E20B LECTURE NOTES

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Module One: the Romantics

Week 1:

• Lecture Notes #1A: Reading Poetry
• Lecture Notes #1B: The Socio-Historical Context of Romanticism

• Lecture Notes #1C: The Intellectual Context of Romanticism

• Lecture Notes #1D: Romantic Poetics

• Lecture Notes #1E: 'Longinus' on the Five Sources of the Sublime

• Lecture Notes #1F: The Ode / 'Greater Romantic Lyric'

Week 2:

• Lecture Notes #2: the Poetry of William Blake

Week 3:

• Lecture Notes #3A: the Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Lecture Notes #3B: Coleridge on Literary Genius and Genial Criticism

Weeks 4 and 5:

• Lecture Notes #4: the Poetry of William Wordsworth

• Lecture Notes #5: Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads

• Pictures of and Information on the Alps near Chamonix

• Pictures of and Information on Mount Snowdon in Wales

Week 6:

• Lecture Notes #6A: the Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Lecture Notes #6B: Shelley's "Defence of Poetry"

• Pictures of and Information on Mont Blanc

Week 7:

• Lecture Notes #7A: the Poetry of John Keats

• Lecture Notes #7B: Keats's Letters

Module Two: Political Perspectives on / Alternative Voices of the 19th Century

Week 8:

• Lecture Notes #8: Imperialism, Colonialism, Slavery, Racism, and 19th Century Poetry: an Overview

• Lecture Notes #8A: the Poetry of Robert Southey

• Lecture Notes #8B: the Poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Week 9:

• Lecture Notes #9A: Gender and 19th Century Poetry: an Overview

• Lecture Notes #9B: Romantic Women Poets (1785-1830)--we are not doing this topic

• Lecture Notes #9C: Victorian Women Poets (1830-1890)

• Lecture Notes #9D: the Poetry of Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Week 10:

• Lecture Notes #10: the Poetry of Christina Rossetti

Module Three: the Victorians

Week 11:

• Lecture Notes #11A: Victorian Poetry: an Overview

• Lecture Notes #11B: the Poetry of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Week 12:

• Lecture Notes #12: the Poetry of Robert Browning

Week 13:

• Lecture Notes #13: the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins--we are not doing this topic

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