British Romantic Poetry(G11960)

Spring 2018

hankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Tel: 02-3277-2160)

Class: 201 Humanities Bd. Thursday 15:30-18:15

The main purpose of this course is to read a series of romantic narrative poems with a keen awareness of their formal principles. The canonical texts by well-known romantics that have manageable length will be read during the course, and very close readings are required.

Text: Norton Anthology II (8th edition)and some other electronic texts downloadable from the Web.

Evaluation: Response papers 40%, Attendance and Class Performance 10%, One Term Paper 50%

Tentative Reading Schedule

March

8    Introduction

15   Blake: "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"

22   Blake: “Visions of Daughters of Albion”

29   Wordsworth: The Prelude(1805) I

April

5    Wordsworth: The Prelude(1805) II

12  Wordsworth: The Prelude(1805) III

19   Review

26  Wordsworth: The Prelude(1805) IV

May

3    Coleridge: "The Ancient Mariner"

10   Coleridge: "Christabel"

17   Shelley: "Alastor"

24   Shelley: "Adonais"

June

7     Keats: "The Eve of St Agnes"

14   Keats: "The Fall of Hyperion"

21  Term paper due