We finally really begin Antony and Cleopatra, discussing Plutarch's interest in character, and Shakespeare's, and what makes a tragic character interesting since we know what the plot will be. Aristotle on pity and terror again: usually the protagonist or main is someone innocent or at worst someone like ourselves: not so in Macbeth. After which we start analyzing the opening scene, with comparisons to Lear and to Hamlet as well (on the quantification of love). Many corny jokes.
Selfhood in 17th century poetry: Some Donne
Keats' Odes to Psyche and to a Nightingale
Last class on The Triumph of Life
Second Class on The Triumph of Life
Adonais and the opening of The Triumph of Life
The Fall of Hyperion and To Autumn
Keats and Hyperion: the young poet
LR. First Class on Keats: Eve of St. Agnes
Last class on Prometheus Unbound
Resistance and knuckling under
More on Mont Blanc and Prometheus Unbound
"The Two Spirits: An Allegory", Mont Blanc and an Introduction to Prometheus Unbound
Seeing souls in Frankenstein
Frankenstein, again, Prometheus, and Satan
10. Frankenstein via Byron and The Witch of Atlas
The Witch of Atlas: Phosphor reading by her own light
Don Juan, Canto 5
LR 7: Don Juan Cantos 3-4
LR 6: Don Juan Canto 2: Juan and the Narrator
Later Romantix 5: First Class on Don Juan
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