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."
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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