Introduction
to the Romantic Period
Literary
Writing and Terms
William
Blake (1757-1827)
: "To
Autumn";
from Songs of Innocence:
"The
Lamb";
"The
Little Black Boy";
"The
Chimney Sweeper";
"The
Tyger";
" "The
Garden of Love"
(YouTube); "London"
(YouTube); "I
asked a thief"
(audio)
Robert
Burns (1759-1796)
:
"To
a Mouse"--YouTube;
(in
English);
"A
Red, Red Rose";
"Auld
Lang Syne";
"Tam
O'Shanter";
"Address
to a Haggis"
(in
English)
Mary
Wollstonecraft
(1759-1797): "A
Vindication of the Rights of
Woman"
William
Wordsworth
(1770-1850): "Strange
fits of passion have I
known";
"She
Dwelt among the untrodden ways"
(YouTube);
"Three
years she grew"
Samuel
Taylor Coleridge
(17721834)
: "The
Rime of the Ancient
Mariner"
George
Gordon, Lord Byron
(1788-1824) :"She
walks in beauty " (You
Tube);
"When
we two parted";
Don
Juan, Canto I;
"The
Prisoner of Chillon"
P.
B. Shelley (1792-1822)
:
"Ode
to the West Wind"
(YouTube); "England
in 1819";
"Ozymandias"
John
Keats (1795-1821)
: "When
I have fears that I may cease to
be";
"Ode
on a Grecian Urn";
"To
Autumn" ;
"La
Belle Dame Sans Merci"
(YouTube)
Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797-1851) (VOD): Frankenstein
(not in text)
Sir
Walter Scott
(1771-1832): The
Pirate
(recommended)
Jane
Austen (1775-1817)
: Sense
and Sensibility (not in
text)
William
Thackeray
(1811-1863): Vanity
Fair
(recommended)
Introduction
to the Victorian Age
Elizabeth
Barrett Browning
(1806-1861)
: "The
Cry of the Children";
"How
do I Love Thee"
(YouTube)
Alfred,
Lord Tennyson
(1809-1892)
: "Ulysses"
;
"The Woman's Cause is Man's"
Charles
Dickens (1812-1870)
:
"A
Visit to Newgate"
Robert
Browning (1812-1889)
:
"Porphyria's
Lover";
"My
Last Duchess"
(YouTube);
"The
Bishop Orders His Tomb"
Charlotte
Bronte
(1816-1855): "On
The Death Of Anne Brontë
";
"Momento";
Jane
Eyre
(recommended film or novel)
Branwell
Bronte
(1817-1848): "O God! while I in pleasure's wiles";
"Peaceful
Death and Happy Life";
"Lines"
Emily
Bronte
(1818-1848): "No
Coward Soul is Mine";
"High
Waving Heather 'Neath Stormy Blasts
Bending";
"To
Imagination";
Wuthering
Heights (recommended)
Anne
Bronte
(1820-1849): "A
Voice from the Dungeon";
The
Tenant of Wildfell
Hall
(recommended)
Christina
Rossetti
(1830-1894) : "Song"
(YouTube); "After
Death"
Gerard
Manley Hopkins
(1844-1889): "God's
Grandeur";
"Spring";
"Pied
Beauty"
(YouTube); "Thou
Art Indeed Just, Lord"
(YouTube)
Lewis
Carroll (1832-1898)
:
"Jabberwocky"
(YouTube)
Robert
Lewis Stevenson (1850-1894):
Kidnapped
(recommended)
Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859-1930):
The
Hound of the Baskervilles
(recommended)
Introduction
to the Twentieth Century and
After
William
Butler Yeats
(1865-1939): "When
You are Old";
"Leda
and the Swan"
Virginia
Woolf
(1882-1941) : "A
Room of One's Own"
James
Joyce
(1882-1941) : "Araby"
D.
H. Lawrence (1885-1930):
"Piano";
"The
Snake" (You Tube);
"The
Horse Dealer's Daughter"
Dame
Daphne du Maurier
(1901-1989):
*Jamaica Inn (recommended novel or
film)
W.
H. Auden
(1907-1973) :"Musee
des Beaux Arts"
(audio); "In
Memory of Yeats";
"Funeral
Blues" (YouTube)
Dylan
Thomas
(1914-1953) :"The
Hunchback in the Park";
"Do
Not Go Gentle into that Good
Night"
(audio)
Doris
Lessing
(b. 1919) :"To Room Nineteen"
Derek
Walcott (b.
1930)
: "A
Far Cry from Africa";
"the
Glory Trumpeter"
(audio #4)
Hanif
Kureishi
(b. 1954): "My
Son the Fanatic"
(not in text)
Jhumpa
Lahiri (b.
1967): "Hell-Heaven"
(not
in text)
Note: All readings are
required unless indicated and will be covered in
the quizzes, bulletin board assignments, and
Midterm Exam.
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