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LITS2002 POETRY II
RECOMMENDED READINGS
Please find below a list of selected secondary
sources, i.e. commentaries on the period and the poetry which we have been
reading in this course. On any of the topics below, there
are numerous alternatives that are equally good or better. However, these
are the ones which I have found useful and which I accordingly recommend.
You are not required to read any of these suggestions (after all, they
are only recommended) and you will certainly not be able to read them
all, but you might find some of them very helpful in preparing
for the exam.
For obvious reasons, moreover, I cannot put all
the entries listed here on reserve in the Main Library. To locate
them, you will have to do some legwork on your own. Please, where
possible, try to cooperate with your fellow students and to share this
information with one another rather than hoarding and hiding the material in
question.
Please note that I may update this list as
new items come to my attention, after the term paper is announced and/or as
the exam draws near. Therefore, please check back on a regular
basis for suggestions.
LITERATURE, POETRY, AND SOME KEY CONCEPTS
IN LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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It is assumed that you have a basic familiarity with the
following key concepts defined in Chapter 1:
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1785 - c.1830)
Overviews of the Philosophical and Theoretical Tendencies
of the Period:
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General:
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Beiser, Frederick C. "The Enlightenment and
Idealism." Cambridge Companion to German Idealism.
Ed. Karl Ameriks. Cambridge: CUP, 2000. 18-36.
- Brown, Marshall. "Romanticism and Enlightenment." Cambridge Companion to British
Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
25-47.
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Kitson, Peter J. "Beyond
the Enlightenment: the Philosophical, Scientific and Religious
Inheritance." A Companion to Romanticism.
Ed. Duncan Wu. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. 35-47.
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Thorslev, Peter.
"German Romantic Idealism." Cambridge Companion to British
Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
74-94.
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Communication (Language):
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Education:
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History:
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Human Being
(Body, Mind and Self):
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Knowledge:
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Morality
(Ethics):
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Nature:
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Religion:
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Society
(Economics, Politics, Social Structure):
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Halliday, F. E. “The Industrial Revolution and
Napoleonic War, 1783-1830.” England: a Concise History.
London: Thames and Hudson, 1964. 153-171. [A BRIEF OVERVIEW]
- Hobsbawm, Eric.
The Age of
Revolution: Europe 1789–1848.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1962. Rpt. London: Abacus,
1997. [MUCH MORE DETAILLED]
Romantic Poetry:
Authorship:
- Bowra, C. M. The Romantic Imagination
.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1950.
- Excerpt rpt. as "The Romantic Imagination."
The Romantic
Imagination. Ed. John Spencer Hill. London:
Macmillan, 1977. 87-109.
Literary Form:
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Poetry:
- Genre:
- Language:
- Keach, William. "Romanticism and
Language." Cambridge Companion to British
Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran. Cambridge:
CUP, 1993. 95-119.
- Structure:
- Abrams, M. H. "The Correspondent Breeze: a Romantic
Metaphor."
Kenyon Review
19 (1957): 113-130.
- The Correspondent Breeze: Essays in English
Romanticism. New York: Norton, 1984. 25-43.
- Revised version in English Romantic Poets: Modern
Essays in Criticism. Oxford: OUP, 1975.
37-54.
- Abrams, M. H. "Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric."
From Sensibility to Romanticism. Ed. Frederick W.
Hilles and Harold Bloom. Oxford: OUP, 1965. 527-560.
- The Correspondent Breeze: Essays in English Romanticism. New
York: Norton, 1984. 76-108.
- Wimsatt, W. K. "The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery."
The Age of
Johnson. New Haven: Yale UP, 1949.
- Rpt. in The Verbal Icon.
103-116.
- Rpt. in English Romantic Poets:
Modern Essays in Criticism.
Ed. M. H. Abrams. Oxford: OUP, 1960.
Literary History / Intertextuality / Canonicity:
- Historicism:
- Abrams, M. H. "English Romanticism: the Spirit of the Age."
Romanticism Reconsidered: Selected Papers of the English
Institute. Ed. Northrop Frye. New York: Columbia UP, 1963.
26-72.
- The Correspondent Breeze: Essays in English Romanticism. New
York: Norton, 1984. 44-75.
- Butler, Marilyn. Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries: English Literature
and its Background, 1760-1830
. Oxford: OUP, 1980.
Cauldwell, Christopher. "English Poets: (II) the Industrial
Revolution" and "English Poets: (III) the Decline of Capitalism."
Illusion and Reality: a Study of the Sources of Poetry.
London: Macmillan, 1937. Rpt. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 1947.
88-98; 99-122.
- Rpt. as "English Poets at the Time of the Industrial Revoloution."
Twentieth Century Literary Criticism: a Reader. Ed. David Lodge.
London: Longman, 1972. 203-210.
- Rpt. as "The Bourgeois Illusion and Romantic
Poetry" in Romanticism: Points of View. Ed. Robert
F. Gleckner and Gerald E. Enscoe. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1962.
117-129.
Dawson, P. M. S. "Poetry in an Age of Revolution."
Cambridge Companion to British
Romanticism. Ed. Stuart Curran. Cambridge: CUP, 1993.
48-73.
McGann, Jerome J. The Romantic Ideology:
a Critical Investigation.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1983.
McGann, Jerome J. "Romanticism and its Ideologies."
Studies
in Romanticism 21 (1982): 573-599.
Williams, Raymond. "The Romantic Artist."
Culture
and Society, 1780-1950. New York: Columbia UP, 1958. 48-64.
- Rpt. in Romanticism: Points of View. Ed. Robert F. Gleckner and Gerald E.
Enscoe. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1962. 269-285.
The Tradition:
- Abrams, M. H. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic
Literature. New York: Norton, 1971.
- Abrams, M. H. "Neoclassic and Romantic." A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1993. 125-130.
- Bate, Walter Jackson. From Classic to Romantic:
Premises of Taste in Eighteenth Century England.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 1946.
- Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company
: a Reading of English
Romantic Poetry.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961.
Cobban, Alfred. Edmund Burke and the Revolt Against the
Eighteenth Century. London: George Allen and Unwin, 1960.
- "The Revolt Against the Eighteenth Century." Romanticism and Consciousness:
Essays in Criticism. Ed. Harold Bloom. +New York: Norton, 1970. 132-146.
Grierson, H. J. C. Classical and Romantic. Cambridge:
CUP, 1923.
- Extract rpt. in Romanticism: Points of View. Ed. Robert
F. Gleckner and Gerald E. Enscoe. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1962.
20-33.
The Reader:
Representation:
- Cooper, Andrew M. Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry
.
New Haven: Yale UP, 1988.
Hartman, Geoffrey. "Romanticism and Anti-Self Consciousness."
- Rpt. in Romanticism: Points of View. Ed. Robert F. Gleckner and Gerald
E. Enscoe. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1962.
Van Den Berg, J. H. The Changing Nature of Man.
New York: Norton, 1961.
Wasserman, Earl R. "The English Romantics: the Grounds of
Knowledge." Studies in Romanticism 4 (1964): 17-34.
Wolfson, Susan. The Questioning Presence: Wordsworth, Keats, and the
Interrogative Mode in Romantic Poetry. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1987.
THE 'VICTORIAN' PERIOD (c. 1830 - c.1890)
Overviews of the Philosophical and Theoretical Tendencies
of the Period:
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General:
- Gilmour, Robin.
The Victorian Period: the Intellectual and Cultural Context of
English Literature, 1830-90. London: Longman, 1993.
- Houghton, Walter. The Victorian Frame of Mind,
1830-1870.
Oxford: OUP, 1957.
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Being
(The Nature of Reality):
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Communication (Language):
-
Education:
-
History:
-
Human Being
(Body, Mind and Self):
-
Knowledge:
-
Morality
(Ethics):
-
Nature:
-
Religion:
-
Society
(Economy, Politics, Social Structure):
- Halliday, F. E. "Reform, Free Trade and Prosperity,
1832-1865." England: a Concise History. London: Thames and Hudson,
1964. 172-186.
- Halliday, F. E. "Gladstone and Disraeli, 1865-1886."
England: a Concise History. London: Thames and Hudson,
1964. 187-191.
- Hobsbawm, Eric. The Age of Capital, 1848-1875.
London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
Rpt. London: Abacus, 1997. [MUCH MORE DETAILLED]
Victorian Poetry:
- General Overviews / Surveys:
- Some Useful Anthologies:
- Bristow, Joseph, ed. Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2000. [IN BOOKSHOP]
- Lerner, Laurence, ed. The Victorians
.
New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978.
- Tucker, Herbert F., ed. A Companion to Victorian Literature and
Culture. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
- Selected Individual Works:
- Abrams, M. H. "Victorian Period." A Glossary of Literary Terms. New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1993. 153-154.
- Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics and Politics.
London: Routledge, 1993.
- Bristow, Joseph. "Reforming Victorian Poetry: Poetics after
1832." Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry.
Cambridge: CUP, 2000. 1-24.
- Latané, David E. "Literary Criticism." A Companion to Victorian
Literature and Culture. Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1999. 388-404.
- Lerner, Laurence. "Poetry." The Victorians.
Ed. Laurence Lerner. New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978.
- Richards, Bernard. English Poetry of the Victorian Period, 1830-90.
London: Longman, 1988.
- Slinn, E. Warwick. "Poetry." A Companion to Victorian
Literature and Culture. Ed. Herbert F. Tucker. Oxford:
Blackwell, 1999. 307-322.
Author:
Literary Form:
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Poetry:
- Genre:
- Langbaum, Robert. The Poetry of Experience: the Dramatic Monologue in
Modern Literary Tradition. New York: , 1957.
- Structure:
- Armstrong, Isobel. Language as Literary Form in Nineteenth
Century Poetry. Brighton: Harvester, 1982.
Literary History:
- Historicism:
- Harrison, Antony H.
Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture: Discourse and Ideology. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 1998.
- The Tradition:
- Harrison, Antony H.
Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems:
Intertextuality and Ideology. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P,
1990.
- Langbaum, Robert. The Modern Spirit: Essays on the
Continuity of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature.
Oxford: OUP, 1970.
Reader:
Representation:
- Shaw, W. David. The Lucid Veil: Poetic Truth in
the Victorian Age. London: Athlone, 1987.
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