RICHARD L. W. CLARKE

 

 

  

LITS2002 READING SCHEDULE MODULE TWO:
LATE AND NEO-ROMANTICISM

WEEK 7: NEO-CLASSICISM VERSUS ROMANTICISM: AN OVERVIEW

Required Readings:

You should read the items listed under this heading as they offer overviews of some of the key issues to be discussed this week.

Lecture 1: the Philosophical Context:

  • Marshall Brown "Romanticism and Enlightenment" (pp. 25-47 in Cambridge Companion to Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran)

  • Peter Thorslev "German Romantic Idealism" (pp. 74-94 in Cambridge Companion to Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran)

  • William Keach "Romanticism and Language" (pp. 95-119 in Cambridge Companion to Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran)

Lecture 2: the Aesthetic Context:

  • P. M. S. Dawson "Poetry in an Age of Revolution" (pp. 48-73 in Cambridge Companion to Romanticism, ed. Stuart Curran)

  • M. H. Abrams The Mirror and the Lamp passim

Tutorial:

  • We will use the tutorial this week to 'catch up' on any poems by Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge which we should have but have not read up to now

Recommended Readings:

Off-Line:

Though you are not required to read the items listed under this heading, these are some of the key texts to which I will be alluding in the lectures in an effort to paint a broad overview of the philosophical and aesthetic currents of the period.  To this end, it is highly recommended that you dip into them (or at least the notes thereon below) as much as you can. 

  • Lecture 1: the Philosophical Context:
    • Immanuel Kant The Critique of Pure Reason [1781] (see extract, (pp. 41-45 in Western Philosophy: an Anthology, ed. John Cottingham)
    • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Confessions [1781] (see extract, pp. 690-699 in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman and Charles Feidelson)
    • J. G. von Herder
      • Ideas Towards a Philosophy of the History of Man [1784-1791] (see extract, pp.34-49 in Theories of History, ed. Patrick L. Gardiner)
      • "On the Cognition and Sensation of the Human Soul" [1778] (pp. 187-243 in J. G. Herder: Philosophical Writings, ed. Michael Foster) (sometimes translated as "On the Knowing and Feeling of the Human Soul")
    • G. W. F. Hegel The Philosophy of History [1805-1806; 1830-31] (see extract, pp. 76-87 in Patrick Gardiner, ed. Nineteenth Century Philosophy; pp. 457-464 in The Modern Tradition, ed. Richard Ellman, et al.; also in folder) [on-line source]
    • Wilhelm Von Humboldt On Language: On the Diversity of Human Language Construction and its Influence on the Mental  Development of the Human Species [1836] (see selections pp.481-491 in Adams)
  • Lecture 2: the Aesthetic Context:
    • ‘Longinus’ On the Sublime [1st century CE?] (pp. 76-98 in Adams; pp. 138-154 in Leitch)
    • Edmund Burke A Philosophical Enquiry into Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful [1757] (see extract, pp. 298-306 in Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. Hazard Adams; pp.536-550 in Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. Vincent Leitch)
    • Edward Young Conjectures on Original Composition [1759] (see extract, pp. 329-337 in Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. Hazard Adams; pp. 427-437 in Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. Vincent Leitch)
    • Immanuel Kant The Critique of Judgement [1790] (see extract, pp. 374-)393 in in Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. Hazard Adams; pp. 499-535 in Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed. Vincent Leitch)
    • Hippolyte Taine History of English Literature [1863-1864] (see excerpt, pp. 608-620 in Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. Hazard Adams)

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WEEK 8: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792 - 1822): POETRY

Required Readings:

Lecture 1:

  • "Mont Blanc"

Lecture 2:

  • "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

Tutorial:

  • Read as many of the following as possible: "To Wordsworth" / "Ozymandias" / "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples" / "England in 1819" / "Mutability"

Recommended Readings:

Off-Line:

  • Watson, J. R.  "Shelley."  English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830.  London: Longman, 1985.  299-337.

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WEEK 9: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792 - 1822): PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY THEORY

Required Readings:

Lecture 1:

  • A Defence of Poetry [1821] (pp. 516-529 in Adams; pp. 699-717 in Leitch) [on-line source]

Lecture 2:

  • A Defence of Poetry [1821] (pp. 516-529 in Adams; pp. 699-717 in Leitch) [on-line source]

Tutorial:

  • "Ode to the West Wind" / "To a Skylark"

Recommended Readings:

Off-Line:

  • Watson, J. R.  "Shelley."  English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830.  London: Longman, 1985.  299-337.

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WEEK 10: JOHN KEATS (1795 - 1821)

Required Readings:

Lecture 1: Poetry

  • "Ode to a Nightingale" / "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Lecture 2: Philosophy and Literary Theory

  • Letters [1817-1818] (pp. 493-494 in Critical Theory Since Plato, ed. Hazard Adams)

Tutorial:

  • "Ode on Melancholy" / "To Autumn"

Recommended Readings:

Off-Line:

  • Watson, J. R.  "Keats."  English Poetry of the Romantic Period, 1789-1830.  London: Longman, 1985.  338-374.

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WEEK 11: VICTORIAN NEO-ROMANTICISM (c. 1830 - 1890)

Required Readings:

Lecture 1:

  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam: poems 50, 54, 55 56
  • Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"
  • Thomas Hardy "Hap" / "Neutral Tones" / "The Darkling Thrush" / "The Convergence of the Twain"

Lecture 2:

  • Gerard Manley Hopkins "God’s Grandeur" / "The Windhover" / "Pied Beauty" / "Spring and Fall" / "[As Kingfishers Catch Fire . . .]" / "[Carrion comfort]" / "[No Worst, There Is None] / "[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day]"/ "[My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On]" / "[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord]"
  • Henry David Thoreau "I am a Parcel of Vain Strivings Tied"
  • Walt Whitman Excerpts from Song of Myself

Tutorial:

  • Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" / "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church"

Recommended Readings:

Off-Line:

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WEEK 12: VICTORIAN NEO-ROMANTICISM CONTINUED: OTHER VOICES (c. 1830 - 1890)

Required Readings:

Lecture 1: Women's Poetry

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861) Sonnets from the Portuguese: 1, 43
  • Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) "Long Neglect Has Worn Away" / "Hope" / "Remembrance" / "The Prisoner" / "No Coward Soul is Mine"

Lecture 2: African American Poetry

NB I have swapped the readings for the tutorial with those for Lecture 2 (in addition to adding a few poems by Harper and Johnson).

  • Frances W. Harper (1825 - 1911) "Ethiopia / "The Slave Mother" / "Bury Me in a Free Land" / "Aunt Chloe's Politics" / "Learning to Read" / "Songs for the People" (in NAP and / or in Norton Anthology of African American Literature; see folder)
  • James Weldon Johnson (1871 - 1938) "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing' / "O Black and Unknown Bards" / "Fifty years" / "Brothers" / "The Creation" / "My City" (in NAP and / or in Norton Anthology of African American Literature; see folder)
  • Paul Dunbar (1872-1906) "We Wear the Mask" / "Ode to Ethiopia" / "Worn Out" / A Negro Love Song" / "The Colored Soldiers" / "An Ante-Bellum Sermon" / "Not They Who Soar" / "Sympathy" / "Douglass" / "Philosophy" / "The Poet" (in NAP and / or in Norton Anthology of African American Literature; see folder)

Tutorial: More Women's Poetry [read as much as you can]

  • Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) "Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!" / "There's a Certain Slant of Light" / "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain" / "The Soul Selects her own Society" / "A Bird Came Down the Walk" / "After Great Pain a Formal Feeling Comes" / "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" / "Because I Cold Not Stop for Death" / "As Imperceptibly as Grief" / "The Bible is an Antique Volume"
  • Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) "Song" / "Remember" / "Echo" / "In an Artist's Studio" / "Up-Hill" / "Passing Away, Saith the World, Passing Away" / "Amor Mundi"

Recommended Readings:

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END OF MODULE TWO

[you should be preparing for the final exam]

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