Hale Home Romantics Calendar Assignments

Textbooks:

  • Greenblatt, Stephen, et. al., The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Eighth Edition, Volume D: The Romantic Period. New York: Norton, 2005. 0393927202
  • Radcliffe, Ann. The Mysteries of Udolpho. 1794. New York: Penguin, 2001. 0140437592
  • Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus (The 1818 Text). ed. Marilyn Butler. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 0192833669

R 01/18

Course Introduction

T01/23

Barbauld: "The Mouse's Petition," "Epistle to William Wilberforce," and "The Rights of Woman"; Smith: "Written at the Close of Spring," "To Sleep," "On Being Cautioned"

R01/25

Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho Vols. I-II

T01/30

Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho Vol. III

R02/01

Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho Vol. IV

T02/06

Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience, 81-97

R02/08

Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience VIEW IMAGES

T02/13

Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 111-120; "A Song of Liberty," 121-2

R02/15

Wordsworth: selections from Lyrical Ballads, 245-262

T02/20

Wordsworth: "Nutting," "The Ruined Cottage," Michael," "Resolution & Independence"

R02/22

Wordsworth: Sonnet Presentations, (each student will make a brief presentation on one of the sonnets from the anthology 317-320)

T02/27

Wordsworth: The Prelude, Book I, 322-38

R03/01

Essay 1 due—be prepared to present your essay in class

T03/06

catch-up day

R03/08

Coleridge: "The Eolian Harp," "This Lime Tree Bower My Prison," "Frost at Midnight"

03/12-16

Spring break

T03/20

Coleridge: "Kubla Khan," "Christabel"

R03/22

Byron: "Written After Swimming…," "She Walks in Beauty," "They Say that Hope is Happiness," "When we two parted," "Stanzas for Music," "Darkness," "So We'll go no more a roving," selections from Canto I of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 611-19

T03/27

Byron: Manfred, Erik's presentation on Brown's "Manfred on the Jungfrau"

R03/29

Shelley: "Mutability," "To Wordsworth," Alastor

T 04/03

Shelley: "Mont Blanc," "Stanzas Written in Dejection," "A Song: 'Men of England,'" "England in 1819," "To Sidmouth and Castlereagh" Caleb's presentation on Turner's Mont Blanc

R04/05

"To William Shelley," "To a Sky-Lark" "To___ [Music, when soft voices die]" "When the lamp is shattered," "To Jane"

T04/10

Keats: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," Selections from Endymion (883-87), "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again," "To Homer"

R04/12

Keats: "Sonnet to Sleep," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy"

T04/17

Keats: Lamia, "To Autumn," "This Living Hand"  Cat's presentation on Fuseli's "The Nightmare" (1781)

R04/19

Hemans all selections  ESSAY 2 DUE Monday, April 23 by 5 PM

T04/24

Founders Day

R04/26

M. Shelley: Frankenstein Vol. I  Ashley's presentation on Fuseli's "The Nightmare" (1790-1)

T05/01

M. Shelley: Frankenstein Vol. II  Amanda's presentation on Friedrich's "Wanderer Above the Sea of Mist"

R05/03

M. Shelley: Frankenstein Vol. III

T05/08

Review for Final Exam

S05/12

Final Exam, Saturday, May 12, 6 PM

Hale Home Romantics Calendar Assignments