Texts: 

  • Byron, George Gordon, Lord.  Lord Byron: The Major Works.  Ed. Jerome McGann.  New York: Oxford UP, 1986.  0192840401

  • Hemans, Felicia.  Records of Woman With Other Poems.  1828. Ed. Paula Feldman. Lexington: U Kentucky P, 1999.  0813109647

  • Keats, John. Complete Poems.  Ed. Jack Stillinger. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1982.  0674154312

  • 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)

  • VI-VII

  • VIII +2 book reviews

  • IX-X

  • XI-XII

R3/4

Don Juan Reports (Shayna-Waterloo & Postwar England)

  • XIII + three book reviews

  • XIV + article

  • XV + article

  • XVI-XVII

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.