Office Hrs: M 12-1, W 2-3 and by Appt

Prof. Laura QuinneyENG 45B

Rabb 131MWTh 1:00-1:50

lin-Sang 112

Office hrs: M 12-1, W 2-3 and by appt.

Paige Eggebrecht

Rabb 252

Office Hours: Thursday2-4pm

ROMANTICISM; GODS, NATURE, LONELINESS, DREAMS

Text:The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th ed., vol. 2 (Romantic

Period and 20th Century)

WJan 13Introduction

ThJan 15BALLADS

Traditional Ballads

Keats, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” (923)

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, “The Proud Ladye” (xerox)

MJan 18:NO CLASS

WJan 20Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Listen to Ian McKellen read it@

DeQuincey, “The Literature of Knowledge and the Literature of Power”(xerox)

ThJan 21Coleridge, Christabel(462-477),“Kubla Khan” (459)

MJan 25Dorothy Wordsworth, from The Grasmere Journals (406-415)

William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (272-282):

“Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” “Simon Lee,” “We Are Seven,”

“Lines Written in Early Spring,” “Expostulation and Reply,”

“The Tables Turned”

WJan 27Wordsworth, Lucy poems (305-307)

“Strange fits of passion I have known,” “She dwelt among the

untrodden ways,” “Three years she grew,” “A slumber did my

spirit seal,” “I travelled among unknown men.”

ThJan 28““

MFeb 1SONGS:

Blake, Songs of Innocence and of Experience (118-135)

WFeb 3““

ThFeb 4Discussion section

MFeb 8BLANK VERSE:

Barbauld, “A Summer Evening’s Meditation” (43-6),

“Washing-Day” (50-2)

Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp” (439-441),

“This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (441-43),

“Frost at Midnight” (477-9)

WFeb 10Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” (288-92), “Nutting” (308)

ThFeb 11Discussion section

Feb 15-19:NO CLASS

MFeb 22Shelley, “Alastor” (752-70), “Mont Blanc” (770-773)

Byron, “Darkness” (618-20)

WFeb 24CELEBRATIONS:

Barbauld, “To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Expected Soon to Become Visible” (49)

Burns, “Auld Lang Syne” (173-4)

Hemans, “Casabianca” (884)

Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (334),

“The Solitary Reaper” (342)

Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” (617),

“Stanzas for Music” (LATTE)

Shelley, “To a Skylark” (834), “To Night” (836),

“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” (773-6),

“To Jane (The keen stars were twinkling)” (855)

ThFeb 25Discussion section5-7pp. PAPER Due.

MFeb 29LAMENTS:

Burns, “To A Mouse” (171)

Wordsworth “Elegiac Stanzas” (343-4)

Coleridge, “The Pains of Sleep” (483)

John Clare, “I Am” (881)

WMar 2Byron, “So, we’ll go no more a-roving” (620),

“On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year” (742)

Shelley, “Mutabililty” (751), “The Flower That Smiles Today” (LATTE), “When the lamp is shattered” (854),

“Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici” (LATTE)

ThMar 3Discussion section

MMar 7SONNETS:

Charlotte Smith, from Elegiac Sonnets (54-6)

William Bowles, “To the River Itchin” (LATTE)

Coleridge, “To the River Otter” (LATTE)

Wordsworth, Sonnets (344-348): “Composed Upon Westminister

Bridge,” “It is a beauteous evening,” “To Toussaint l’Ouverture,”

“September 1st, 1802,” London, 1802,” “The world is too much

with us,” “Surprised by joy,” “Mutability” (348), “Steamboats,

Viaducts, and Railways”

WMar 9Shelley, “To Wordsworth” (752) “Ozymandias” (776)

“England in 1819” (790)

Keats, “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (904),

”“On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again” (910)

“When I have fears that I may cease to be” (911)

John Clare, “Mouse’s Nest” (880)

ThMar 10Discussion section

MMar 14ODES:

Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” (335-42)

Coleridge, “Dejection: An Ode” (479-483)

WMar 16““

ThMar 17Discussion section

MMar 21Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (791-3)

Keats, the Great Odes (925-35): “Ode to Psyche,”

“Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn,”

“Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode on Indolence,”

“To Autumn” (951)

WMar 23““

ThMar 24Discussion sectionCreative ASSIGNMENT Due.

MMar 28NO CLASS

WMar 30EPICS:

Wordsworth, The Prelude (356-388)

ThMar 31Discussion section

MApr 4Wordsworth, The Prelude(388-402)

WApr 6Blake, All Religions are One (116), There is No

Natural Religion a and b (116-7), The Book of Thel (135-41)

“Mock on, Mock on, Voltaire, Rousseau” (160),

“The Mental Traveller” (LATTE)

ThApr 7Discussion section

MApr 11Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion(141-8),

The Book of Urizen (LATTE)

WApr 13““

ThApr 14Discussion section

MApr 18Shelley, The Triumph of Life(LATTE)

WApr 20““

ThApr 21NO CLASS

Apr. 25-29NO CLASS

MMay 2Keats, The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream (952-964)

W May 45-7pp. PAPER due.

Course Rules:

1)No plagiarizing. No cheating.

2)Inform me the first week of class if you have a documented disability.

3)Avoid using laptops and electronic devices in class. They are permitted only for looking up course material.

Course Requirements:

1)Attendance and class participation. (10%)

2)Occasional short writing assignments for section. (10%)

3)Creative assignment. Due: 3/24. (20%)

4)Two 5-7pp. papers. Choice of topics. Due: 2/25 and 5/4. (30% each).