The Romantic Age

Reading List

• Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions, ed. Duthie, Broadview Press.
• Edmund Burke. A Philosophical Essay into ... the Sublime and the Beautiful. Oxford World Classics.
• Sir Walter Scott, The Lady of the Lake, ed. Graver, handout.
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Oxford World Classics.
• Wolfson and Manning, Editors.  Longman Anthology of British Literature: 2A: The Romantics.

Schedule of Readings

• Sep 7 Introduction
• Sep 9  Burke's Enquiry, pp. 29-114
• Sep 14  Burke's Enquiry, pp. 115-end
• Sep 16 William Blake, Introduction, Wolfson-Manning, pp. 112-118
• Sep 21 William Blake, Songs of Innocence, W-M, pp. 118-124
• Sep 23 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience, W-M, pp. 118-135
• Sep 28 Coleridge, Conversation Poems, W-M, pp. 522-526, 562-566
• Sep 30 Coleridge, "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," W-M, pp. 526-544
• Oct 5 Coleridge, "Kubla Khan," W-M, pp. 545-547
• Oct 7 Joanna Baillie, "Introductory Discourse," Plays, pp. 67-113
• Paper 1 Due
• Oct 14 Oct 19 Joanna Baillie, De Monfort, Plays pp. 299-387.
• Oct 19 Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey," W-M, pp. 352-356
• Oct 21  Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, 1800, W-M, pp. 362-380
• Oct 26  Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" W-M, pp. 454-460
• Oct. 28  Midterm Examination
• Nov 2 Scott, The Lady of the Lake, Cantos I-III
• Nov 4 Scott, The Lady of the Lake, Cantos IV-V.
• Nov 9 M. Shelley, Frankenstein
• Nov 11 M. Shelley, Frankenstein
• Nov 16 P. Shelley, Early Poems, W-M, pp. 752-761
• Nov 18 P. Shelley, Odes, W-M, pp. 771-776
• Nov 23 Byron, Manfred, W-M, pp. 603-43.
• Nov 30 Clare, W-M, pp. 841-51.
• Dec 2 Keats, "Eve of St. Agnes," W-M. pp. 865-76.
• Dec 7 Keats, Odes, W-M, pp. 877-86.
• Dec 9 Keats, Odes, W-M, pp. 877-86.
• Final Paper due

Assignments

Assignments in this class will be of several kinds.

1. Each student will write one 5-7 page paper on material from the course. This paper will be due on October 10.
2. Each student will write a 10-12 page term paper on something from the course; it will be due on December 9.
3. There will also be a midterm (October 28) and a final exam.
4. Attendance is required, and class participation will figure in the final grade

• Instructor: Bruce Graver
• Office: Library 130
• E-mail: beg@providence.edu

This page last updated September 7, 2004