9/22

Barbauld, “The Mouse’s Petition to Dr. Priestley” (62-3); Wordsworth, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” (512); Coleridge, “Kubla Khan” (602-604)
(recommended) “Romantics and Their Contemporaries” (7-33)

9/27

“The Rights of Man and the Revolution Controversy” (104);
Burke, from Reflections on the Revolution in France (109-118); Paine, “The Rights of Man” (127-134); Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (188-201)

Response on The Marriage of Heaven and Hell due

9/29

Wordsworth, Preface to Lyrical Ballads (394-406); selections (373-394); Jeffrey, ‘[“the new poetry”]’ (429-432); Coleridge, “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison” (561-563)

Response on “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison” due

10/4

Wordsworth, “Michael” (419-429)

Response on “Michael” due

10/6

“The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade” (214-215); Prince, “The History of Mary Prince” (224-229); Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq.” (245-247); Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (163-88)

Response on one of Blake’s songs due

10/11

Wollstonecraft, “Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (288-308)

10/13

Barbauld, Eighteen Hundred Eleven (68-77), Croker, “Review” (76-77); Hemans, “The Wife of Asdrubal” (836-838), “Properzia Rossi” (850-853)

Response on Eighteen Hundred Eleven due

10/18

Austen, Sense and Sensibility (books 1 and 2)

10/20

Austen, Sense and Sensibility (finish book)

10/25

MIDTERM

10/27

“The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Picturesque” (34-37); Burke (37-43); Kant (44-46); Wordsworth, “There was a Boy” (407), “Nutting” (411-413), from The Prelude, Book 11, lines 243-389 (492-496), Book 13, lines 1-184 (496-500)

11/1

Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight” (563-565); Wordsworth, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood” (513-519)

Response on “Ode: Intimations of Immortality” due

11/3

Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (567-582)

11/8

Byron, Manfred (647-683)

Response on Manfred due

11/10

Percy Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (794-796), “To a Sky-Lark” (796-798); excerpts from Prometheus Unbound (online)

Response on excerpts from Prometheus Unbound due

11/15

Keats, The Eve of St. Agnes (893-904), “La belle dame sans merci” (906-907)

11/17

Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (911-913), “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (913-915), “Ode on Melancholy” (917-918), “To Autumn” (918-919)

Response on one of Keats’ odes due

11/22

Byron, Canto 1 of Don Juan (720-766)

Response on Don Juan due

11/24

Thanksgiving Holiday

11/29

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

12/1

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Paper Due (hand in your paper on this date and I will return it with comments and grade on the day of the final)

12/6

Final Examination 1:30-4:00pm

Paper Due (hand in your paper on this date if you did not submit it on December 1)