Syllabus for English Romantic Poets: Spring 2017 OLLI Central
Facilitator: Carol Anthony Phone: 341-40-1025 Cell: 720-339-1746
email:[email protected]
Note: All page numbers are from the class text: English Romantic Writers, 2nd edition,
ed. David Perkins, Boston: Thomson/Wadsworth, 1967/1995.
Week I: March 30
I) Lecture/discussion: What was the Romantic movement and when and why did it
happen?
Reading assn.: from Lyrical Ballads: p.424: 2nd FULL paragraph to p. 425, end of 1st
paragraph; p.432: the one full paragraph on this page
2) Robert Burns: p.212: “To a Mouse”; and “To a Louse.” (handout – this poem is
readily available on line, google it if you can and read it before class)
3) William Blake: paired poems from “Songs of Innocence and Experience”:
“Introduction” p. 87 “Introduction” p. 93; “The Lamb” p. 87 “The Tyger” p.94;
“Infant Joy” p. 88 “Infant Sorrow” p. 98; “Nurse’s Song” p. 89 “Nurse’s Song” p. 93
“Holy Thursday” pp. 89-90 “Holy Thursday” p. 96; “The Chimney Sweeper” p. 90,
“The Chimney Sweeper” p. 99; “The Divine Image” p. 90 “The Divine Image” p. 99
Also: “A Poison Tree” p. 96 and “The Sick Rose” p. 96
Week II: April 6
1) William Wordsworth:
“Tintern Abbey” pp.301-303; “She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways” p.315
“Composed Upon Westminster Bridge” p.339; “The World is Too Much With Us”
p.341
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” p. 345; “She was a Phantom of Delight” p.345
2) Sir Walter Scott:
“Lochinvar” pp. 475-76 “Lay of the Last Minstrel: Canto IV” p. 474
Week: III: April 13
Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
“Kubla Khan” pp.546-47 “Christabel”: pp. 529-37
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” pp. 519-29
Week IV: April 20
1) Charles Lamb:
“Dream Children”: pp. 691-93
2) Thomas DeQuincey:
“The Pleasures and Pains of Opium”: pp.799-805
3) Lord Byron:
“She Walks in Beauty”: p. 858
“The Destruction of Sennacherib” p. 859
“Prometheus”: p. 862
from “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” : Canto III: pp. 864-72; Canto IV: pp. 873-877
Week V: April 27
1) Lord Byron, con.
From “Don Juan”: Canto I: pp. 897-924
2) Percy Shelley:
“Hymn to Intellectual Beauty” p. 1032
“Ozymandias” p. 1033
“Song to the Men of England”: p. 1080
“England in 1819”: p. 1080
“Ode to the West Wind” pp. 1086-88
“To a Skylark” pp. 1094-95
“Adonais”: pp. 1106-14
Week VI: May 4
John Keats:
“Chapman’s Homer”: p 1195
“When I Have Fears” p. 1218
“The Eve of St. Agnes”; pp. 1241-46
“La Belle Dame Sans Mercy”: pp. 1249-50
“Ode to a Nightingale”: pp. 1251-2
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”: pp. 1252-3
“To Autumn” pp. 1270-71
Week: VII: May 11
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley:
“Preface to Frankenstein”: pp. 1325-28
from “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” : pp. 226-36
Week VIII: May 18:
Catch-up Week : or, if we are ahead of the game, a movie