A brief introduction to Pre-Raphaelite poetry and painting: the perceptual psychology that it brings us to notice. A close reading of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's amazing "Woodspurge." A little bit on his "Blessed Damozel," followed, via a Mr. Magoo-inflected reading of Lewis Carroll's "Mad Gardener's Song," by a more general consideration of rhyme and in Victorian poetry and the question of its prominence or lack thereof: important as well to "The Blessed Damozel," but we ran out of time and may not get to discuss this next class, when we will certainly do Christina Rossetti.
Faerie Queene, Book 3, beginning
A lovely lay and the Bower of Bliss
Temperance and self-restraint
Temperance and certainty
Spenser: allegory and character
Allegory and character
Second class on Spenser: I. 1-4
First real class on Spenser, with attention to Milton
Last 18th c poetry class: Pope and retrospective
Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798: Frost at Midnight and Tintern Abbey
Last class on Paradise Lost and of the Semester
Freedom of conscience and guilt in Paradise Lost
Burns, Blake, and perspectives on the innocent
Paradise Lost I: Antecedents
Barbauld and Baillie
Goldsmith and Cowper
Paradiso and Paradise Lost
Paradiso and the universe and everything
Christopher Smart: Prayer and Praise
Young, Gray, and the advent of Romanticism
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