LITS2002 POETRY II 2007  - 2008

MODULE TWO: LATE ROMANTICISM AND VICTORIAN POETRY
 

WEEK SEVEN: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
(Week of March 9)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "Mont Blanc" (1817)

• 07 A Brief Overview of Shelley's Poetry¹

• "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817)

• "Ode to the West Wind" (1820) / "Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples" (1824)²

RECOMMENDED READINGS

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

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

WEEK EIGHT: SHELLEY CONTINUED
(Week of March 16)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

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

• 08 Shelley "A Defence of Poetry"

• A Defence of Poetry CONTINUED

• Read as many of the following as possible: "To Wordsworth" / "Ozymandias" (1818) / "England in 1819" (1819) / "Mutability" (1821) / "To a Skylark" (1820) (read the ones not done on your own)

RECOMMENDED READINGS

• Abrams, M. H.  "Varieties of Romantic Theory: Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, and Others."  The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition.  Oxford: OUP, 1957.  125-155.

  • "Shelley and Romantic Platonism."  126-132.

• Wimsatt, William, and Cleanth Brooks.  "Peacock vs. Shelley: Rhapsodic Didacticism."  Literary Criticism: a Short History.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957.  412-431.

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822)

WEEK NINE: JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
(Week of March 23)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "Ode to a Nightingale" (1819)

• 09 A Brief Overview of Keats' Poetry

• "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1819)

• "Ode on Melancholy" (1819)

Read on your own "Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art" / "This Living Hand" / "To Homer" / "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" / "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"

RECOMMENDED READINGS

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

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• John Keats

WEEK TEN: KEATS CONTINUED
(Week of March 30)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "Ode to Psyche" (1819)

• Letters (1817-1818) (pp. 493-494 in Adams)

• 10 Keats' Letters on Literature

• "To Autumn" (1819)

RECOMMENDED READINGS

• Abrams, M. H.  "Varieties of Romantic Theory: Shelley, Hazlitt, Keble, and Others."  The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition.  Oxford: OUP, 1957.  125-155.

  • "Longinus, Hazlitt, Keats and the Criterion of Intensity."  132-138.

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• John Keats

WEEK ELEVEN: MID-CENTURY VICTORIAN POETRY:
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON (1809 - 1892)
ROBERT BROWNING (1812 - 1889)
(Week of April 6)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam (1833; 1850)

• 11A A Brief Overview of Tennyson's Poetry

• Robert Browning "The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxed's Church" (1845)

• 11B A Brief Overview of Browning's Poetry

• Robert Browning "My Last Duchess" (1842)

Read the following poems by Browning on your own: "Home Thoughts from Abroad" / "Soliloguy of the Spanish Cloister" / "Fra Lippo Lippi" / "Andrea Del Sarto" / "Two in the Campagna"

RECOMMENDED READINGS

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
• Robert Browning (1812 - 1889)

WEEK TWELVE: LATE VICTORIAN POETRY:
MATTHEW ARNOLD (1822-1888)
THOMAS HARDY (1840-1928)
GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
(Week of April 13)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• Matthew Arnold "Dover Beach" (1867)
• Thomas Hardy: "Neutral Tones" (1867) / "Hap" (1898) / "The Darkling Thrush" (1902)

• 12A A Brief Overview of Hardy's Poetry

• Gerard Manley Hopkins: "God’s Grandeur" (1877) / "Pied Beauty" (1877) / "Spring and Fall" (1880) / "[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day]" (1918)

Read the following poems by Hopkins on your own: "The Windhover" (1877) / "[Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord]" (1889) / "[As Kingfishers Catch Fire . . .]" (1918) / "[Carrion Comfort]" (1918) / "[No Worst, There Is None]" (1918) / "[My Own Heart Let Me Have More Pity On]" (1918)

• 12B A Brief Overview of Hopkin's Poetry [TBA]

• Hopkins "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (1875-1876)
• Hardy "The Convergence of the Twain" (1915)

RECOMMENDED READINGS

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888)
• Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
• Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844 - 1889)

FOOTNOTES
 

1. Remember the caveats from Module 1 concerning these overviews of the poetry of the poets in question.

2. Note the change to the readings for the tutorial this week.