| EARLY ROMANTICS |
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| Introduction |
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William Wordsworth (1760-1855) [Powerpoint] |
| Poetry |
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Early Poems (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
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“The French Revolution” (1803 |
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“Nutting” (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
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“The Daffodils” (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
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“The Mad Mother” (from Lyrical Ballads, 1798) |
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“Tintern Abbey” [from Lyrical Ballads, 1798] |
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Some Sonnets by William Wordsworth |
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“Ode on Intimations of Immortality [... &c.] |
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Philosophical Poems [a survey] |
| Prose |
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Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1798] (1801) [abbrev.] |
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Preface to Lyrical Ballads [1798] (1801) [longer] |
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Graham Hough on the Lyrical Ballads (The Romantics Poets, 1953) |
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| Poems |
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“Kubla Khan” (poem) |
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“Frost at Midnight” |
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“Ode on Dejection” |
| Narrative Poems |
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” - [extract - 1p.] |
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“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” [condensed; 3pp.] |
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Ancient Mariner - ill. Gustave Doré (engravings) |
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“Christabel” (shorter extract) |
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“Christabel” (longer extract) |
| Prose |
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Biographia Literaria (on Lyrical Ballads) |
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A person from Porlock (from Biog. Lit.) |
| Commentary |
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Norton Anthology - Introduction to Coleridge |
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A biographical note on Coleridge [BS] |
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Lord Byron on Coleridge (verse quip) |
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Graham Hough on Coleridge (Romantics Poets, 1953; 2017) |
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Graham Hough on “Ancient Mariner” (op. cit., 1953; 2017) |
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| Poetry |
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“To a Skylark” |
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“Ode to the West Wind” |
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“Adonais” (Elegy on Keats) |
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“Men of England (1839)” |
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“Mont Blanc” |
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“Oxymandius” & “England 1819” |
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“Love’s Philosophy” |
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“The Sensitive Plant” |
| Prose |
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“A Defence of Poetry” [abbrev.] |
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“Defence of Poetry” [full text] |
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“What is Love?” |
| Biography |
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Life of Shelley (Biography.com) |
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Graham Hough on Shelley (in The Romantics Poets, 1953; 2017) |
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“Shelley” (Poetry Foundation) |
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“Shelley” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) |
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| Poems |
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“Ode to a Nightingale” [Ode] |
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“Ode to Autumn” [Ode] |
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“Ode to a Grecian Urn” (Ode) |
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“La Belle Dame San Merci” [Ballad-romance] |
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Endymion (Stanza 1) |
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Some Sonnets of John Keats |
| Prose |
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‘Negative Capability’ (in Letters of John Keats) |
| Commentary |
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Graham Hough on Keats (The Romantics Poets 1953) - full chapter |
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—Hough on ”Realm of Flora” (Early Poems - sect.)
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—Hough on ”Negative Capability” (Keats’s poetics - sect.)
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| Poetry (lyrics) |
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“The Assyrian Came down Like and Wolf on the Fold” |
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“We”ll Go No More a Roving” |
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Swimming the Hellespont” |
| Longer Poems |
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“Child Harold’s Travels” (1812-1818) |
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“Don Juan” (1820-32) - Prologue |
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“Don Juan (Dona Inez) |
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Synopsis of Don Juan |
| Comment |
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Matthew Arnold on Byron (Preface to Byron’s Poems) |
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Graham Hough on Byron (The Romantic Poets, 1953; 2017) |
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| THE VICTORIANS
(LATER ROMANTICS |
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| Poems |
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“The Charge of the Light Brigade” |
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“Mariana” |
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“The Lady of Shalott” |
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“Crossing the Bar” |
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“I Envy Not ..” (from In Memoriam, VII) |
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In Memoriam [abbrev. - 1p.] |
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In Memorian [longer extract] |
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“The Lotus Eaters” |
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“Ulysses” [after Homer |
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| Poetry |
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“The Merman” (1849) |
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“Dover Beach” (1867) |
| Prose |
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“A Hundred Great Men” (1877) |
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“Sweetness and Light” (1p extract from op. cit.) |
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Culture and Anarchy (1867) [longer extract] |
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“The Engiish Race” (from Culture and Anarchy |
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The Study of Poetry (1880; 2p extract) |
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The Study of Poetry (1880) [longer extract] |
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| Lyric Poetry |
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“Love Among the Ruins” - Romancing in Rome |
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“All’s Right With the World!” - Pippa Passes |
| Dramatic Monologues |
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“My Last Duchess” - The Duke of Ferrara says all he needs ... |
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“Fra Lippo Lippi” - A Renaissance Painter’s mind and art |
| Narrative Poems |
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“How They Brought the Good News from Ghent” |
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“The Pied Piper” |
| Extra ... |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride” |
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Longfellow’s “Song of Hiawatha” [extract] |
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MODERN POETRY in ENGLISH |
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