Prof. Stuart Curran, 313 BH; x8-7355; 732-0531;

Office Hours: W-TR 10:30-12

British Writers: 1801-1830

Introduction; Irish harping (Dermody, Moore, Owenson); Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent.

21 January:

Scott, Marmion; Wordsworth, The White Doe of Rylstone; Southey, The Curse of Kehama.

28 January:

Scott, Waverley.

4 February:

Shelley, Queen Mab; "Alastor"; Keats, "Sleep and Poetry," Endymion.

11 February:

Austen, Persuasion; Edgeworth, Ennui.

18 February

Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, "Prometheus," "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte."

25 February:

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus; Shelley, "Mont Blanc"; Byron, Manfred.

4 March:

Shelley, "Lines Written among the Euganean Hills," "Julian and Maddalo," The Cenci; Hunt-Hazlitt dramatic criticism.

18 March:

Shelley, Prometheus Unbound, "Ode to the West Wind," "Ode to Liberty." -- {1st paper due} 25 March:

Keats, Odes, "Eve of St. Agnes," "Hyperion," "The Fall of Hyperion."

1 April:

Jane Taylor, "Poetry and Reality," "Recreation," "A Pair," "Philip";--George Crabbe, from The Borough ("Peter Grimes");-- John Clare, from Poems Descriptive of Real Life and Scenery ("Summer Evening," "Summer Morning," "Crazy Nell";--Thomas Love Peacock, "The Four Ages of Poetry";--Shelley, "A Defence of Poetry."

8 April:

Shelley, "The Triumph of Life"; James Hogg, Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner.

15 April:

Byron, Don Juan.

22 April:

Elizabeth Barrett, from An Essay on Mind, and Other Poems(1826);--Felicia Hemans, Records of Woman (1828), from Domestic Affections (1830);--Alfred Tennyson, from Poems of Two Brothers (1827), from Poems, Chiefly Lyrical (1830). -- {2nd paper due}

Texts by Austen, Byron, Edgeworth, Hogg, Keats, Scott (Waverley), and the Shelleys: Penn Book Center; others supplied in photoduplicate or (e.g. 1/21 texts; Peacock, 4 Ages) to be found in the library.

Supplementary text: Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism (1992), ed. Stuart Curran.