Instructor: Joseph Hogan
Office: Heide 431
Phone: 472-5048
E-mail: hoganj@uwwvax.uww.edu
Home Page:
http://www.uww.edu/personal/fac/hoganj/hoganhom.htm
Office Hours: WF 9:50-10:50, MW 2:05-3:30, and by appointment.
BOOKS FOR THE COURSE:
Textbook Library: Mellor, Anne K., and Richard E. Matlak, eds.
British Literature, 1780-1830. New York: Harcourt, 1996.
Bookstore: Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. Oxford: Oxford
UP, 1990
PURPOSE:
In this course we will explore the literature of the Romantic
Period, examining the major literary forms used by the Romantics
and looking into the major themes and ideas dominating the age.
We will follow the literature as it unfolds during the period,
reading it chronologically.
WORK FOR THE COURSE:
Two essay examinations.
One long project on a topic developed in consultation with me. This may be a traditional critical paper (8-10 pages) or a hypertext project of similar scope.
Position papers: Each student will write two to three position papers. A student will present a thesis, taking a critical position on a poem or group of poems or other work and develop it in a short (about 2 pages) paper. Students assigned a position paper for a given week will present it to the class. The purpose of these assignments is to start you thinking about the works, to help you develop your own approach to the subject, and to provide material for class discussion.
Class participation: You are expected to not only attend class and keep up with the assignments, but also to talk in class.
Your grade for the course will be based on the essay exams (40%), the critical paper (20%), position papers (20%), and class participation (20%).
Graduate students see me about an extra project for graduate credit.
RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE: Students with a conflict between an academic requirement and a religious observance will be given an alternative means of meeting the academic requirement provided the student notifies the instructor in writing two weeks before the assignment is due.
STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS: Students with disabilities or special needs requiring special arrangements should contact the instructor.
ACADEMIC MISCONDUCT: Cheating, plagiarism, the use of unauthorized material or any other form of academic misconduct will result in a severe penalty as permitted by UWS Chapter 14.
1784: Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (to 1797) (227)
1788: More, Slavery, A Poem (206)
1789: Blake, Songs of Innocence (277)
1790: Williams, Letters from France, Vol. I, Letters I-V (508- 12)
1791: Barbauld, "Epistle to Wilberforce" (169)
1792: Williams, Letters from France, Vol. II (523-24)
1793: Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (186)
Smith, The Emigrants, Book 1 (231-38)
Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (287)
1794: Blake, Songs of Experience (299), The Book of Urizen (304)
1795: Yearsley, "To Mira, On the Care of Her Infant" (268)
1797: Barbauld, "Washing Day" (187)
Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (698; see
revised version 734), "This Lime-Tree Bower" (709),
"Christabel" (721), "Kubla Khan" (729)
1798: Wordsworth, "We Are Seven" (566), "The Thorn" (567),
"Expostulation and Reply" (571), "The Tables Turned"
(571), "Tintern Abbey" (571), "Strange Fits of Passion"
(582), "Song" [She dwelt among the untrodden ways]
(582), "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" (582)
Coleridge, "Fears in Solitude" (694), "Frost at Midnight"
(697), "The Nightingale" (707)
1799: Wordsworth, "Three Years She Grew" (586), The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 (624)
1800: Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (352), Lyrical Tales ["All Alone" (321), "The Poor Singing Dame" (322), "The Alien Boy" (326)]
1801: Edgeworth, from Belinda [Rights of Women] (541)
Wordsworth, "I Travell'd among Unknown Men" (593)
1802: Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence" (593),
"Prefatory Sonnet" (595), "It Is a Beauteous Evening"
(596), "To Toussant L'ouverture" (598), "London 1802"
(599), "My Heart Leaps Up" (600)
Coleridge, "Dejection" (711)
1804: Wordsworth, "She Was a Phantom of Delight" (593), "The World Is Too Much with Us" (596), "Ode" (603)
1805: Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" (599)
1806: Smith, "Beachy Head" (244-56)
Wordsworth, "Elegiac Stanzas" (602)
Taylor, "The Star" (839)
1807: Wordsworth, "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (601)
Coleridge, "To a Gentleman" (743)
1811: Austen, Sense and Sensibility
1814: Wordsworth, "Surprised by Joy" (622)
1815: Shelley, "To Wordsworth" (1062)
1816: Taylor, "Recreation" (844)
Byron, "Prometheus" (920)
Shelley, "Mont Blanc" (1062), "Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty" (1065)
Keats, "How Many Bards" (1257), "On . . . Chapman's Homer"
(1257)
1817: Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (745)
Byron, Manfred (927)
Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1066)
Keats, "Elgin Marbles" (1261), Selected Letters (1261-77,
1309-11)
1818: Keats, "When I Have Fears" (1312)
1819: Byron, Don Juan, Canto 1 (954-980)
Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" (1101)
Keats, "La Belle Dame" (1278, see revised version 1313),
"The Eve of St. Agnes" (1279), "Ode to Psyche" (1295),
"Ode to a Nightingale" (1296), "Ode to a Grecian Urn"
(1297), "Ode on Melancholy" (1298), "To Autumn" (1308),
"Ode On Indolence" (1312)
1820: Shelley, "To a Skylark" (1138)
1821: Shelley, "Adonais" (1140), Defence of Poetry (1167)
1826: Hemans, "The Graves of a Household" (1226), "To the Poet Wordsworth" (1226), "Casabianca" (1226)
1832: Baillie, "Lines on the Death of Scott" (494)
1835: Wordsworth, "Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg" (622)
1784: Smith, Elegiac Sonnets (to 1797) (227)
1788: More, Slavery, A Poem (206)
1789: Blake, Songs of Innocence (277)
1790: Williams, Letters from France, Vol. I, Letter I-V (508-12)
1791: Barbauld, "Epistle to Wilberforce" (169)
1792: Williams, Letters from France, Vol. II (523-24)
1793: Smith, The Emigrants, Book 1 (231-38)
Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (287)
1794: Blake, Songs of Experience (299), The Book of Urizen (304)
1796: Yearsley, "To Mira, On the Care of Her Infant" (268)
1798: Wordsworth and Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads [WW: "We Are
Seven" (566), "The Thorn" (567), "Expostulation and
Reply" (571), "The Tables Turned" (571), "Tintern
Abbey" (571); STC: The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere
(698; see revised version 734), "The Nightingale"
(707)]
Coleridge, "Fears in Solitude" (694), "Frost at Midnight"
(697)
1800: Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (352), Lyrical Tales
["All Alone" (321), "The Poor Singing Dame" (322), "The
Alien Boy" (326)]BR>
Wordsworth, "Strange Fits of Passion" (582), "Song" {She
dwelt among the untrodden ways] (582), "A Slumber Did
My Spirit Seal" (582), "Three Years She Grew" (586)
Coleridge, "This Lime-Tree Bower" (709)
1801: Edgeworth, from Belinda [Rights of Women] (541)
1802: Coleridge, "Dejection" (711)
1803: Wordsworth, "To Toussant L'ouverture" (598)
1806: Taylor, "The Star" (839)
1807: Smith, "Beachy Head" (244)
Wordsworth, "She Was a Phantom of Delight" (593), "I
Travell'd among Unknown Men" (593), "Resolution and
Independence" (593), "Prefatory Sonnet" (595), "The
World Is Too Much with Us" (596), "It Is a Beauteous
Evening" (596), "London 1802" (599), "The Solitary
Reaper" (599), "My Heart Leaps Up" (600), "I Wandered
Lonely as a Cloud" (601), "Elegiac Stanzas" (602),
"Ode" (603)
1811: Austen, Sense and Sensibility
1815: Wordsworth, "Surprised by Joy" (622)
1816: Coleridge, "Christabel" (721), "Kubla Khan" (729)
Taylor, "Recreation" (844)
Byron, "Prometheus" (920)
Shelley, "To Wordsworth" (1062)
Keats, "On . . . Chapman's Homer" (1257)
1817: Coleridge, "To a Gentleman" (743), Biographia Literaria
(745)
Byron, Manfred (927)
Shelley, "Mont Blanc" (1062), "Hymn to Intellectual
Beauty" (1065)
Keats, "How Many Bards" (1257), "Elgin Marbles" (1261),
Selected Letters (1261-77, 1309-11)
1818: Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1066)
1819: Byron, Don Juan, Canto 1 (954-980)
1820: Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" (1101), "To a Skylark"
(1138)
Keats, "La Belle Dame" (1278, see revised version 1313),
"The Eve of St. Agnes" (1279), "Ode to Psyche" (1295),
"Ode to a Nightingale" (1296), "Ode to a Grecian Urn"
(1297), "Ode on Melancholy" (1298), "To Autumn" (1308)
1821: Shelley, "Adonais" (1140)
1825: Barbauld, "The Rights of Woman" (186), "Washing Day" (187)
1826: Hemans, "The Graves of a Household" (1226), "To the Poet Wordsworth" (1226), "Casabianca" (1226)
1836: Wordsworth, "Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg" (622)
1840: Baillie, "Lines on the Death of Scott" (494)
Shelley, A Defence of Poetry (1167)
1848: Keats, "When I Have Fears" (1312), "Ode on Indolence" (1312)
1973: Wordsworth, The Two-Part Prelude of 1799 (624)