August 23rd Introduction, metrics
August 25th Some background on the period; Elizabeth Barrett Browning, "The Cry of the Children"
August 30th EBB, "Runaway Slave at Pilgrims Point"
September 1st Robert Browning,"Andrea del Sarto," "Porphyria's Lover," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"
September 6th Robert Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi"
September 8th D. G. Rossetti, "Jenny"
September 13th Augusta Webster, "The Castaway"
September 15th Pre-Raphaelite slides
September 20th Tennyson, "Ulysses," "The Lotus Eaters," "In Memoriam," opening sections
September 22nd "In Memoriam," sections 8-60
September 27th Tennyson, "In Memoriam"
September 29th Tennyson, "Maud"
October 4th Christina Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
October 6th slides William Morris and the decorative arts
October 11th William Morris, "The Defence of Guenevere"
October 13th visit to Special Collections
October 18th working-class and dialect poets: Hamilton and Laycock
October 20th Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach," "Isolation: To Marguerite," "The Buried Life"
October 25th Arnold, "A Summer Night," "Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse"
October 27th Gerard Manley Hopkins, "The Windhover," "As Kingfishers Catch Fire," "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire"
November 1st Hopkins, "Binsey Poplars," "Spring and Fall," "No Worst There Is None," "Carrion Comfort"
November 3rd Swinburne, "The Triumph of Time," "Hymn to Proserpine," "The Lake of Gaube"
November 8th Amy Levy, "Xantippe"
November 10th Oscar Wilde, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
November 15th Michael Field, "La Gioconda," other poems from handout
November 17th Lionel Johnson, "The Dark Angel," A. E. Housman, "The Shropshire Lad"
November 29th W. H. Henley, "In Hospital"
December 1st Thomas Hardy, "Drummer Hodge," "The Convergence of the Twain," "Channel Firing," "In Time of the Breaking of Nations"
December 6th William Butler Yeats, early poems
December 8th Charlotte Mew, "The Trees are Down"; brief discussion of poetic modernism
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