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FORM OF POETRY Section 001 / Fall 2004 / Susan Tichy / Tuesday 7:20-10:00 / Thompson Hall 106 WEEK 7: ROMANTICISM: what was it? what is it? WHAT WE’LL COVER Philosophical origins, the Romantic Sublime PROSE READING: BOOKS & PHOTOCOPIES Anthony Easthope: Poetry as Discourse, Chapter 8: "The continuities
of Romanticism" Bookstore photocopies: Jerome McGann: "The Mental Theater of Romantic
Poems." From Romantic Ideology: A Critical Investigation. U Chicago
Press, 1983. 59-71 If you have Raffel, read chapter 14.
Intro to English Romanticism, w/ links to primary texts; POEMS BLAKE: To the Evening Star 671, all from Songs of Innocence
671, all from Songs of Experience 678, England Awake! 684 BURNS: To a Mouse 684, Holy Willie's Prayer 685, Green Grow the
Rashes 688, John Anderson 689, Tam O'Shanter 689, Bonie Doon 694, A Red
Red Rose 694, (see more readings from Burns on line, below, including the
dirty version of John Anderson) WORDSWORTH: Lines...Tintern Abbey 699, from The Prelude 714, She Dwelt Among 721, A Slumber Did 722, Composed upon Westminster Bridge 727, Nuns fret not 727, Ode: Intimations of Immortality 728, The World Is Too Much With Us 735, The Solitary Reaper 736, Surprised by Joy 736 COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan 741, Frost at Midnight 742, Rime of the Ancient
Mariner 744, Dejection: An Ode 760 BYRON: Written after swimming 766, She Walks in Beauty 767, from
Don Juan 769, Stanzas (when a man has no freedom to fight for at home) 792
SHELLEY: Hymn to Intellectual Beauty 794, Mont Blanc 796, Ozymandis
799, Adonais 807, England in 1819 800, Ode to the West Wind 801, To a Skylark
805, Mutability 819 KEATS: On first looking into Chapan's Homer 831, When I Have Fears 832, La Belle Dame Sans Merci 842 (a "literary ballad" first published anonymously), Ode to Psyche, 843, Ode to a Nightingale 845, Ode on a Grecian Urn 848, To Autum 849, This Living Hand 850 Recommended in the Norton:
Required on line: British Romantic Women Poets Site: Charlotte Smith: The Emmigrants
British Romantic Women Poets Site: Charlotte Smith: Beachy
Head
Princeton: *Romanticism, *Romantic & Postromantic Poetics, *Irony: Classical irony, Romantic irony, bathos vs. pathos, subjectivity and objectivity, synaesthesia Vocabulary (from Princeton & other readings): dramatis persona, soliloquy, monologue, dramatic monologue, aesthetic distance, dramatic irony; Coleridge's distinction between imagination and fancy, negative capability; cult of feeling;/cult of sensibility; poem of experience; Romantic displacement WHAT WE’LL DO IN CLASS 1)Review the “history of ideas” approach to the origins of Romanticism as outlined in the Princeton 2) Review major Romantic tenents from Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats & Shelley & define the "poem of experience" 3) In that context, discuss Romantic displacement and internal theater as McGann presents them, and the erasure of enunciation as Easthope defines it 4) Discuss "organic form" as it originates here, and examine responses to the gradual decline of “classical” English prosody 5) Briefly compare these notions of Romanticism to those of the Scottish tradition We will center our discussion on a few poems, probably including Robert Burns, early Blake, Charlotte Smith's "The Emmigrants" or "Beachy Head," Wordsworth's "Tintern Abbey" and/or "The Prelude" and one of Keats' Odes, maybe one of Shelley's. We'll also play some of Burns' songs.
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