LITS2002 POETRY II 2007  - 2008

MODULE TWO: LATE ROMANTICISM AND VICTORIAN POETRY
 

WEEK SEVEN: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
(Week of March 3)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• Recap of Module 1 & Prospectus for Module 2

• "Mont Blanc"

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

RECOMMENDED READINGS

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

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

WEEK EIGHT: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY CONTINUED
(Week of March 10)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "Mont Blanc" Continued

• "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty"

• 08 Shelley "A Defence of Poetry"

• Read those among the following which you did not read last week: "To Wordsworth" / "Ozymandias" / "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples" / "England in 1819" / "Mutability" / "Ode to the West Wind" / "To a Skylark"

RECOMMENDED READINGS

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

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

WEEK NINE: JOHN KEATS
(Week of March 17)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "When I have Fears" / "Ode to a Nightingale" / "Ode to Psyche"

• "Ode on a Grecian Urn" / "Ode on Melancholy"

• 09 Keats Letters

• "To Autumn" / "Bright Star" / "This Living Hand"

RECOMMENDED READINGS

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

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• John Keats (1795 - 1821)

WEEK TEN: VICTORIAN POETRY I
(Week of March 24)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam

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

• Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach"

RECOMMENDED READINGS

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
• Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)
• Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)

WEEK ELEVEN: VICTORIAN POETRY II: THOMAS HARDY
(Week of March 31)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "Hap" / "Neutral Tones" / "I Look into my Glass" / "Drummer Hodge" / "A Broken Appointment" / "The Darkling Thrush" / "The Ruined Maid" / "A Trampwoman’s Tragedy" / "One We Knew" / "She Hears the Storm" / "Channel Firing" / "The Convergence of the Twain"

• "Under the Waterfall" / "The Walk" / "The Voice" / "During Wind and Rain" / "In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’" / "He Never Expected Much" / "Afterwards" / "In Tenebris" / "Bereft" / "Shut Out That Moon" / "At Casterbridge Fair" / "New Year’s Eve" / "I Found Her Out There" / "In the Moonlight"

•  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)

RECOMMENDED READINGS

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)

WEEK TWELVE: VICTORIAN POETRY III: GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
(Week of April 7)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "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]" / "The Wreck of the Deutschland"

RECOMMENDED READINGS

• Read those among the following which you did not read last week: 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)

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

FOOTNOTES