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1/19 Introduction to the course

1/24 William Blake: from Songs of Innocence and Experience (pp. 81 97).

1/26 William Blake, cont.: The Book of Thel (pp. 97 102);

A Song of Liberty (pp. 121 -122).

1/31 William Wordsworth: from Preface to Lyrical Ballads (from the last paragraph

on p. 26 [beginning with The principal object, then, which I proposed . . .]

through the top of p. 265 [ending with . . . of their own creation.],and from the top of p. 267 [beginning with Having dwelt thus long . . .]

to p. 273 [ending with . . . where the prose is read once.];

Simon Lee (pp. 245 248); We Are Seven (pp. 248 249).

2/2 William Wordsworth, cont.: Lines Written in Early Spring (p. 250);I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (pp. 305 306); Lines Composed a Few Miles

above Tintern Abbey (pp. 258 262); The world is too much with us (p. 319);It is a beauteous evening (p. 317).

2/7 William Wordsworth, cont.: My Heart Leaps Up (p. 306); Ode: Intimationsof Immortality (pp. 308 312); from The Prelude: Book First, lines 310 475

(pp. 331 334).

2/9 William Wordsworth, cont.: from The Prelude: Book Second, ll. 233 266

(p. 343); Book Sixth, ll. 563 641 (pp. 363 364); and Book Fourteenth, ll. 1 129

(pp. 385 387).

2/14 Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Eolian Harp (pp. 426 428);

from Biographia Literaria Ch. 13: On the Imagination, or Emplastic Power

(pp. 477 478); This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison (pp. 428 430);Frost at Midnight (pp. 464 466).

2/16 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, cont.: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (pp. 430 446).

2/21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, cont.: Kubla Khan (pp. 446 448);

from Lectures on Shakespeare: Mechanic vs. Organic Form (pp. 487 488);

Dejection: An Ode (pp. 466 469).

2/23 George Gordon, Lord Byron: from Childe Harolds Pilgrimage: Canto 1

Stanzas 1 6 (pp. 617 619), Canto 3 Stanzas 1 16 (pp. 619 622),Stanzas 36 45 (pp. 625 627), Stanzas 68 75 (pp. 628 630),

and Stanzas 85 98 (pp. 631 634); Manfred, Act 1 (pp. 636 645).

2/28 George Gordon, Lord Byron, cont.: Manfred, Acts 2 and 3 (pp. 645 669).

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3/2************mid-term exam************

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Spring Break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3/14 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: Frankenstein, Letter I Chapter VII (pp. 1 54).

3/16 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, cont.: Frankenstein, Chapter VIII Chapter XVII

(pp. 54 108).

3/21 Frankenstein, Chapter XVIII end (pp. 108 166).

3/23 Percy Bysshe Shelley: To Wordsworth (pp. 744 745); The Cloud

(pp. 815 816); To a Sky-Lark (pp. 817 819).

3/28 Percy Bysshe Shelley, cont.: A Song: Men of England (pp. 770 771);

England in 1819 (p. 771); Ode to the West Wind (pp. 772 775).

3/30 Percy Bysshe Shelley, cont.: from A Defence of Poetry (from the middle of p. 846

[beginning with Poetry is indeed something divine.] through the first paragraph

on p. 848 [through the Latin quotation of Tasso]) (pp. 846 848); Mont Blanc(pp. 762 766); Hymn to Intellectual Beauty (pp. 766 768).

4/4 Sir Walter Scott: Guy Mannering, page numbers to be announced.

4/6 Sir Walter Scott: Guy Mannering, cont., page numbers TBA.

4/11 Guy Mannering, cont.

4/13 Guy Mannering, cont.

4/18 ************term paper due************

John Keats: Ode on Melancholy (Since the paper is due today,

well read through this poem in class.)

4/20 John Keats, cont.: The Eve of St. Agnes (pp. 888- 898);

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art (p. 898 899).

4/25 John Keats, cont.: Letter to George and Thomas Keats [Negative capability]

(pp. 942 943; be sure to read note 9 on p. 942); Ode to a Nightingale(pp. 903 905); Letter to Richard Woodhouse, [A poet has no identity]

(pp. 947 948).

4/27 John Keats, cont.: Ode on a Grecian Urn (pp. 905 906).