Victorian Poetry and Poetics
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T 12-3
Close readings in both the poetry and the critical statements of the period, in an attempt to define the "inter-period" between Romantic and High Victorian poetry. Emphasis on the early careers of Tennyson, Browning, Arnold and Clough. Attention will be given to the nature and the role of the poet, the changing social roles of poetry, the narratological situation of poems, and the anticipations of later developments --broadly speaking, Aestheticism, Symbolism, Modernism. Some comparative readings in key 20th-century poems, as time permits. An in-class report on a poem or problem, and a final research paper are required.
updated 2006-03-28
