READINGS:
ALWAYS READ INTRODUCTIONS TO THE PERIOD, AUTHOR, and WORK
Specific Assignments and Due Dates Will be Discussed in Class
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1785-1830)
- William Blake
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
- William Wordsworth
- Lyrical Ballads - Selections
- Preface to Lyrical Ballads
- Lucy Poems
- The Ruined Cottage
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality
- Sonnets
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Kubla Khan
- Christabel
- Dejection: An Ode
- George Gordon, Lord Byron
- She Walks in Beauty
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
- Don Juan
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ozimandias
- Ode to the West Wind
- The Cloud
- To a Skylark
- Prometheus Unbound
- A Defence of Poetry
- John Keats
- The Eve of St. Agnes
- La Belle Dame sans Merci
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode on Melancholy
- Jane Austen -
Pride and Prejudice
- Mary Wollstonecraft -
Vindication of the Rights of Women - Selections
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus
THE VICTORIAN AGE (1830-1901)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Lady of Shallot
- Ulysses
- In Memoriam A.H.H. - Selections
- Robert Browning
- My Last Duchess
- Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- The Cry of the Children
- To George Sand: A Recognition
- Sonnets from the Portuguese
- Aurora Leigh
- Matthew Arnold
- The Buried Life
- The Scholar Gypsy
- Dover Beach
- Christina Rossetti
- Song ("When I am dead, my dearest")
- Goblin Market
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The Garden of Proserpine
- Ave Atque Vale
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- God's Grandeur
- The Starlight Night
- Spring
- Pied Beauty
- Spring and Fall [Carrion Comfort]
THE NINETIES
- Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray - intro
- Bernard Shaw - Mrs. Warren's Profession
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- William Butler Yeats
- When you are Old
- The Wild Swans at Coole
- Easter 1916
- The Second Coming
- Sailing to Byzantium
- Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
- Virginia Woolf - A Room of One's Own
- James Joyce
- D.H. Lawrence - Odor of Chrysanthemums
- Katherine Mansfield - The Daughers of the Late Colonel
- Dylan Thomas
- Fern Hill
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
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