Dates
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Topics |
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Introduction - Romanticism & Revolution |
A. C. Baugh, "The Background of Revolution: Repression & Reform 1789-1832 |
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The Romantic Movement in England |
A. C. Baugh, "Romanticism (Literary History of England, 1967) |
Leon Litvack, "Romanticism 1780-1830 |
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THE EARLY ROMANTICS
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William Wordsworth & the Lyrical Ballads |
Shorter Poems by Wordsworth (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
The French Revolution (1803 |
Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1798] (1801) - abbreviated |
Nutting (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
The Daffodils (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
The Mad Mother (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
Some Sonnets by William Wordsworth |
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley |
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6
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John Keats |
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7
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George Gordon (Lord Byron) |
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THE VICTORIANS
(LATER ROMANTICS
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Queen Victoria & the British Empire |
Sophie Gilmartin, Victorian Poetry |
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Alfred Lord Tennyson |
[to be added]
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Matthew Arnold |
[to be added] |
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Robert Browning & Elizabeth Browning |
[to be added] |
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Emily Dickinson & Walt Whitman |
[to be added] |
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Ernest Dowson & Gerard Manley Hopkins |
[to be added] |
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William Butler Yeats |
[to be added] |
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T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound |
[to be added] |
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William Carlos Williams & Allen Ginsberg |
[to be added] |
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Elizabeth Bishop & Sylvia Plath |
[to be added] |
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Theodore Roethke, Dylan Thomas, & Louis MacNeice |
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