Tuesday, February 4th
Sketch of an eolian harp
Introduction to Romanticism (BABL B 1-35)
Charlotte Smith, Sonnet 1 (“The partial Muse, has from my earliest hours”) and Sonnet 70 (“On being cautioned against walking on an headland overlooking the sea”), pub. 1784-1797, (BABL B: 50 and 52)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp,” 1795, (BABL B 313-314)
William Cowper, “The Castaway”, 1799, also in BABL 18th-C: 886-888
Literary Terms: sonnet, lyric, and ode
Thursday, February 6th
First Semester Exam (Description)
First Essay Assigned: Due Saturday, March 7th at 11:00pm
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Tuesday, February 11th
Samuel Colman, “Tintern Abbey with Elegant Figures,” c. 1815
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight,” 1798, and excerpt from Biographia Literaria, Chapter 13, On the Imagination, 1817 (BABL B 317-318 and 347)
William Wordsworth, “Expostulation and Reply,” “The Tables Turned” (182-183)
Dorothy Wordsworth, “Grasmere–A Fragment,” written 1805 (BABL B 276)
Literary Terms: personal lyric, dramatic lyric, ballad, ode, and blank verse
Definitions of the Romantic Ballad, Lyric, and Ode
Thursday, February 13th
William Wordsworth, from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads (BABL B 186-194), “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”, and “I wandered lonely as a cloud,” pub. 1807 (BABL B 182-185 and 210-212)
Literary Terms: review ballad, lyric, and ode
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Tuesday, February 18th
Lord Byron in Albanian dress, painted by Thomas Phillips (1813)
Byron, Excerpt from The Giaour (BABL B 451-456) and Dedication to Don Juan and Canto I, stanzas 1 through 103 PRINT UP AND BRING TO CLASS. Rev. 2/17 to fix error in both pagination and the number of stanzas assigned.
Literary Terms: ottava rima, ode, sonnet
Thursday, February 20th
Belived to be a sketch of Jane Austen, by her sister Cassandra Austen
P.B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” and “England in 1819” (BABL B 470-471; 485)
Literary Terms: terza rima, ode, sonnet
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Tuesday, February 25th
Jane Austen, Persuasion, Volume I, Chapters I through XII
Read Appendix H in Broadview Persuasion
In BABL B read Charlotte Smith, “Written at the Close of Spring” (BABL B 50)
Literary Terms: characterization, dialogue, flashback/flashforward, foil, free indirect style/free indirect discourse, narrative perspective, narrator, novel
Extra Credit Opportunity TODAY: Dr. Sharon Weltman will be speaking on “Victorians on Broadway: Melodrama and Gender Performance in Jekyll and Hyde,” at 4:30pm in Park Hall 265.
You may receive up to 3 extra point on the next semester exam by attending this talk. Please pay close and respectful attention during the presentation. After the talk, submit a 2-paragraph response. Your response should go beyond mere summary, making connections to literature you have studied or read, ideally in this class, but everything you’ve read is fair game.
Link to department event page: https://english.uga.edu/events/content/2020/victorians-broadway-melodrama-and-gender-performance-jekyll-and-hyde-dr-sharon
Thursday, February 27th
Jane Austen, Persuasion, Volume II, Chapter I through VI
In BABL B read William Wordsworth, “I griev’d for Buonaparte” (BABL B 204)
Read Appendix F in Broadview Persuasion (289-293)
Important scenes from Volume I
First Meeting (94), which moves between Anne and Wentworth
“Perpetual Estrangement” in the Musgroves’ parlor (97; 105)
Scene with “little Walter” (111)
Walk to Winthrop (114); Nut gathering (116)
Trip to Lyme: visit to Captain Harville (127), Benwick and poetry (130), Meeting with Mr. Elliot (132), Louisa’s fall (137), Wentworth’s “glow” (141-142)