| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Introduction: The Romantic Period |
| Week 2 |
Holiday |
| Week 3 |
William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience |
| Week 4 |
William Wordsworth: “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” Preface to Lyrical Ballads; “Resolution and Independence” |
| Week 5 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
| Week 6 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron: Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Canto 1, Don Juan Canto 1 |
| Week 7 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley: “Mutability,” “England in 1819,” “Ode to the West Wind,” A Defence of Poetry |
| Week 8 |
John Keats: “Ode to Psyche,” “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “To Autumn” |
| Week 9 |
Mid-term exam; Introduction: The Victorian Age |
| Week 10 |
Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present; John Stuart Mill: The Subjection of Women, Autobiography |
| Week 11 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson: “Mariana,” “The Lotos-Eaters,” “Ulysses”; Robert Browning: “Porphyria’s Lover” |
| Week 12 |
Robert Browning: “Fra Lippo Lippi”; John Ruskin: Modern Painters, The Stones of Venice |
| Week 13 |
Matthew Arnold: “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time,” Culture and Anarchy; Walter Pater: Studies in the History of the Renaissance |
| Week 14 |
Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession |
| Week 15 |
Bernard Shaw: Mrs. Warren’s Profession |
| Week 16 |
Final exam |
| Week 17 |
Presentation (self-directed learning) |
| Week 18 |
Presentation (self-directed learning) |