Poetry-- Ludwig Lewisohn and Ludwig Lewishon
2. Sonnet—Image—Intertext: Reading Rossetti's "The Girlhood of Mary Virgin" and "Found"- BRIAN DONNELLY |
| 14 | Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market"
AR: Consumer Power and the Utopia of Desire:
Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market"- Elizabeth K. Helsinger |
