AJ24060 English Romantic Poetry

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2003
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Michael Kaylor, M.A. (lecturer), Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A. (deputy)
Guaranteed by
Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Michaela Hrazdílková
Timetable
Mon 13:20–14:55 32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course will engage the texts and contexts of the English Romantic Poets, namely Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Special attention will be paid to how various poetical forms are employed for biographical, political, social, cultural, and religious ends. This period is unique for its aspirations as much as its accomplishments, for its conception of the poet as a strikingly prophetic and monumental figure - as Shelley will claim in the last statement of his Defence of Poetry, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World."
Syllabus
  • Week 1
  • Introduction to Romanticism (Norton, vol. 2, p. 1)
  • Week 2
  • Introduction to William Blake (18)
  • William Blake, "The Lamb" (29)
  • William Blake, "The Little Black Boy" (30)
  • William Blake, "The Chimney Sweeper" (30)
  • William Blake, "The Tyger" (37)
  • William Blake, "London" (39)
  • Weeks 3-4
  • Introduction to William Wordsworth (126)
  • William Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (140)
  • William Wordsworth, "We Are Seven" (132)
  • William Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey" (136)
  • William Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" (195)
  • William Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" (198)
  • William Wordsworth, "London, 1802" (199)
  • Week 5
  • Introduction to Samuel Taylor Coleridge (323)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Statesman's Manual (398)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Eolian Harp" (326)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (328)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Kubla Khan" (346)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight" (365)
  • Week 6
  • Submit an essay on one of the following:
  • William Blake, "Holy Thursday" I and II (32, 35)
  • William Wordsworth, The Prelude, Book I, lines 340-424 (207)
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "To William Wordsworth" (372)
  • Student-led discussion about these poems
  • Weeks 7-8
  • Introduction to George Gordon, Lord Byron (479)
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron, "She Walks in Beauty" (484)
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred (513)
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Epistle to Augusta" (photocopy)
  • Weeks 9-10
  • Introduction to Percy Bysshe Shelley (643)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To a Skylark" (710)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (670)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" (676)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "To Wordsworth" (648)
  • Weeks 11-12
  • Introduction to John Keats (766)
  • John Keats, "Ode to Psyche" (788)
  • John Keats, "Ode to a Nightingale&" (790)
  • John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (792)
  • John Keats, "Ode on Melancholy" (794)
  • John Keats, "To Autumn" (813)
  • Optional resubmission of first essay, both improved and with earlier version (week 12)
  • Week 13
  • Submit an essay on one of the following:
  • George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Stanzas Written on the Road between Florence and Pisa" (489)
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley, "England in 1819" (674)
  • John Keats, "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" and "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Again" (769, 775)
  • Student-led discussion about these poems
Literature
  • Bloom, Harold. The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (Ithaca:Cornell UP, 1987)
  • The Norton anthology of English literature. Edited by M. H. Abrams. 5th ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1986, xlvi, 2578. ISBN 0393954722. info
Assessment methods (in Czech)
To augment and deepen our discussion of Romantic poetry, students will be expected to write two essays (for weeks 6 and 13). Each essay (4 pages, typed, double-spaced) should have a well-crafted thesis, should be scholarly in tone, and should endeavor to support all claims textually through the materials listed below. At the end of the course (week 12), students will have the option to resubmit the first essay after my corrections, though substantial changes (in more than grammar and such technicalities) will be needed to raise the earlier grade. Students will also be expected to lead discussions on weeks 6 and 13, navigating their fellow students through the poems they engaged in their essays. There will be no final exam. To augment and deepen our discussion of Romantic poetry, students will be expected to write two essays (for weeks 6 and 13). Each essay (4 pages, typed, double-spaced) should have a well-crafted thesis, should be scholarly in tone, and should endeavor to support all claims textually through the materials listed below. At the end of the course (week 12), students will have the option to resubmit the first essay after my corrections, though substantial changes (in more than grammar and such technicalities) will be needed to raise the earlier grade. Students will also be expected to lead discussions on weeks 6 and 13, navigating their fellow students through the poems they engaged in their essays. There will be no final exam. Final grades will be divided in the following proportions: 30% for attendance and class participation; 30% for the first essay; 40% for the second essay. A final grade of 70% will be necessary to receive credit for this course. Final grades will be divided in the following proportions: 30% for attendance and class participation; 30% for the first essay; 40% for the second essay. A final grade of 70% will be necessary to receive credit for this course.
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course is taught only once.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2000, Autumn 2004, Autumn 2005, Autumn 2009.
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