Romanticism and Modern Literature(36151-01)

Spring 2025

Chankil Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Office Hour: Mon 12:30-13:30 by Appointment, Tel: 02-3277-2160)

Class: 853 Hakkwan, Mon 14:00-15:15/ Wed 12:30-13:45.

Course Description: This is an introductory lecture on the literary works produced in Britain during the Romantic period in which the idea of modernity was first conceived. The canonical poems by the six major poets are still the main targets of course, but they will be explored in the context of the modernity that has expressed itself in all aspects of British society after the French Revolution. Main emphasis falls on a close reading of the key texts such as "London," "Tintern Abbey," and "Ode to a Nightingale," but they will be read more as a part of artistic expression of the modern mind we still share in the 21st century.

Text: Norton Anthology II(8th edition) or any other downloadable texts from electronic sources

Language: This course will be taught in Korean.

Requirements: Two Exams

Evaluation: Attendance and Class Participation 10%, Midterm Exam 45%, Final Exam 45%.

Attendance and Tardiness: Failing to attend the class 10 times or more will automatically result in F. Being late more than 10 minutes will count as a late attendance and two late attendances will count as one absence.

Tentative Schedule

March

5 General Introduction I: Why do we read Poetry?

10 General Introduction II: Why the Romantic Poetry in the 21st century?

12 Introduction: British Romantics and the Romantic Poetry

17 Blake: Revolution

19 From Songs of Innocence and Experiences: “The Chimney Sweeper” “London”

24 From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

26 Wordsworth: The Growth of Mind

31 “Tintern Abbey”

April

2 Continued.

7 From “The Ruined Cottage”(ll.54-93, ll.152-185, ll.221-237, ll.447-538)

9 Continued.

14 From The Prelude(1850)(ll. 105-305 in Bk 11; ll. 208-335 in Bk 12; ll. 1-62 in Bk 14)

16 From The Prelude(1850) Continued.

21 Review

23-25 No Class: Midterm Exam Period

28 Midterm Exam

30 Coleridge: Dream

May

7 Biographia Literaria

12 "Kubla Khan"

14 Byron: Europe

19 From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage(Canto I: 1-4, 25-27; Canto II: 72-73)

21 Continued

26 Continued(Canto III: 5-7, 12, 15-16, 97, Canto IV: 137-138)

28 Shelley: Eternity

June

2 From “Adonais”: Stanzas 1-4, 21-22.

4 continued

9 Keats: Beauty, "Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art"

11 "Ode to a Nightingale"

16 Continued

18 General Review

23 Final Exam

*Reading Schedule is only tentative and some changes can take place also in the list of poems, which will be announced at the first class.