Week 9, Romanticism
03/23. Wed. Romanticism: Poetry of Nature and Self-Consciousness. William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Walt Whitman. Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" (1008-09, both versions from Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience); "London" (658), "The Sick Rose" (767), "The Tyger" (1007-08). Wordsworth's "She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways" (681), "Tintern Abbey" (1048-51). Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" (1010-11). Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" (817-20). Keats' "On the Sonnet" (835-36), "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (836-37), "Ode to a Nightingale" (1031-33),"Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1033-34), "To Autumn" (1034-35). Whitman's "I celebrate myself, and sing myself" (686).
Please see my blog entries for English 212 British Lit. since 1760, Spring 2011 -- they offer comments on most or all of the material we covered for this class, and more.
