COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Objectives

Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:

1. Define English Romanticism and explain why Lyrical Ballads is considered one of the founders of the movement.

2. Explain why the modern city exerts for the Romantic author such a peculiar fascination.

3. Summarize why Wordsworth is frequently described as a Lake District poet.

4. Give examples of how the Romantic author uses a natural phenomenon to reflect on the interior state of the human being.

5. Define the relationship between memory and imagination in poetic creation.

6. Summarize the Romantic author's attitude toward metaphor as a central element of poetic language.

7. Define each Romantic author's attitude toward the concept of history.

8. Compare and contrast each author's linguistic idiosyncrasies.

9. Explain the limits of attempting to understand poems as reflections of biographical and historical circumstances.

MAIN TEXTBOOK and FURTHER READINGS

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed.  The Romantic Period (1785-1830). The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed. vol 2. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.

Supplementary reading requirements to be distributed in class.

ASSIGNMENTS AND GRADING

Assignments:

Topics for discussion, all related to course objectives, will be posted on the class website ( http://cafe.naver.com/hyeuk001). Individual students are required to upload their responses to the website Forum in a timely manner. Topics are various; responses should be penetrating and concise.

Grading Scheme:

Your final grade will be broken down as follows:

Reading Response (Web Posting)     400 pt.

Presentation                          200 pt.

Final Exam                           400 pt.

Attendance                           100 pt. (one unexcused absence acceptable)

COURSE SCHEDULE

Course Outline

In this course we will read a selection of the most important English poets of English Romanticism. We will concentrate on generous selections from each poet, building an understanding of how English Romanticism addressed the questions of form and content particular to its time. The class will work together to learn how best to read and enjoy a wide range of poetry.

Syllabus (note: syllabus will vary with pace of course)

Week 1: Introduction to Class. "The Romantic Period."

Week 2: William Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Week 3: William Blake. Songs of Innocence and Experience. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

Week 4: The revolution controversy and the "spirit of the age." Mary Wollstonecraft

Week 5: William Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads.

Week 6: William Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads.

Week 7: William Wordsworth. Lyrical Ballads. Sonnets.

Week 8: William Wordsworth. The Prelude.

Week 9: William Wordsworth. The Prelude.

Week 10: William Wordsworth. The Prelude.

Week 11: Romantic Paintings.

Week 12: Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Week 13: Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Week 14: John Keats.

Week 15: John Keats.

CONTACT DETAILS

Tel: 751-5888; e-mail: joo001@gnu.ac.kr

Course Name	19th Century English Poetry
Credits	3
Professor(s)	Name	Hyeuk Kyu Joo
	Affiliation	Department of English