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."
Rochester NSFW 10/5/10 2nd and Last class
Plato, 10/5/10: first of two classes
Rochester 10/1/10 First class
Odyssey 4, 10/01/10, Conclusion
! First lecture, RECOVERED, from 9/7/10 on Absalom and Achitophel
! Beginning, recovered, of first (9/17/10) Odyssey Class
Concluding lecture on Dryden
Odyssey part 3: Why Odysseus is No Man
Dryden's subtlety
Odyssey, part 2: the use of oral formulae
Absalom and Achitophel, and Religio Lacici, concluded
First lecture on the Odyssey: Hospitality and Gift Giving
Achilleus, Patroklos, Hector, Priam, and the laws of hospitality
Religio Laici and poetic expertise about politics and theology
Hektor frightens Astyanax, Achilleus plays the lyre
3. Background to Absalom and Achitophel and its Preface
3. Iliad, mainly Book 6
Dryden on Oldham; Oldham on Sodom; Dryden's scatology
Homeric simile in the Iliad
Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry
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