~Byron~
Tuesday, March 31st: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, March 30th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
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)
See the British Library for information on this long poem
Percy Bysshe Shelley, “To Wordsworth” (921)
Felicia Hemans, “To Wordsworth,”
Literary Terms: ottava rima, epic simile, sonnet
Required Online Resources
Audio recording of Byron’s Dedication
Thursday, April 2nd: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 1st at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Byron, The Giaour (773-96)
Required Online Resources
The Giaour Outlined (Dr. Roxanne Eberle)
Read the definition of the “Byronic hero” in the Encyclopedia of Romanticism, pp. 72-73
This title is available as an online eBook through the UGA libraries. The link will take you to the title; you’ll need to go to the page number cited above.
Read the definition of the “Fragment” in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, pp. 505-506
This title is available as an online eBook through the UGA libraries. The link will take you to the title; you’ll need to go to the page number cited above.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley~
Percy Bysshe Shelley, painted by Alfred Clint from work by Amelia Curran, 1819
Tuesday, April 7th: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 6th at 7:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
P.B. Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (935-936), “Song to the Men of England,” and “England in 1819” (1004-1005)
Literary Terms: terza rima, sonnet sequence, and ode. Please use the The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics when looking up these term definitions: terza rima (1423), sonnet sequence (1321), and ode (1st paragraph on 971, and section on the Romantic Ode 972-973). Review the rules of the sonnet as necessary.
Mss. image of “Ode to the West Wind,” Photo Credit: Madison Dye
Thursday, April 9th: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 8th at 7:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
P.B. Shelley, from A Defence of Poetry (1015-1023), and “Mont Blanc” (932-934)
Images of the Alps, including Mont Blanc
Literary Terms: lyric poetry
~Keats~
John Keats, by Joseph Severn
Tuesday, April 14th: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 13th at 7:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Keats, “Ode to Psyche,” “Ode to a Nightingale” and “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1102-1105)
Selected Letters (1139-1143; 1147-1148)
to Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817
to George and Thomas Keats, 21, 27(?) December 1817 to John Hamilton Reynolds, 3 February 1818
to Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818
An academic posting on the odes
Literary Terms: ode and sonnet
Photo Credit: Madison Dye
Thursday, April 16th: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 15th at 7:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.
Keats, “Ode on Melancholy” (1105-1106) and “To Autumn” (1107-1108)
~Austen~
Belived to be a sketch of Jane Austen, by her sister Cassandra Austen
Tuesday, April 21st: Novel Report due by class. Don’t forget to evaluate the course!
Jane Austen, Persuasion, Volume I and Volume II
Thursday, April 23rd, Don’t forget to evaluate the course!
Continue discussion of Persuasion
Consider the ways in which the following scenes resonate with one another and move the plot towards its conclusion:
First Meeting (94), where focalization shifts 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)
Scene in Molland’s Chocolate Shop (192-196)
Concert Scene (199-206)
First White Hart Scene (232-237)
Second White Hart Scene (239-246)
All revisions to poetry reports are due by today. Please upload a new file rather than revised the file currently on eLC.
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Friday, April 24th
Don’t forget to evaluate the course!
All students receive their grade based upon: poetry reports (5 highest scores), novel reports, midterm, and participation.
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