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."
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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