We discuss one poem of Amy Levy in the context of her short and painful life, then look at Robert Bridges's version of sprung rhythm -- how it differs from his friend Hopkins's and then after a brief and fractional defense of Kipling from the worst that could be said about him, we consider his poem "In the Neolithic Age."
Purgatorio and beginning of Paradiso
Purgatorio part two
Thomson and Collins
Inferno and start of Purgatorio 11-5-10
Doctor Johnson
Last class on Pope
Second class on Dante: More on the Inferno
Pope's satires and To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady
First class on Dante -- 10/29/10
Last class on Virgil - his versions of Homer
Third class on Pope: How pure poetry becomes topical
2nd class on Virgil: his sublimity
Pope: Essay on Criticism concluded, Eloisa to Abelard and Rape of the Lock begun
First class on Pope, 10/19/10
Virgil and Homer. Ovid.
Ovid and the Ovidian Milton
Swift on himself, to Stella, and to the world, 10/12/10
Plato's Socrates and Aristophanes's - 10/12/10
Second class on Plato: the Cave, Socrates's argument with poetry early and late
First Swift class-NSFW: very scatalogical
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