Romanticism and Modern Literature 2023

Introduction

General Introduction: the Age of Romanticism

Blake

Blake: an Introduction
Chimney Sweepers from Songs of Experience and Innocence
London
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
A Song of Liberty

Wordsworth

Wordsworth: Introduction
Tintern Abbey
The Ruined Cottage
The Prelude
The Preface to Lyrical Ballads
What is Elegy?
The Prelude I: "Imagination"
The Prelude II: "Spots of Time"
The Prelude III: "A Hunger-bitten girl"

Coleridge

Coleridge: An Introduction
Biographia Literaria
Kubla Khan
Some comments on Coleridge's idea of imagination

Byron

Byron: an introduction
Byronic Hero
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage Canto I & II
Canto III
Canto IV

Shelley

Shelley: An Introduction
Shelley's Defence of Poetry
Adonais

Keats

Keats: An Introduction
Keats's ideas of Poetry from his letters
Ode to a Nightingale
"Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art"