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Academic Year 2002/2003

Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation
ENGL 288 FA

This course is an introduction to major poets and themes: nature; memory, imagination, and creativity; and the poetic "I"; form and prosody; responses to French Revolution and social and economic change. Focusing on issues of nation, gender, politics, and form, it places poets in conversation with one another and with broader dialogues about poetics, politics, and society that were taking place during the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

MAJOR READINGS

Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Coleridge, Keats, Smith, Barbauld, Scott.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Seven short close readings. (3p.)

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

This course reserves spaces for first-year students and sophomores.

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UGRD    Credit: 1    Gen Ed Area Dept: HA ENGL    Grading Mode: Graded   

Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-18-2003

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