| English BC 3178 Victorian Poetry & Criticism Fall term, 2007 Tu Th 1.10 – 2.25 |
C. H. Plotkin |
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Syllabus |
| Week |
Date |
Readings |
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I |
Sept. 4 |
Introduction: The Victorian Eras Buckley, ch. 1*; Houghton, Preface & ch. 1; "Victorian Analects" |
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II |
11
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"Victorian Analects" (cont'd); Jeremy Bentham,
from "The Rationale of
Reward" (1825)*; Thos Babington Macauley,
from
"Milton" (1825); Wm J. Fox, review of
Tennyson's Poems, Chiefly Lyrical [1830] (1831); Arthur Henry
Hallam, "On Some of the Characteristics of Modern Poetry" (1831); Henry
Taylor, "Preface" to Philip Van Artevelde (1834)
(I) Men & Women |
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III |
18
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"Mariana" (1830); from
The Princess: ["The Woman's Cause Is Man's"] (1847)*; "Locksley
Hall" (1842) Elizabeth Barrett Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese 1, 13, 21, 32, 43 (1850); "To George Sand: A Desire" and "To George Sand: A Recognition" (1844) Sarah Stickley Ellis, from The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits (1839)*; John Henry Newman, "[A Definition of a Gentleman]" from The Idea of a University (1852) (a) Coventry Patmore, The Angel in the House (1854 - 62) |
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IV |
25
27 |
John Stuart Mill, from
The Subjugation of Women, ch. 1 (1869) Frances Power Cobbe, from Life of Frances Power Cobbe as Told by Herself (1894) (b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh (1862) Robert Browning, "A Woman's Last Word" (1853?)*; "Any Wife to Any Husband"*; "A Lover's Quarrel" (1853)*; "Love among the Ruins" (1852); "Two in the Campagna" (1854)*; "By the Fire-Side" (1853); "The Last Ride Together" |
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Oct. 2
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Matthew Arnold, "To Marguerite--Continued" (1849); Dante Gabriel Rossetti, "The Blessed Damozel" (1847); from The House of Life (1850): "The Kiss," "Nuptial Sleep" Robert Buchanan, "The Fleshly School of Poetry: Mr D. G. Rossetti (1871) Algernon Charles Swinburne, "Laus Veneris" (1866); {[("Anactoria")]}?? Christina Rossetti: "Goblin Market" (1859); "Promises Like Pie-Crusts" (1861); "Winter: My Secret" (1857); "Sleeping at Last" (1896) |
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VI |
9 |
George Meredith, Modern Love (1862) Thomas Hardy, "Neutral Tones" (1867)*; "Ah, Are You Digging at my Grave?" (1914)* |
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11
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(II) Civilization & Entropy
Houghton, chs. 2 & 3 Tennyson, "The Lotos-Eaters" (1832); "Ulysses" (1833); "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1854) |
VII |
16 |
Tennyson: Idylls of the
King: "Dedication" (1862), "The Coming of Arthur" (1869),
"The Passing of Arthur" (1869) Robt Browning, "'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'" (1852) |
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VIII |
23
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Arnold, FROM Essays in
Criticism, First Series: "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time"
(1864); "Dover Beach" (1851); "Memorial Verses" (1850); "The
Buried Life" (1852) Arnold (cont'd); |
IX |
30 |
(III) God
the Question:
Houghton, ch. 4, 9.6; Plotkin, "Victorian Religious Poetry (452-68)*; Houghton, ch.
10.2; Hillis Miller, "Introduction"* Robt Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1862), "An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Karshish, the Arab Physician" (1855); "Cleon" (1854) Thomas Carlyle, FROM Characteristics
(1831)* ; selections from Charles Darwin and Leonard Huxley |
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X |
6
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David Friedrich Strauss, FROM The
Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (1835)*; John William Colenso, FROM The Pentateuch and Book of Joshua Critically Examined (1862) Arthur Hugh Clough, "Epi-straussium" (1847)*, FROM Dipsychus: "The Latest Decalogue" (1862) Arnold, "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse" (ca. 1852) Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine" (1866); The Triumph of Time (ll.257-304)Gerard Manley Hopkins: Plotkin, "Victorian Religious Poetry" (468-76)*; "God's Grandeur" (1877); "As kingfishers catch fire dragonflies draw flame" (ca. 1881); "Pied Beauty" (1877); "The Windhover" (1877); The Wreck of the Deutschland (1876) |
XI |
13
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G.M. Hopkins (cont'd),
"Spelt from Sibyl's Leaves" (1885); "[Carrion Comfort] (1885); "No
worst, there is none" (ca. 1885); "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not
day" (ca. 1885), "Thou art indeed just, Lord" (1889) Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven" (1883)
(IV) Art/Nature/Society:
[Review: Bentham, FROM The Rationale of Reward (1825)*; Macaulay, FROM Milton
(1825)*; Taylor, FROM Preface to Philip Van Artevelde] Matthew Arnold, "Preface to
Poems, 1853"; FROM "On the Modern Element in Literature" (1857)*;
FROM "On Translating Homer" (1861) FROM "Maurice de
Guérin" (1863); "The Study of Poetry" (1880)* |
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XII |
20 22 |
Eliz. Barrett Browning: Aurora
Leigh, bk. V; "A Musical Instrument" Walter Pater, The
Renaissance; Studies in Art and Poetry (1873): "Preface," FROM
"The School of Giorgione"*, FROM "Leonardo da Vinci"*,
"Conclusion" |
XIII |
27 |
Oscar Wilde, Preface to The
Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)*; "The Critic as Artist" (1890); Aphorisms* Arthur Symons, "The Decadent Movement in Literature" (1893), "White Heliotrope" (1895)* Postscript: Thos Hardy, "Channel Firing" (1914)* (V) Stuff and
Nonsense, or "seriously funny" |
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XIV |
Dec. 4
6 |
Lewis Carroll,
"Jabberwocky," "The Walrus and the Carpenter,"
"The Hunting of the Snark" Edward Lear, "The Owl and the Pussycat," "The Dong with the Luminous Nose," "The Jumblies," "How Pleasant to Know Mr Lear" The Ages of Victoria: Summing Up |
Written requirements
Two papers, the first 1250 words (due
October 11th), the second 2500 words (December 4th).
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Collins, Thomas J. & Vivienne J. Rundle, The Broadview
Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory (Broadview) |