LITS2002 POETRY II 2009-2010

MODULE TWO: LATE ROMANTICISM AND VICTORIAN POETRY
 

WEEK SEVEN: PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792-1822)
(Week of March 8)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "Mont Blanc" (1817)

• 07 A Brief Overview of Shelley's Poetry

• "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1817)

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

RECOMMENDED READINGS

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

PHILWEB RESOURCES

• Percy Bysshe Shelley

• Read the overview (07) of Shelley's poetry on your own.  Bring copies of the relevant poems to the class in question.

WEEK EIGHT: SHELLEY CONTINUED
(Week of March 15)
 

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)

• Print and bring the summary (08) of Shelley's literary theory to both lectures where we will read it carefully.

WEEK NINE: JOHN KEATS (1795-1821)
(Week of March 22)
 

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

• Read the overview (09) of Keats's poetry on your own.  Bring copies of the relevant poems to the class in question.

WEEK TEN: KEATS CONTINUED
(Week of March 29)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "Ode to Psyche" (1819)

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

• 10 Keats' Letters

• "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

• Print and bring the summary (10) of Keats' literary theory to the second lecture where we will read it carefully.

WEEK ELEVEN: NEO-ROMANTICISM: GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS (1844-1889)
(Week of April 5)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• "God’s Grandeur" (1877) / "Pied Beauty" (1877) /

• "Spring and Fall" (1880) / "[I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day]" (1918)

• "The Wreck of the Deutschland" (1875-1876)

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)

RECOMMENDED READINGS

PHILWEB RESOURCES

WEEK TWELVE: WHAT IS ROMANTICISM?
(Week of April 12)
 

REQUIRED READINGS

• TBA

• Overview of Romanticism [TBA]

• TBA

• Use the tutorial to examine any poems listed not already discussed.

RECOMMENDED READINGS

PHILWEB RESOURCES