EL 306.01 English Romantics
Spring 2015
Mon 11:00-12:50 Wed 12:00-12:50
ENGLISH ROMANTICS
This course covers selected works of British Romantic poets William Blake, William
Wordsworth, Samuel T. Coleridge, John Keats, Percy B. Shelley, Lord Byron, Anna Laetitia,
Felicia Dorothea Hemans, and Charlotte Smith.
Your book is available at Günel Copy.
Course Requirements:
Participation
Writing
Midterm Exam
Final Exam
10 %
20 %
30 %
40 %
Presentations: Students can sign up for the optional presentations for 5 extra points. These
are 10 minute long group presentations on supplementary topics such as French, German,
Russian and Ottoman romanticism, romanticism in music and art, Gothic architecture and
literature, Abolition movement, Byron’s life etc.
Please note that class content and course policies are subject to change.
Reading Schedule
Week 1
9 Feb Mon
11 Feb Wed
Introduction
William Blake “All Religions Are One” and “There is no Natural Religion”
Week 2
16 Feb Mon
18 Feb Wed
William Blake
Selections from Songs of Innocence and Experience
“Auguries of Innocence”
Week 3
23 Feb Mon
25 Feb Wed
William Blake
“Marriage of Heaven and Hell”
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Week 4
2 Mar Mon
William Wordsworth
“Lines Written in Early Spring” “Daffodils” “We are Seven” “An Old Man
Traveling” “Solitary Reaper”
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
4 Mar Wed
Week 5
William Wordsworth
9 Mar Mon “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood”
11 Mar Wed “The Mad Mother” “The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman” “The
Convict” “1 September 1802”
Week 6
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
16 Mar Mon “The Aeolian Harp” Rime of the Ancient Mariner
18 Mar Wed Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Week 7
Lord Byron
23 Mar Mon Rime of the Ancient Mariner
25 Mar Wed “Written after swimming from Sestos to Abydos” “Messalonghi”
MIDTERM
Week 8
Lord Byron
30 Mar Mon Don Juan Canto I
1 Apr Wed Don Juan Canto I
Week 9
6 Apr Mon
8 Apr Wed
Percy B. Shelley
“Stanzas written in dejection” “Hymn to Intellectual Beauty”
“England in 1819” “A Song: ‘Men of England’” “To Sidmouth and
Castlereagh”
Week 10
Politics and the Romantics:
13 Apr Mon excerpts from Godwin On Political Justice, Burke Reflections on the French
Revolution
15 Apr Wed Wordsworth “To Toussaint L’Ouverture” Cowper “Sweet Meat has Sour
Sauce” Barbauld “Epistle to Wilberforce”
Week 11
20-24 Apr
SPRING BREAK
Week 12
John Keats
27 Apr Mon “Why did I laugh tonight no voice will tell” “When I have fears that I may
cease to be” “Ode on Melancholy”
29 Apr Wed NO CLASS
Week 13
4 May Mon
6 May Wed
John Keats
“Eve of St. Agnes”
“Eve of St. Agnes”
Week 14
Women Romantics
11 May Mon Anna Laetitia Barbauld “To a Little Invisible Being Who Is Soon Expected to
Become Visible” “Washing Day” “The Rights of Woman”
13 May Wed Felicia Dorothea Hemans “England’s Dead” “Casabianca”