This section contains the required readings for the course. Readings are also listed by session.
Required Texts
Gordon, George, and Lord Byron. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0192840401.
Keats, John. John Keats: Complete Poems. Edited by Jack Stillinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0674154312.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Edited by Marilyn Butler. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192833669.
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Dover, 1993. ISBN: 0486275582.
Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 041535529X.
Readings by Session
| DAY # | Topics | READINGS |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | ||
| 1 | Introduction | |
| Week 2 | ||
| 2 | Readings by Thomas Gray and Thomas Warton |
Gray, Thomas. “Sonnet on the Death of Richard West,” “Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College,” “Elegy in a Country Churchyard,” and “The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode.” In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 324-338. ISBN: 063120623X. Warton, Thomas. “The Pleasures of Melancholy.” In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 368-374. ISBN: 063120623X. |
| 3 | Readings by Anna Seward and Charlotte Smith |
Seward, Anna. Sonnets 1 and 28. In *Original Sonnets on Various Subjects; and Odes Paraphrased from Horace. * 2nd ed. London, UK: G. Sael, 1799, pp. 3, 17. Smith, Charlotte. Sonnets 1-21 and sonnet 47. In The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Edited by Stuart Curran. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 13-27, 44. ISBN: 019507873X. |
| Week 3 | ||
| 4 | Readings by Wordsworth | Wordsworth. “Advertisement” to Lyrical Ballads, “Simon Lee,” “Goody Blake and Harry Gill,” “We Are Seven,” “The Last of the Flock,” and “The Old Cumberland Beggar.” |
| 5 | Readings by Wordsworth (cont.) | Wordsworth. “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads, “The Idiot Boy,” “The Thorn,” “Expostulation and Reply,” and “The Tables Turned.” |
| Week 4 | ||
| 6 | Readings by Wordsworth (cont.) | Wordsworth. “Lines Written in Early Spring,” “Hart-Leap Well,” “Michael,” “The Brothers,” and “Nutting.” |
| Week 5 | ||
| 7 | Readings by Coleridge | Coleridge. “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.” |
| 8 | Readings by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and John Thelwall |
Wordsworth. “Tintern Abbey.” Coleridge. “The Nightingale,” and “Frost at Midnight.” Thelwall, John. “Lines Written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on the 27th of July, 1797; during a long excursion, in quest of a peaceful retreat,” and “To the Infant Hampden. – Written during a sleepless night. Derby. Oct. 1797.” In Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement. 1801. Reprinted by Oxford, UK: Woodstock Books, 1989, pp. 125-129, 140-141. ISBN:1854770144. |
| Week 6 | ||
| 9 | Readings by Coleridge (cont.) | Conversation poems (cont.), incl. Coleridge. “A Letter to Sara Hutchinson.” |
| 10 | Readings by Keats | Keats. “Sleep and Poetry,” and “To My Brother George.” |
| Week 7 | ||
| 11 | Readings by Keats (cont.) | Keats. “Odes.” |
| 12 | Readings by Keats (cont.) | Keats. “Odes.” |
| Week 8 | ||
| 13 | Readings by Keats and William Hazlitt |
Keats. “The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream,” and “Lamia.” Hazlitt, William. “On Poetry in General.” In Selected Writings. Edited by Jon Cook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 308-323. ISBN: 0192817345. |
| 14 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Shelley. “Julian and Maddalo,” and “Ozymandias.” |
| Week 9 | ||
| 15 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Shelley. “A Defence of Poetry,” “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty,” and “Epipsychidion.” |
| Week 10 | ||
| 16 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.) | Shelley. “Ode to the West Wind,” “England in 1819,” “Song to the Men of England,” and “The Mask of Anarchy.” |
| 17 | Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron |
Shelley. “Adonais.” Byron. “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.” (Sel.) |
| Week 11 | ||
| 18 | Readings by Mary Shelley | Shelley. Frankenstein. |
| Week 12 | ||
| 19 | Readings by Mary Shelley (cont.) | Shelley. Frankenstein. |
| 20 | Readings by Byron | Byron. “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Canto I (st. 1-28), Canto III. |
| Week 13 | ||
| 21 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. “Don Juan,” Cantos I-II. |
| 22 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. “Don Juan,” Cantos X-XI. |
| Week 14 | ||
| 23 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. “Cain.” |
| 24 | Readings by Byron (cont.) | Byron. “Cain.” |
