| The Scope of Reason: Moral and Intellectual Backgrounds |
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Introduction
Graham, Jorie. Thinking. |
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Plato. From Ion, Republic, and Phaedrus. |
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Locke, John. Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Fox, Christopher. Defining Eighteenth-Century Psychology: Some Problems and Perspectives. |
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Newton, Isaac. Opticks.
Voltaire on Newton's Opticks
Thomson, James. "To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton."
Bowden, Samuel. "A Poem Sacred to the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton." |
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Pope, Alexander. Essay on Man. Books 1-2, and 4. |
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Addison. The Spectator.
Akenside, Mark. The Pleasures of Imagination. Book 1. |
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Akenside, Mark. The Pleasures of Imagination. Books 2-3. |
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Hartley, David. Observations on Man.
Young, Edward. Night Thoughts. Book 1. |
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Wilmot, John. A Satire on Reason and Mankind.
Mettrie, Julien Offray de la. Man, A Machine. |
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| The Bounds of Reason: Melancholia and Madness |
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Cheyne, George. From The English Malady.
Green, Matthew. The Spleen. |
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Gray, Thomas. Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
Warton, Thomas. The Pleasures of Melancholy.
Collins, William. Ode on the Poetical Character. |
First draft due (5-6 pages) |
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Smart, Christopher.Jubilate Agno. |
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Blake, William. An Island in the Moon.
"Mock on, Mock on..."
"You Don't Believe I Won't Attempt to Make Ye" |
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Blake, William. The Book of Urizen. |
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Student Presentations and Evaluations |
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| The Scientific Poem and its Critique |
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Lucretius. De Rerum Natura. Books 1, and 4. |
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Thomson, James. The Seasons, Summer. |
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Armstrong, John. The Art of Preserving Health. Book 1, lines 1-63.
Book 4 (online) |
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Darwin, Erasmus. The Botanic Garden. Parts 1, and 2.
Canning, George et. al. "The Loves of the Triangles." In The Anti-Jacobin. |
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Darwin, Erasmus. The Temple of Nature.
or, The Origin of Society. Cantos 1, and 3. |
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Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads.
Preface
"The Thorn" (with Note to "The Thorn")
"The Idiot Boy"
"Goody Blake and Harry Gill"
"Simon Lee"
"We are Seven" |
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Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads. (cont.)
"Expostulation and Reply"
"The Tables Turned"
"Lines, Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" |
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| Keats, Medicine, and the Poetic Mind |
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Keats's Anatomical and Physiological Notebook
Bell, Charles. Idea of a New Anatomy of the Brain.
Keats. In drear-nighted December. |
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Keats. "To My Brother George," Sleep and Poetry," and "Lamia."
Hazlitt, William. "On Poetry in General." |
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Keats. "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode to Melancholy," and "Ode to Indolence."
Sel. Keats Letters |
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Student Presentations |
Final paper due (12-15 pages) |