Tuesday, March 3rd
Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode” (586)
W. Wordsworth, “Resolution and Independence” (403-405)
D. Wordsworth, from The Grasmere Journals, 14 May 1800 (490-491, paying special attention to the “N.B.” on pg. 491)
Last day to turn in a poetry report for the first 1/2 of the semester
Thursday, March 5th
Midterm Exam
Description and List of Literary Terms
Revisions to Poetry Reports are due prior to the start of the exam.
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Spring Break
Optional Spring Break assignment: View at least one biopic or film adaptation of a Romantic-era work. Resource list to be added. 2 points extra credit on the final if you write up a “review” of one to two paragraphs connecting the film to any reading done this semester in our class.
CLASSES SUSPENDED: You’ll see that I’ve taken dates off of all of the remaining reading days. Over the next few days, I’ll be revising the semester to reflect a shift to online coursework (if necessary). (dated March 15th)
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Introduction to the Later Romantics
Lord Byron in Albanian dress, painted by Thomas Phillips (1813)
George Gordon, Lord Byron, Dedication to Don Juan (830-832)
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To Wordsworth” (921)
Felicia Hemans, “To Wordsworth,”
Literary Terms: ottava rima, epic simile, sonnet
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Byron, The Giaour (773-96)
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Byron, Excerpts from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto Three (799-819) and Stanzas 1-10 and 18 from Canto Four (819-821; 822)
Literary Terms: epic and Spenserian stanza
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Percy Bysshe Shelley, painted by Alfred Clint from work by Amelia Curran, 1819
P.B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (935-936), “Song to the Men of England,” and “England in 1819” (1004-1005)
Literary Terms: sonnet and ode
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P.B. Shelley, from A Defence of Poetry (1015-1023), and “Mont Blanc” (932-934)
Literary Terms: lyric poetry
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Tuesday, March 31st
Mary Shelley
Mary Shelley, “Transformation,” link to Broadview website PDF. You’ll need your access code to login.
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