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Cary
Plotkin |
Synoptic Syllabus
I. The End of an Order
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Sept. |
4 |
Introduction: Romanticism
and Revolution |
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6 |
The Neo-classical Mould: The Measure of Tradition. Alexander Pope: An Essay on Criticism [1711], An Essay on Man [1733] |
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11 |
Pre-romantic eruptions: “Sturm und Drang.” Goethe, “Prometheus,” The Sorrows of Young Werther [1774]; “Dionysius Longinus,” “On the Sublime” |
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13 |
Mystic
threshold and rustic hearth: Blake, Burns, Clare |
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18 |
Blake (cont’d) |
Inter-section I
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20 |
From Classic to Romantic: art and music |
II. The First Generation: Wordsworth and Coleridge
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25 |
Wordsworth: “Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads [1798], “Preface” to the 2nd edition of Lyrical Ballads [1800], “Appendix to the Preface” [1802]; Coleridge, Biographia Literaria XIV [1815]; Wm. Hazlitt, from The Liberal, 2( 1823) from “My First Acquaintance with Poets,” from The Spirit of the Age (from “Mr. Wordsworth”) [1825] [handouts] |
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27 |
Wordsworth: shorter lyrics TBA |
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Oct. |
2 |
Coleridge: Conversation poems: “The Eolian Harp,” “Frost at Midnight” |
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4 |
The Greater Romantic Lyric I: Wordsworth, “Tintern Abbey” |
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9 |
The Greater Romantic Lyric II: Wordsworth, (“My Heart Leaps Up”), “Ode: Intimations of
Immortality from recollections of Early Childhood”; Coleridge, Essay
XI from The Friend, Second
Section, [1818] (“On Method” in Richards) |
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11 |
The Greater Romantic Lyric III: Coleridge, “Dejection: an Ode,” from Biographia Literaria (TBA), 1st ¶ of Essay X from “On Method” |
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16 |
The (unfinish(ed?)(able?) epic of the self I: Wordsworth, Preface to The Excursion; from The Recluse; The Prelude,or Growth of a Poet’s Mind, Book First |
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II: Prelude
II-VII |
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III: Prelude VIII-XIV |
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25 |
Natural Supernaturalism: Coleridge, “Kubla Khan,” The
Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Christabel |
Inter-section II
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Nov. |
30 1 |
German Idealism Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer Goethe, Faust |
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6 |
Thanksgiving holidays |
III. The Second Generation: Keats and Shelley
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Keats, Letters, sonnets |
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13 |
Enchanted imagination: Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes; “La Belle Dame sans Merci” |
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Keats: The Great Odes I, “Ode to Psyche,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” Ode on a Grecian Urn” |
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Keats: The Great Odes II, “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode on Indolence,” “To Autumn” |
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22 |
Thanksgiving holidays |
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Playing with fire: Peacock, “The Four Ages of Poetry”; Shelley, A Defense of Poetry, “To a Sky-Lark” |
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What nature hears: Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind,” “Mont Blanc” |
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Dec. |
4 |
Myth, revoltion, regeneration: Shelley, Prometheus Unbound |
IV. The Romantic Legacy
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Nature and human nature: Emily Brontë, Wuthering
Heights |
(On order at Labyrinth)
William Blake, Selected Poetry and Prose (McGraw-Hill)
Joh. W. von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther (Signet)
__________, Faust, tr. Barker Fairley (U. of Toronto)
Wm Wordsworth, Selected Poems and Prefaces (Houghton)
S.T. Coleridge, The Portable Coleridge (Viking)
P.B. Shelley, Poetry and Prose (Norton)
John Keats, Selected Poems and Letters (Houghton)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Norton)