Instructor: Joseph Hogan
Office: Heide 431
Phone: 472-5048
E-mail: hoganj@uwwvax.uww.edu
Home Page: http://facstaff.uww.edu/hoganj/hoganhom.htm
Office Hours: WF 9:50-10:50, MW 2:05-4:00, R 1:50-2:50, and by appointment.

How many bards gild the lapses of time!
A few of them have ever been the food
Of my delighted fancy,–I could brood
Over their beauties, earthly, or sublime:
And often, when I sit me down to rhyme,
These will in throngs before my mind intrude:
But no confusion, no disturbance rude
Do they occasion, 'tis a pleasing chime.
—John Keats

The Romantic Age is a period of revolution and transformation. Beginning with the American Revolution and the French Revolution, the period witnessed an agitation for democratic reform. Controversies over individual freedom rocked the age. At the same time, literature flourished, and it was one of the great ages of English poetry. The writers we will study transformed our notion of literature. For the Romantics literature became the expression of the individual imagination and individual genius. Literature was no longer just a mirror of nature: "nature to advantage dressed, / What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed."
In this class we will be focusing on the artistic inventiveness of the Romantics, examining the works formally as well as looking at the themes and ideology of the various writers. We will start by focusing on issues of poetics and mastering the vocabulary of poetic analysis, and then we will move on to analyze the works of individual writers, looking at how they expressed themselves as well as at their ideas.

Grading:
Your grade will be based on:
Three examinations (60%).
One long project developed in consultation with me. This may be a traditional critical paper (8-10 pages) or a project of similar scope (20%).
Class participation (you are expected to not only attend class and keep up with the assignments, but also to talk and actively participate in class activities) and a number of short exercises and assignments (20%).

Attendance:
Attendance involves not only being present in the class, but also prepared, having read the assignment, being ready to discuss it, and having your book with you. Mere physical presence is not enough to be counted as attending class. If you have not prepared, you may be considered as absent under this attendance policy. Each unexcused absence, starting with the 4th will result in a lowering of your final grade by ½ grade.

The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is dedicated to a safe, supportive and non-discriminatory learning environment. It is the responsibility of all undergraduate and graduate students to familiarize themselves with University policies regarding Special Accommodations, Misconduct, Religious Beliefs Accommodation, Discrimination and Absence for University Sponsored Events. (For details please refer to the Undergraduate and Graduate Timetables; the "Rights and Responsibilities" section of the Undergraduate Bulletin; the Academic Requirements and Policies and the Facilities and Services sections of the Graduate Bulletin; and the "Student Academic Disciplinary Procedures" [UWS Chapter 14]; and the "Student Nonacademic Disciplinary Procedures" [UWS Chapter 17]).Schedule–English 416

September
2R: Introduction.
7T: Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets: I (227), XXVII (227). Mary Robinson, Sappho and Phaon: "Sonnet VII" (320), "Sonnet XI" (320). William Wordsworth, "Prefatory Sonnet" (595). "The World Is Too Much with Us" (596), "It Is a Beauteous Evening" (596). Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ozymandias" (1066). John Keats, "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles" (1261), "When I have fears that I may cease to be" (1312).
9R: Anna Letitia Barbauld, "To a Lady, with Some Painted Flowers" (167), William Blake, "The Garden of Love" (302), "The Clod and the Pebble" (300). Robert Burns, "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn–" (360), "A Red Red Rose" (363). William Wordsworth, "Song" (582), "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal" (582). Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Work without Hope" (760). Jane Taylor, "The Star" (839). John Clare, "The Peasant Poet" (1251).
14T: William Blake, Songs of Innocence: "Introduction" (277), "The Lamb" (278), "The Little Black Boy" (278) "The Blossom" (279), "Nurses Song" (281). Songs of Experience: "Introduction" (299), "Nurses Song (300), "The Sick Rose" (300), "The Tyger" (301), "London" (302), "A Poison Tree" (303).
16R: Blake, Songs of Innocence: "The Chimney Sweeper" (279), "The Divine Image" (280), "Holy Thursday" (280), "Infant Joy" (281). Songs of Experience: "Holy Thursday" (300), "The Chimney Sweeper" (300), "The Human Abstract" (302), "Infant Sorrow" (303).
21T: Blake, The Book of Urizen (304).
23R: Blake, The Book of Urizen.
28T: 1st Examination.
30R: Charlotte Smith, "Beachy Head" (244).
October
5T: William Wordsworth, "We Are Seven" (566), "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tinturn Abbey (571).
7R: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (734, look also at the first version on 698), "Kubla Khan" (729).
12T: Wordsworth, "The Solitary Reaper" (599), "My Heart Leaps Up" (600), "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (601). Coleridge, "Frost at Midnight" (697), "The Nightingale" (707), "This Lime Tree Bower" (709).
14R: Wordsworth, "Michael, a Pastoral Poem" (586).
19T: Mary Robinson, "The Poor, Singing Dame" (322), "The Haunted Beach" (323), "The Alien Boy" (326).
21R: Wordsworth, "Resolution and Independence" (593), "Ode" (603). Coleridge, "Dejection: An Ode" (711).
26T: 2nd Examination.
28R: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
November
2T: Austen, Sense and Sensibility. Jane Taylor, "Recreation" (844).
4R: Mary Shelley, Mathilda (1339).
9T: George Gordon, Lord Byron, Manfred (927).
11R: Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mont Blanc" (1063), "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1065).
16T: Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" (1101), "To a Skylark" (1138).
18R: John Keats, The Eve of Saint Agnes (1279).
23T: Keats, "La Belle Dame sans Merci" (1278 and 1313, both versions).
25R: Thanksgiving.
30T: Keats, "Ode to Psyche" (1295), "Ode to a Nightingale" (1296).
December
2R: Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1297), "Ode on Melancholy" (1298)
7T: Keats, "To Autumn" (1308), "Ode on Indolence" (1312).
9R: Mary Robinson, "To the Poet Coleridge" (352). William Wordsworth, "Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg" (622). Percy Bysshe Shelly, "To Wordsworth" (1062). Felicia Hemans, "To the Poet Wordsworth" (1226). John Keats, "This living hand, now warm and capable" (1320).
14T: Conclusion.
21T, 1:00pm: Final Examination.