8:121 Victorian Poetry Syllabus, Spring 2011
M January 24th Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”; Hughes introduction
W January 26th Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover,” “Andrea del Sarto”
F January 28th 1st ICON posting due
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M January 30th Robert Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”; Hughes chapter 1
W February 2nd Dante Rossetti, “Jenny”
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M February 7th Augusta Webster, “The Castaway”; Hughes chapter 2
W February 9th Pre-Raphaelite slides
F February 11th second ICON posting due
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M February 14th Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses,” “The Lotus Eaters”; Hughes chapter 3
W February 16th Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam,” first half
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M February 21st Alfred Tennyson, “In Memoriam,” second half; Hughes chapter 4
W February 23rd Christina Rossetti, “Goblin Market,” “In An Artist’s Studio”
F February 25th Title and bibliography of paper due
M February 28th slides, William Morris and the decorative arts; Hughes chapter 5
W March 2nd William Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere,” “The Haystack in the Floods”
F March 4th third ICON posting due
M March 7th visit to Special Collections; Hughes chapter 6
W March 9th working class and dialect poets: Samuel Laycock and Janet Hamilton (handout)
F March 11th final draft first paper due
Spring break March 12th-20th
M March 21st Matthew Arnold, “Dover Beach,” “To Marguerite—Continued,” “The Buried Life”; Hughes chapter 7
W March 23rd Matthew Arnold,” Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse”
F March 25th fourth ICON posting due
M March 28th Gerard Manley Hopkins, “The Windhover,” “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,” “Carrion Comfort”; Hughes chapter 8
W March 30th Gerard Manley Hopkins, “No Worst, There is None,” “Felix Randall,” “Spring and Fall” (handout); “Binsey Poplars” (handout)
M April 4th Algernon Swinburne, “The Triumph of Time,” “Hymn to Prosperpine”; Hughes chapter 9
W April 6th Amy Levy, “Xantippe”
F April 8th fifth ICON posting due
M April 11th Oscar Wilde, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”
W April 13 Michael Field, “La Giaconda,” “It was deep April”; handout: “Your Rose is Dead,” “Trinity”
M April 18th W. E. Henley, “In Hospital”
W April 20th Fin de siècle: Lionel Johnson, “The Dark Angel”; (handout) Mary Coleridge, “The White Women,” “The Other Side of the Mirror”
M April 25th handout: A. E. Housman, “The Shropshire Lad”
W April 27 Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush,” “Snow in the Suburbs,” “Afterwards” handout: “Drummer Hodge,”
F April 29th sixth ICON posting due
M May 2 handout: Rosamund Marriott Watson, “The Ballad of the Bird Bride,” “A Ballad of the Were-Wolf,” “The Open Door”
W May 4 Charlotte Mew, “The Cenotaph,” “The Farmer’s Bride,” (handout) “The Trees Are Down”
M May 9th take home exam/essay; you will report on this in class