ENGL288 - Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation

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Academic Year 2005/2006

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; 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.

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Four essays (5-6p.); final examination.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

There is almost no overlap between the material covered in this course and that considered in 'The 1790s'--a few poems are read in both courses, but in very different contexts.
This course carries a research option for English majors intending to write an honors thesis.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture/Discussion

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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

Prerequisites: NONE

SECTION 01

Instructor(s): Weiner,Stephanie Kuduk

Times: ..T.R.. 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: BTFDA413;

Reserved Seats: (Total Limit: 40)

SR. major: 20 Jr. major: 15

SR. non-major: 2 Jr. non-major: 1 SO: 2 FR: 0

Special Attributes:

Curricular Renewal: Writing

Links to Web Resources For This Course.

Last Updated on MAR-30-2006