9/20

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)

9/25

“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); Burns, “To a Mouse” (359-360), “Is There, In Honest Poverty” (365); Percy Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (794-796)

9/27

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)

10/2

Wordsworth, “Michael” (419-429)

10/4

“The Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade” (214-215); Prince, “The History of Mary Prince” (224-229); Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience (163-88)

10/9

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

10/11

Blake, Visions of the Daughters of Albion (202-209); Hemans, “The Wife of Asdrubal” (836-838), “Properzia Rossi” (850-853)

[NEW DATE] Short Paper due  

10/16

Austen, Sense and Sensibility (books 1 and 2)

10/18

Austen, Sense and Sensibility (finish book)

10/23

MIDTERM

10/25

“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)

10/30

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

11/1

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

11/6

Byron, Manfred (647-683)

11/8

Percy Shelley, “Ozymandias” (782), “Sonnet: England in 1819” (783), “To a Sky-Lark” (796-798), lines 343-495 from Adonais (810-814)

Revision of Short Paper Due (optional) 

11/13

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

11/15

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

11/20

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

11/22

Thanksgiving Holiday

11/27

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

11/29

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

12/4

Final Examination 1:30-4:00pm

[NEW DATE] Longer Paper Due