Readings | Romantic Poetry | Literature

This section contains the required readings for the course. Readings are also listed by session.

Required Texts

Gordon, George, and Lord Byron. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN: 0192840401.

Keats, John. John Keats: Complete Poems. Edited by Jack Stillinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 0674154312.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Edited by Marilyn Butler. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192833669.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. Selected Poems. New York, NY: Dover, 1993. ISBN: 0486275582.

Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 041535529X.

Readings by Session

Course readings.
DAY #	Topics	READINGS
Week 1
1	Introduction
Week 2
2	Readings by Thomas Gray and Thomas Warton	Gray, Thomas. "Sonnet on the Death of Richard West," "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College," "Elegy in a Country Churchyard," and "The Progress of Poesy: A Pindaric Ode." In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 324-338. ISBN: 063120623X. Warton, Thomas. "The Pleasures of Melancholy." In Eighteenth-Century Poetry: An Annotated Anthology. Edited by David Fairer and Christine Gerrard. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1999, pp. 368-374. ISBN: 063120623X.
3	Readings by Anna Seward and Charlotte Smith	Seward, Anna. Sonnets 1 and 28. In Original Sonnets on Various Subjects; and Odes Paraphrased from Horace. 2nd ed. London, UK: G. Sael, 1799, pp. 3, 17. Smith, Charlotte. Sonnets 1-21 and sonnet 47. In The Poems of Charlotte Smith. Edited by Stuart Curran. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1993, pp. 13-27, 44. ISBN: 019507873X.
Week 3
4	Readings by Wordsworth	Wordsworth. "Advertisement" to Lyrical Ballads, "Simon Lee," "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "We Are Seven," "The Last of the Flock," and "The Old Cumberland Beggar."
5	Readings by Wordsworth (cont.)	Wordsworth. "Preface" to Lyrical Ballads, "The Idiot Boy," "The Thorn," "Expostulation and Reply," and "The Tables Turned."
Week 4
6	Readings by Wordsworth (cont.)	Wordsworth. "Lines Written in Early Spring," "Hart-Leap Well," "Michael," "The Brothers," and "Nutting."
Week 5
7	Readings by Coleridge	Coleridge. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
8	Readings by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and John Thelwall	Wordsworth. "Tintern Abbey." Coleridge. "The Nightingale," and "Frost at Midnight." Thelwall, John. "Lines Written at Bridgwater in Somersetshire, on the 27th of July, 1797; during a long excursion, in quest of a peaceful retreat,” and “To the Infant Hampden. – Written during a sleepless night. Derby. Oct. 1797.” In Poems, Chiefly Written in Retirement. 1801. Reprinted by Oxford, UK: Woodstock Books, 1989, pp. 125-129, 140-141. ISBN:1854770144.
Week 6
9	Readings by Coleridge (cont.)	Conversation poems (cont.), incl. Coleridge. "A Letter to Sara Hutchinson."
10	Readings by Keats	Keats. "Sleep and Poetry," and "To My Brother George."
Week 7
11	Readings by Keats (cont.)	Keats. "Odes."
12	Readings by Keats (cont.)	Keats. "Odes."
Week 8
13	Readings by Keats and William Hazlitt	Keats. "The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream," and "Lamia." Hazlitt, William. "On Poetry in General." In Selected Writings. Edited by Jon Cook. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1991, pp. 308-323. ISBN: 0192817345.
14	Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley	Shelley. "Julian and Maddalo," and "Ozymandias."
Week 9
15	Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley	Shelley. "A Defence of Poetry," "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty," and "Epipsychidion."
Week 10
16	Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley (cont.)	Shelley. "Ode to the West Wind," "England in 1819," "Song to the Men of England," and "The Mask of Anarchy."
17	Readings by Percy Bysshe Shelley and Byron	Shelley. "Adonais." Byron. "English Bards and Scotch Reviewers." (Sel.)
Week 11
18	Readings by Mary Shelley	Shelley. Frankenstein.
Week 12
19	Readings by Mary Shelley (cont.)	Shelley. Frankenstein.
20	Readings by Byron	Byron. "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," Canto I (st. 1-28), Canto III.
Week 13
21	Readings by Byron (cont.)	Byron. "Don Juan," Cantos I-II.
22	Readings by Byron (cont.)	Byron. "Don Juan," Cantos X-XI.
Week 14
23	Readings by Byron (cont.)	Byron. "Cain."
24	Readings by Byron (cont.)	Byron. "Cain."