A lot of greats to do in a single day, and not wanting to miss Eliot we begin with a little contextualization of three of the sonnets from "Brother and Sister," then move on to a few grim Hardy poems, and then to Hopkins: "As kingfishers catch fire" compared with one of the "terrible sonnets," "I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day."
Victorian Poetry 26: Last class: Housman after a touch of Yeats and a little Michael Field
Victorian Poetry 25: Jeff Nunokawa visits to discuss Wilde’s ”Ballad of Reading Gaol”
Victorian Poetry 24: The Rhymers’ Club: Fin de siècle poetry, towards Wilde and Yeats
Victorian Poetry 23: Amy Levy, Robert Bridges and... Kipling
Victorian Poetry 22: A bit more Stevenson, George R. Sims, and the amazing Alice Meynell
Victorian Poetry 21: Later Victorian Forms: Stevenson, Guggenberger, MacDonald
Victorian Poetry 19: Swinburne and Hopkins
Victorian Poetry 18: A touch of Fitzgerald and Hopkins; more on Meredith and Swinburne
Victorian Poetry 17: Some Meredith, then we begin The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Victorian Poetry 16: A little Patmore, then the rest of Goblin Market
Victorian Poetry 15: D.G. and C. Rossetti
Victorian Poetry 14: D.G. Rossetti and pre-Raphealitism
Victorian Poetry 13: Concluding class on Clough’s ”Amours de Voyage”
Victorian Poetry 12: Mainly Clough plus some narrative theory
Victorian Poetry 11: ”Long ago he was one of the singers” (Edward Lear) plus a little Clare
Victorian Poetry 10: ”The Hunting of the Snark” and some Clare
Victorian Poetry 9: ” ’Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ ”
Victorian Poetry 8: More on R. Browning’s ”Development” and then mainly his”Thamuris Marching”
Victorian Poetry 7: more on Aurora Leigh and then some Robert Browning
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