8:432 Pre-Raphaelites in Prose and Poetry

Syllabus

August 26th, 2013 Monday

introduction to course, handouts, some critical works on Pre-Raphaelites; possibly slides

August 28th, 2013 Wednesday

Cambridge Companion, Isobel Armstrong, "The Pre-Raphaelites and Literature"; David Riede, "The Pre-Raphaelites"; Keats, "Isabella and the Pot of Basil," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"; Tennyson, "The Palace of Art," "The Hesperides," "Oriana"

September 2nd, 2013 Monday

Labor Day

September 4th, 2013 Wednesday

Browning, "The Statue and the Bust," "Two in the Campagna," Love Amid the Ruins," "Andrea del Sarto"

criticism: William Fredeman, introduction to Pre-Raphaelitism, Antony H. Harrison, "Arthurian Poetry and Medievalism"

September 9th, 2013 Monday

Cambridge Companion, Jenny Graham, "Artistic Inspirations"; Colin Cruise, "Pre-Raphaelite Drawing"; slides of the Pre-Raphaelites

September 11th, 2013 Wednesday

John Ruskin, Modern Painters 1 and 2, selections from John Rosenberg, The Genius of John Ruskin

September 16th, 2013 Monday

John Ruskin, Modern Painters, selections in Rosenberg from 3-5; selections in Rosenberg from Seven Lamps of Architecture ("Truth" and "Memory")

September 18th, 2013 Wednesday

Rossetti handout, Boos; D. G. Rossetti, "A Last Confession," "Jenny"

September 23rd, 2013 Monday

The Germ and The Oxford and Cambridge Magazine, "The Burden of Nineveh," "The Blessed Damozel" (revisions)

September 25th, 2013 Wednesday

Rossetti,"Hand and Soul" and "St. Agnes of Intercession"

September 30th, 2012 Monday

Elizabeth Helsinger, handout; Rossetti, The House of Life

October 2nd, 2013 Wednesday

Cambridge Companion, Lorraine Kooistra, "Christina Rossetti"; Christina Rossetti, "Monna Innominata," selected poems

October 7th, 2013 Monday

Christina Rossetti, poems, prose tale

October 9th, 2013 Wednesday

Cambridge Companion, Jeffrey Skoblow, "William Morris"; Fiona MacCarthy, "William Morris," in ODNB; William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, Malorian poems

October 14th, 2013 Monday

William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere, Froissartian poems

October 16th, 2013 Wednesday

Morris, tales in the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine: "Story of the Unknown Church," "A Dream," "The Hollow Land"

October 21st, 2013 Monday

Augusta Webster, "Medea," "The Castaway"

October 23rd, 2013 Wednesday

Algernon Swinburne, "Laus Veneris," "Hymn to Proserpine," "Hertha"

October 28th, 2013 Monday

Possible visit to Special Collections

October 30th, 2013 Wednesday

Morris, "The Lovers of Gudrun" from The Earthly Paradise

November 4th, 2013 Monday

Sigurd the Volsung, book 3: "Brynhild"

November 6th, 2013 Wednesday

slides of Morris and Co. artwork

November 11th, 2013 Monday

William Morris, "The Lesser Arts," "The Beauty of Life," "Art Under Plutocracy"

November 13th, 2013 Wednesday

William Morris, News from Nowhere

November 18th, 2013 Monday

William Morris, News from Nowhere

November 20th, 2013 Wedneday

Walter Pater, 3 essays from The Renaissance

[Thanksgiving break]

December 2nd, 2013 Monday

Walter Pater, "Rossetti," "Aesthetic Poetry," Bk. 1, Marius the Epicurean

December 4nd, 2013 Wednesday

Walter Pater, Marius, reports on Bks. 2 and 3, Bk. 4, Marius the Epicurean

December 9th, 2013 Monday

William Morris, Water of the Wondrous Isles

December 11th, 2013 Wednesday

Water of the Wondrous Isles, student presentations

Final class meeting, Monday December 16th, 2013

Final 15-20 page papers due December 19th, 2013