British Romantic Poetry(G11960)

Spring 2021

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

Class : Online by Zoom, Wed 12:30-15:15

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

3    Introduction: Bildung and British Romanticism

10  Wordsworth’s “Tintern Abbey” and “The Pedlar”

17  Wordsworth : The Prelude (1805) I

24   Wordsworth : The Prelude (1805) II

31 Wordsworth : The Prelude (1805) III   

April

7    Wordsworth : The Prelude (1805) IV

14   Wordsworth continued

21 Review

28  Wordsworth continued

May

5   Wordsworth continued 

12 Shelley: "Alastor"

19  Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto I

26  Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto II

June

2   Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto III

9   Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto IV

16 Keats: "The Fall of Hyperion  Term paper due