| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
1. The Romantic Period 1785-1832
2. Robert Burns (1759-1796): Auld Lang Syne (Balladry) p.192
3. The Three Ravens (Balladry) p.35
4. Charlotte Smith (1749-1806): Elegiac Sonnets, “Written at the Close of Spring” p.55 |
| Week 2 |
Anna Letia Barbauld (1743-1825): “The Mouse Petition” p.40
William Cowper (1731-1800): “The Negro’s Complaint” p.102
Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832):
“The Lay of the Last Minstrel: Introduction” (p.425)
William Blake (1757-1827): Songs of Innocence:
Introduction p.127
The Echoing Green p.129
The Lamb p.129
The Little Black Boy p.130
Infant Joy p.133
The Chimney Sweeper p.131
The Divine Image p.131
Holy Thursday p.132 |
| Week 3 |
Songs of Experience:
Introduction p.134
The Sick Rose p.138
Infant Sorrow p. 143
The Chimney Sweeper p.137
The Tyger p.139
Holy Thursday p.137
London p. 141
A Poison Tree p.143
A Divine Image p. 145
To Tirzah p. 144
The Human Abstract
William Wordsworth (1770-1850):
“Goody Blake & Harry Gill” p.282
“Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman ” p.285
“We Are Seven” p.288 |
| Week 4 |
“Lines Written in Early Spring” p.289
“Expostulation and Reply” p.296
“The Tables Turned” p.297
“My heart leaps up” p.346
“I wandered lonely as a cloud” p.345
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798” p.299
Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802), p. 303
“The Thorn” p.290 |
| Week 5 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): 448
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part 1+2
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part 3+4
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part 5+6+7 |
| Week 6 |
Horace Walpole: From The Castle of Otranto (From Chapter 1) p.516
John Keats (1795-1821): “Ode to a Nightingale” p.977 |
| Week 7 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824): Darkness
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822):
Prometheus Unbound: Preface & Act 1 p.808 |
| Week 8 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley: The Mortal Immortal, p. 1036 |
| Week 9 |
Midterm exam: The Romantic Period |
| Week 10 |
The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881), Sartor Resartus, p.33
John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) , “What is Poetry?” p.74
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): “The Lotus Eaters” 152 |
| Week 11 |
Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865): “The Old Nurse’s Story” p.246
Robert Browning (1812-1889):
”Porphyria’s Lover” p.324
”My Last Duchess” p.328 |
| Week 12 |
John Ruskin (1819-1900): From Modern Painters p.384
Matthew Arnold (1822-1888): ”Dover Beach” p.433
George Eliot (1819-1880): From Silly Novels by Lady Novelists p.407 |
| Week 13 |
Charles Dickens’s Christmas Carol p.264
Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) “Science and Culture” (Lecture)
Industrialism: Progress vs. Decline? p.626 (Lecture)
Friedrich Engels: From the Great Towns p. 635 (Lecture)
Empire and National Identity p.682 (Lecture)
Thomas Babington Macaulay: Minute on Indian Education p. 686 (Lecture) |
| Week 14 |
“Beacons of the Future”? Education in Victorian England p.713
Charles Dickens: From Hard Times p. 718
Lewis Carroll: From Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland p. 724
Thomas Hardy: From Jude the Obscure p. 752 |
| Week 15 |
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde p.765 |
| Week 16 |
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray p. 822
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930): “The Speckled Banner” p.921
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| Week 17 |
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) “The Man Who Would be King” p.943 |
| Week 18 |
Final Exam: The Victorian Age |