ENGL 3653: English Literature II                         Spring 2010                                                        Mercer

                                                                  Unit 1: The Romantic Period

For help in understanding literary terms throughout the course, refer to “Literary Terminology,” an appendix that appears in the back of each volume of your textbook.  

                                                                                    Jan. 14

Introduction to course                                                     

Jan. 21

AThe Romantic Period,@ “Revolution and Reaction,” “The Spirit of the Age,” 1-8(t)

AWilliam Blake,@ 76-79(m)

Songs of Innocence (81 footnote): “Introduction,” 81(m); AThe Ecchoing Green,@ 83(b)-84(m); AThe Lamb,@ 83(m)-84(t); AThe Chimney Sweeper,@ 85; AThe Divine Image,@ 85(b)-86(t); AHoly Thursday,@ 86; ANurse=s Song,@ 86(b)-87(t); AInfant Joy,@ 87

Songs of Experience: AIntroduction,@ 87; AThe Clod & the Pebble,@ 89; AHoly Thursday,@ 90; AThe Chimney Sweeper,@ 90; ANurse=s Song,@ 90(b)-91(t); AThe Sick Rose,@ 91; AThe Tyger,@ 92-93(m); AMy Pretty Rose Tree,@ 93;  AThe Human Abstract,@ 95; AInfant Sorrow,@ 95(b); AA Poison Tree,@ 96; AA Divine Image,@ 97(t)

 

ARobert Burns,@ 129-31(t)

ATo a Mouse,@ 135-36(m); ATo a Louse,@ 136(m)-37; AAuld Lang Syne,@ 137(b)-38(m); AAfton Water,@ 138(m)-39(t); ATam o= Shanter: A Tale,@ 139-44(m); ARobert Bruce=s March to Bannockburn,@ 145; AA Red, Red Rose,@ 145(b)-46(t); ASong: For a= that and a= that,@ 146-47

 

AMary Wollstonecraft,@ 167(m)-70

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 170(b)-74(t) [Extra credit: 174-95]

                                                                                         

                                                                                    Jan. 28

APoetic Theory and Poetic Practice,@ 8-16(m)

AWilliam Wordsworth,@ 243-45

APreface to Lyrical Ballads,@ 262, 264(m)-65(b), 273 (read the one complete paragraph)

Lyrical Ballads: ALines Written in Early Spring,@ 250; AExpostulation and Reply,@ 250(b)-51; AThe Tables Turned,@ 251(b)-52; ALines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,@ 258(m)-62(t)

[The “Lucy poems”]: AStrange fits of passion have I known,@ 274(m)-75(t); AShe dwelt among the untrodden ways,@ 275; AThree years she grew,@ 275(b)76; AA slumber did my spirit seal,@ 276(b)-77(t); AI travelled among unknown men,@ 277

ALucy Gray,@ 277(b)-79(m); AMichael,@ 292-301; AI wandered lonely as a cloud,@ 305(b)-06(m); AMy heart leaps up,@ 306; AOde: Intimations of Immortality,@ 306(b)-12; AThe Solitary Reaper,@ 314-15(t)

Sonnets: AComposed upon Westminster Bridge,@ 317; AIt is a beauteous evening,@ 317; AThe world is too much with us,@ 319; ASurprised by joy,@ 320

The Prelude, 322(m)-24(t) (introduction only)

 

ADorothy Wordsworth,@ 389-90

The Grasmere Journals: A[Oct. 11-12, 1800],@ 393(b)-94(m); A[Apr. 15, 1802],@ 396(m)-97(t); A[July 1802],@ 400

AGrasmereCA Fragment,@ 402-04(m); AThoughts on My Sick-Bed,@ 404(m)-05

                                                                                         

                                                                                     Feb. 4

ASamuel Taylor Coleridge,@ 424-26(m)

AThe Eolian Harp,@ 426(m)-28(t); AThe Rime of the Ancient Mariner,@ 430-46(m); AKubla Khan,@ 446(m)-48

Stevie Smith, AThoughts about the Person from Porlock,@ 2375(m)-77(t) [Please note that this one poem is found is the third volume of our textbook, Volume F.]

 

 AChristabel, Part 1@ 449-57(t)                                   

Biographia Literaria, 474 (introduction only)

 

ASir Walter Scott,@ 406-07(m)

“The Lay of the Last Minstrel,” 407(b)-09

AProud Maisie,@ 410

 

AProse,” 18-19(t)

AThe Novel,@ 20-22

“Jane Austen,” 514-15

ACharles Lamb,@ 491(m)-92

AChrist=s Hospital Five-and-Thirty Years Ago,@ 496-505(t)

 

AWilliam Hazlitt,@ 537-38(t)

AMy First Acquaintance with Poets,@ 541-54

                                                                                         

                                                                                    Feb. 11

AGeorge Gordon, Lord Byron,@ 607-11(m)

AWritten after Swimming from Sestos to Abydos,@ 611(m)-12(m); AShe walks in beauty,@ 612; AThey say that Hope is happiness,@ 613; AWhen we two parted,@ 613(m)-14(m); AStanzas for Music,@ 614; ADarkness,@ 614(b)-16(m); ASo, we=ll go no more a roving,@ 616; AStanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa,@ 734; AJanuary 22nd. Missolonghi,@ 735

Childe Harold=s Pilgrimage, 617 (introduction only)

ADrama,@ 19(m)-20(t)

Manfred, 635(m)-36(m) (introduction only)

Don Juan, 669-70(t) (introduction only)

 

APercy Bysshe Shelley,@ 741(m)-44(m)

ATo Wordsworth,@ 744(b)-45(t); AHymn to Intellectual Beauty,@ 766(m)-68(m); AOzymandias,@ 768; AOde to the West Wind,@ 772(b)-75(t)

Prometheus Unbound, 775 (introduction only)

ATo a Sky-Lark,@ 817-19(m)

Byron=s letter ATo Percy Bysshe Shelley@ about Keats=s death, 740-41(t)

Adonais, 823-35

A Defence of Poetry, 837(m)-38(t) (introduction only)

 

AMary Wollstonecraft Shelley,@ 955(b)58(t)

                                                                                         

                                                                                    Feb. 18

                                                                          First half of period

AJohn Keats,@ 878-80

[Sonnets]: AOn First Looking into Chapman=s Homer,@ 880(b)-81(t); AOn Seeing the Elgin Marbles,@ 883;  AWhen I have fears that I may cease to be,@ 888

The Eve of St. Agnes, 888(b)-98(t)

ALa Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad,@ 899-900(m)

[The Great Odes]: AOde to Psyche,@ 901-02; AOde on a Grecian Urn,@ 905-06; AOde on Melancholy,@ 906(b)-08(t); ATo Autumn,@ 925(b)-26

                                                             Second half of period: Unit 1 exam

Submit essay written out of class

Take objective exam in class