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| "It is impossible to read
the compositions of the most celebrated writers of the present
day without being startled with the electric life which burns
within their words." |
(P.
B. Shelley) |
The main focus of this course will be poems, and some prose, by
six fascinating and influential poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge,
Shelley, Byron, and Keats. We’ll also read poetry (and poetic
prose) by women writers of the period: Anna Barbauld, Mary Robinson,
Dorothy Wordsworth, and Felicia Hemans. We'll consider such "Romantic"
ideas and themes as imagination, feeling, originality, the process
of creativity, the correspondence between self and nature, the
dark passages of the psyche, encounters with otherness, altered
states of being, mortality and immortality, poetry and revolution,
Romanticism as revolt, the exiled hero, love, sexuality, gender,
the meaning of art, the importance of history, & etc. . .
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Open to students at all levels of familiarity with poetry . |
Photo by Mariana S. Oller. |
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