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); "A
Red, Red Rose"
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";
"Kubla
Khan"
(audio)
George
Gordon, Lord Byron
(1788-1824) :"She
walks in beauty "
(YouTube);
"When
we two parted";
Don
Juan, Canto I
P.
B. Shelley (1792-1822)
:
"Ode
to the West Wind"
(YouTube); "England
in 1819"
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)
Jane
Austen (1775-1817)
(VOD): Sense
and Sensibility
(not
in text)
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)
:
"Mariana"
(video); "Ulysses"
;
"The Woman's Cause is Man's"
Charles
Dickens (1812-1870)
(VOD):
"A
Visit to Newgate"
Robert
Browning (1812-1889)
:
"Porphyria's
Lover";
"My
Last Duchess"
;
"The
Bishop Orders His Tomb"
Christina
Rossetti
(1830-1894) : "Song";
"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);
"The
Walrus and the Carpenter"
Mary
Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797-1851)
(VOD):
Frankenstein
(Romantic
Period and not in text)
Introduction
to the Twentieth Century and
After
William
Butler Yeats
(1865-1939):"Down
by the Salley Gardens"
(audio); "When
You are Old";
"Leda
and the Swan"
Virginia
Woolf
(1882-1941) : "A
Room of One's Own"
James
Joyce
(1882-1941) (VOD):
"Araby"
D.
H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
(VOD):
"Piano";
"The
Snake" (You Tube);
"The
Horse Dealer's Daughter"
W.
H. Auden
(1907-1973) (VOD):"Musee
des Beaux Arts"
(audio); "In
Memory of Yeats";
"Funeral
Blues" (YouTube)
Dylan
Thomas
(1914-1953) (VOD):"The
Hunchback in the Park";
"Do
Not Go Gentle into that Good
Night"
(audio)
Doris
Lessing
(b. 1919) (VOD):"To
Room Nineteen"
Derek
Walcott (b. 1930)
(VOD): "A Far Cry from Africa";
"the
Glory Trumpeter"
(audio #4); "Midsummer"
Hanif
Kureishi
(b. 1954): "My
Son the Fanatic"
Jhumpa
Lahiri (b.
1967): "Hell-Heaven"
(not
in text)
Note: All readings are
required and will be covered in the quizzes,
bulletin board assignments, and Midterm
Exam.
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