Dr. Yoder
English 4341.01 English Romanticism -- Shelley and Byron Spring 2007
Week 1 (Jan. 17, 19)
W Intro
F Shelley's funeral (handout)
Week 2 (Jan. 22, 24, 26)
Shelley: "Julian and Maddalo" (1818-1819; 1824), "To Wordsworth" (1814), "Ozymandias" (1818), "England in 1819" (1819), "To a Skylark" (1820)
Byron: "She Walks in Beauty" (1814) "Stanzas for Music" (both 1814, 1815), excerpts from "The Corsair" (1814) and "Lara" (1814)
Week 3 (Jan. 29, 331, Feb. 2)
Shelley: "Mt. Blanc," (1816; 1817) "A Defence of Poetry" (1821; 1840)
Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage III, lines 860-913 (1816)
Week 4 (Feb. 5, 7, 9)
Byron: Manfred (1817)
Week 5 (Feb. 12, 14, 16)
Shelley: The Cenci (1819; 1820)
Byron: "Darkness" (1816; 1817)
Week 6 (Feb. 19, 21, 23)
--->Monday, Feb. 19: Paper 1 Due
Byron: "Beppo" (1817; 1818)
Week 7 (Feb. 26, 28, Mar. 2)
Byron: Don Juan I (1819)
Week 8 (Mar. 5, 7, 9)
Byron: Don Juan II (1819)
Week 9 (Mar. 12, 14, 16)
Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (1820)
Byron: "Prometheus" (1816; 1817)
Week 10 (Mar. 19, 21, 23)
Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, "Ode to the West Wind" (1820)
Week 11 (Mar. 26-30)
SPRING BREAK
Week 12 (Apr. 2, 4, 6)
--->Monday, Apr. 2: Paper 2 Due
Byron: Don Juan III-IV (1821)
Week 13 (Apr. 9, 11, 13)
Byron: Don Juan V (1821)
Week 14 (Apr. 16, 18, 20)
Shelley: "Epipsychidion," (1820-1821; 1821) "Adonais" (1821)
Week 15 (Apr. 23, 25, 27)
Byron: Cain (1821)
Week 16 (Apr. 30, May 2)
Shelley: "The Triumph of Life" (1822; 1824)
--->Final Paper Due by Noon
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