English 610 —British Romanticism

• Introduction and Course Overview
• John Donne, "A Validiction: Forbidding Mourning" (online)
• S.T. Coleridge, "To the River Otter" (online)

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• John Milton, Paradise Lost, Books I and II
• Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Butler)
• Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Women (Butler)
• Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man and The Age of Reason (Butler)
• William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (Butler)

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• W. Godwin, "Of History and Romance" (Appendix IV of Caleb Williams)
• W. Godwin, Caleb Williams
• W. Godwin, "Original Manuscript Editing" (Appendix I of CW)

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• John Denham, "Cooper's Hill" (online)
• Alexander Pope, "Windsor Forest" (online)
  
• William Wordsworth, "An Evening Walk" (Gill)
• W. Wordsworth, "Salisbury Plain" (Gill)
• Dorothy Wordsworth, from Grasmere Journals (course packet)
• Alan Liu, "The Locodescriptive Moment" from Wordsworth: The Sense of History (course packet)

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• W. Wordsworth, "The Ruined Cottage" (Gill)
• S.T. Coleridge, "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (Jackson)
• S. T. Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight" (Jackson)
• W.K. Wimsatt, Jr. "The Structure of Romantic Nature Imagery" (Bloom)
• Paul de Man, "Intentional Structure of the Romantic Image" (Bloom)

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• By W. Wordsworth (all to be found in Gill)
• "The Thorn"
• "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey"
• "The Two April Mornings"
• "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"
• "It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free"
• "September, 1802"
• "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
• "Elegiac Stanzas"
• "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads (1802)
• By S.T. Coleridge (all to be found in Jackson)
• "The Eolian Harp"
• "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
• "Kubla Khan"
• "Dejection: An Ode"
  
• M.H. Abrams, "Structure and Style in the Greater Romantic Lyric" (Bloom)
• Geoffrey H. Hartman, "Wordsworth, Inscriptions, and Romantic Nature Poetry" (Bloom)

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• W. Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude (1799) (Norton Prelude)
• W. Wordsworth, The Prelude, Books 4-6, 13 (1805) (Norton Prelude)
• Longinus, On the Sublime (course packet)
• Edmund Burke, from Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful (course packet)
• Immanuel Kant, from The Critique of Judgement (course packet)
• Geoffrey H. Hartman, "The Romance of Nature and the Negative Way" (Bloom)

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• William Wordsworth, "Bliss was it in that dawn," The Prelude, Book 10.689.727 (1805) (Norton Prelude)
• William Wordsworth, "Genius of Burke!" The Prelude, Book 7.512-543 (1850) (Norton Prelude)
• P.B. Shelley, "To Wordsworth" (Reiman)
• P.B. Shelley, Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude (Reiman)
• Lord Byron, Don Juan, Cantos I-III (McGann)
• Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto III (McGann)

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• Letters: (Hirsch)
  – To Benjamin Bailey, 22 November 1817
  – To George and Tom Keats, 21, 27 (?) December 1817
  – To G. H. Reynolds, 3 February 1818
  – To G. H. Reynolds, 3 May 1818
  – To Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818
  – To Fanny Brawne, 25 July 1819
  – To P. B. Shelley, 16 August 1820
  – To Charles Brown, 30 November 1820
  
  
• “Ode to a Nightingale” (Hirsch)
• “Ode to a Grecian Urn” (Hirsch)
• “The Eve of St. Agnes” (Hirsch)
• Lamia (Hirsch)
  

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DECEMBER 15

Seminar Papers DUE in my box by 2pm