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This section contains the required readings for the course. Readings are also listed by session.



Required Texts


Amazon logo Gordon, George, and Lord Byron. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0192840401.

Amazon logo Keats, John. John Keats: Complete Poems. Edited by Jack Stillinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0674154312.

Amazon logo Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Edited by Marilyn Butler. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192833669.

Amazon logo Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Dover, 1993. ISBN: 0486275582.

Amazon logo Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 041535529X.



Readings by Session



DAY #TopicsREADINGS
Week 1
1Introduction
Week 2
2Readings by Thomas Gray and Thomas Warton

Amazon logo Gray, Thomas. "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West," "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," and "The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode." In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 324-338. ISBN: 063120623X.

Amazon logo Warton, Thomas. "The Pleasures of Melancholy." In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 368-374. ISBN: 063120623X.

3Readings by Anna Seward and Charlotte Smith

Seward, Anna. Sonnets 1 and 28. In Original Sonnets on Various Subjects; and Odes Paraphrased from Horace.  2nd ed. London, UK: G. Sael, 1799, pp. 3, 17.

Amazon logo Smith, Charlotte. Sonnets 1-21 and sonnet 47. In The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Edited by Stuart Curran. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 13-27, 44. ISBN: 019507873X.

Week 3
4Readings by WordsworthWordsworth. "Advertisement" to Lyrical Ballads, "Simon Lee," "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "We Are Seven," "The Last of the Flock," and "The Old Cumberland Beggar."
5Readings by Wordsworth (cont.)Wordsworth. "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, "The Idiot Boy," "The Thorn," "Expostulation and Reply," and "The Tables Turned."
Week 4
6Readings by Wordsworth (cont.)Wordsworth. "Lines Written in Early Spring," "Hart-Leap Well," "Michael," "The Brothers," and "Nutting."
Week 5
7Readings by ColeridgeColeridge. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
8Readings by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and John Thelwall

Wordsworth. "Tintern Abbey."

Coleridge. "The Nightingale," and "Frost at Midnight."

Amazon logo Thelwall, John. "Lines Written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on the 27th of July, 1797; during a long excursion, in quest of a peaceful retreat,” and “To the Infant Hampden. – Written during a sleepless night. Derby. Oct. 1797.” In Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement. 1801. Reprinted by Oxford, UK: Woodstock Books, 1989, pp. 125-129, 140-141. ISBN:1854770144.

Week 6
9Readings by Coleridge (cont.)Conversation poems (cont.), incl. Coleridge. "A Letter to Sara Hutchinson."
10Readings by KeatsKeats. "Sleep and Poetry," and "To My Brother George."
Week 7
11Readings by Keats (cont.)Keats. "Odes."
12Readings by Keats (cont.)Keats. "Odes."
Week 8
13Readings by Keats and William HazlittKeats. "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream," and "Lamia."

Amazon logo Hazlitt, William. "On Poetry in General." In Selected Writings. Edited by Jon Cook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 308-323. ISBN: 0192817345.
14Readings by Percy Bysshe ShelleyShelley. "Julian and Maddalo," and "Ozymandias."
Week 9
15Readings by Percy Bysshe ShelleyShelley. "A Defence of Poetry," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," and "Epipsychidion."
Week 10
16Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.)Shelley. "Ode to the West Wind," "England in 1819," "Song to the Men of England," and "The Mask of Anarchy."
17Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and ByronShelley. "Adonais."

Byron. "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." (Sel.)
Week 11
18Readings by Mary ShelleyShelley. Frankenstein.
Week 12
19Readings by Mary Shelley (cont.)Shelley. Frankenstein.
20Readings by ByronByron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Canto I (st. 1-28), Canto III.
Week 13
21Readings by Byron (cont.)Byron. "Don Juan," Cantos I-II.
22Readings by Byron (cont.)Byron. "Don Juan," Cantos X-XI.
Week 14
23Readings by Byron (cont.)Byron. "Cain."
24Readings by Byron (cont.)Byron. "Cain."

 








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