Texts:
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Byron, George Gordon,
Lord. Lord Byron: The Major Works. Ed. Jerome McGann. New York:
Oxford UP, 1986. 0192840401
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Hemans, Felicia.
Records of Woman With Other Poems. 1828. Ed. Paula Feldman. Lexington: U
Kentucky P, 1999. 0813109647
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Keats, John. Complete
Poems. Ed. Jack Stillinger. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982.
0674154312
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Wordsworth, William &
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. Eds. R.L. Brett & A.R.
Jones. 2nd edition. New York: Routledge, 1991. 0415063884
As we're
covering these collections, you should continually reread them. I will target
days that we'll discuss the poems, but I want you to continually review and
annotate them, so that you develop a sense of how the collections operate as a
whole (and not just the individual poems.
Calendar Updated on
11/28/2008
Date |
Reading |
T1/13 |
Course Introduction |
R1/15 |
Wordsworth "We
Are Seven," Coleridge "The Foster Mother's Tale," Byron
"Dedication" to Don Juan (373-377) and endnotes (1042-44); Keats
"To Autumn"; Hemans, "The Indian Woman's Death Song" |
T1/20 |
Lyrical Ballads I
Rime of the Ancyent Mariner, "The Foster Mother's Tale," "Lines,"
"Nightingale." Advertisement |
R1/22 |
Lyrical Ballads I "Lines," "Simon Lee,"
"Anecdote," "We Are Seven," "Lines," |
T1/27 |
Lyrical Ballads I
"Female Vagrant," "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "Last of The Flock" |
R1/29 |
Lyrical Ballads
"The Thorn,"
"Mad Mother," "The Idiot Boy, "Complaint,"
"Tintern Abbey" and catch-up |
T2/3 |
Lyrical Ballads II
Preface (242-72); "Hart-leap Well," "There Was a Boy" |
R2/5 |
Lyrical Ballads II
"Strange fits of passion, "Song," "A slumber did my spirit seal, "Lucy Gray,"
Nutting" |
T2/10 |
Lyrical Ballads II
"The Pet Lamb," Michael" SHORT ESSAY DUE. |
R2/12 |
Don Juan
Dedication & Canto I |
T/17 |
Don Juan Canto
II (Shannon-Education) |
R2/19 |
Don Juan Canto
III |
T2/24 |
Don Juan Canto
IV (Shannon K.-Royals) |
R2/26 |
Don Juan Canto V |
T3/2 |
Don Juan Reports
(Jarred-Byron's Love life)
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VI-VII
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VIII +2 book reviews
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IX-X
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XI-XII
|
R3/4 |
Don Juan Reports
(Shayna-Waterloo & Postwar England)
|
3/8-12 |
Spring Break |
T3/16 |
Don Juan
presentation catch-up; Keats
Lamia
|
R3/18 |
Keats Isabella
Annotated Bibliography Due
(Ryan-Keats Bio) |
T3/23 |
Keats The Eve of St.
Agnes (Eric-Music) |
R3/25 |
Keats "Nightingale,
"Grecian Urn," |
T3/30 |
Keats "Psyche," "To
Autumn" "Melancholy" |
R4/1 |
Keats Hyperion |
T4/6 |
Hemans TBA
(Rhiannon-Women's position) |
R4/8 |
Hemans TBA |
T4/13 |
Hemans TBA
(Rebekah-Religion) |
R4/15 |
Hemans TBA |
T4/20 |
Founder's Day—No Class |
R4/22 |
Hemans TBA |
T4/27 |
TBA
Research Paper Due |
R4/29 |
Course Overview |
S5/2 |
Final Exam (6 PM) |
This syllabus is subject to change.
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