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."
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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