British Romantic
Poetry(G11960)
Spring 2016
Chankil
Park(ckpark@ewha.ac.kr, 316 Humanities Bd., Tel: 02-3277-2160)
Class:
201 Humanities Bd. Thursday 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 or
later 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
10 Burns: "Tam o’ Shanter: A Tale"
17 Blake: "The Marriage of Heaven and
Hell"
24 Wordsworth: "The Ruined Cottage"
31 Wordsworth:
"The Two-Part Prelude"
April
7 Coleridge: "The Ancient Mariner"
14 Coleridge:
"Christabel"
21 Review
28 Byron:
"Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage"Canto III
May
5 Byron: "Childe Harold’s
Pilgrimage"Canto IV
12 Shelley: "Alastor"
19 Shelley: "Adonais"
26 Keats: "The Eve of St Agnes"
June
2 Keats: "The Fall of Hyperion"
9 Review
Select Bibliography
Anthologies of
Romantic Criticism
Harold
Bloom, Romanticism and Consciousness: Essays in Criticism, New York: Norton,
1970.
Karl
Kroeber and Gene W. Ruoff, Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism, New
Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers UP, 1993.
Cynthia
Chase, Romanticism, New York: Longman, 1993.
Duncan
Wu, Romanticism: A Critical Reader, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995.
Criticisms on
Romantic Narrative Poems
Kroeber,
Karl, Romantic Narrative Art, Madison: Wisconsin UP, 1960
Peter
J. Manning, Reading Romantics: Text and Context, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1990.
John
Spencer Hill, Keats, the narrative poems, London: Macmillan Press, 1983.
Wolfson,
Susan J., Formal Charges: The Shaping of Poetry in British Romanticism,
Standord: Stanford UP, 1997
Curran,
Stuart, Poetic Form and British Romanticism, Oxford: Oxford UP, 1986.
