Nature and the Arts
Texts
E. Burke. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. Oxford.
J. Clare. The Major Works. Oxford World’s Classics.
Gilpin, William. Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty. ed. Graver.
Handout.
G. Reynolds. Turner. Thames and Hudson.
M. Rosenthal. Constable. Thames and Hudson.
Virgil. Eclogues. trans. Lee. Penguin
Virgil. The Georgics. trans. Wilkinson. Penguin.
W. Wordsworth, The Major Poems. ed. Gill. Oxford World's Classics.
In addition, there will be handouts and reserve readings.
Schedule of Assignments
Jan 18 Introduction
Jan 23 Virgil’s Eclogues.
Jan 25 Virgil’s Georgics, Books 1 and 2.
Jan 30 Virgil’s Georgics,
Books 3 and 4
Feb 1 Continental Landscape Painting:
Claude, Poussin, Rubens, and Ruisdael: National
Gallery of Art and Reserve Readings
Feb 6 Continental Landscape Painting: Claude, Poussin, Rubens, and Ruisdael: National Gallery of Art and Reserve Readings
Feb 8 Neoclassical Landscape Poetry: Thomson’s The Seasons: Spring (handout)
Feb 13 Neoclassical Landscape Poetry: Pastoral Elegy Milton’s Lycidas and Gray’s Elegy (handout)
Feb 15 Neoclassical Landscape Theory: Edmund Burke Enquiry into … the Sublime and the Beautiful
Feb 20 Neoclassical Landscape Theory: William Gilpin’s Three Essays on Picturesque Beauty
Illustrations for Gilpin facing page 19 facing page 74 facing page 75 facing page 77 facing page 87
Feb 22 Thomas Gainsborough: National Gallery of Art, Tate Gallery and Handout
Feb 27 Picturesque Tourism : The Alps (handout)
5-7
PAPER DUE
Mar 1 Midterm Examination
Mar 13 Picturesque Tourism: The Lake District (handout)
Mar 15 W. Wordsworth, "Tintern Abbey:" Gill 131-135 and handout
Mar 20 W. Wordsworth: “The Brothers” as Pastoral Elegy :Gill, 155-168
Mar 22 W. Wordsworth: “Michael” as Georgic Pastoral: Gill, 224-236
Mar 27 W. Wordsworth, “Poems on the Naming of Places:” Gill, 199-206
Mar 29 Clare, Bloomfield, and the Peasant Poet:
Clare and handout
Apr 3 J. Clare and Environmental Poetry: Clare.
Apr 10 Constable: Early Years: Rosenthal and Tate Gallery
Apr 12 Constable: Middle Years: Rosenthal and Tate Gallery
Apr 17 Constable: The Six-Footers: Rosenthal and Tate Gallery
Apr 19 Constable:
Late Years: Rosenthal and Tate
Gallery
Apr 24 Turner: Early Years: Reynolds and Tate Gallery
Apr 26 Turner: Middle Years: Reynolds and Tate Gallery
May 1 Turner: Late Years: Reynolds and Tate Gallery
May 3 More Late Turner: Reynolds and Tate Gallery
FINAL PAPER DUE MAY 7
FINAL EXAMINATION AT SCHEDULED DATE
1. Weekly 2-page papers in which you write reflections on the week's readings. These should be precise in focus, and exactly three paragraphs in length.
2. Class reports on assigned secondary readings. Each of you will do one of these, and it will substitute for the 2-page paper due that week. Reports will be three paragraphs in length. The first two paragraphs will summarize the author’s arguments; the last paragraph will be an evaluation of the argument, ending with a question for class discussion.
3. A short paper of 5-7 pages, due Feb. 27. This paper will be on a subject of your choosing, and approved by me.
4. A midterm examination, scheduled for March 1.
5. A long paper, 10-12 pages, due May 7. This paper will also be on a subject of your choosing, in consultation with me. Instead of a paper, you may do a substantial creative project. If you choose a creative project, you must also submit a 5-7 page paper, explaining how your project relates to course materials.
6. A final examination, on the scheduled date
1. Attendance is required in this class. Attendance on field trips is optional, as they will occur outside of class time. But it is best to attend these, if at all possible.
2. All college policies regarding academic honesty and plagiarism will be strictly enforced. See the PC Catalogue for these policies.
3. Grading policy. Class participation, weekly 2-page papers, and the class report will constitute 25% of your final grade. These will be graded on a weekly basis, but you must submit them all at the end of the semester, in portfolio format. The midterm and final will constitute 25% of your grade. The short paper will count for 15% of your grade, and the final project 35%.
Bruce E. Graver
Library 130
beg@providence.edu
Last updated January 9, 2007
