We discuss "The Garden of Proserpine" and the ways that it anticipates or instantiates Freud's idea of the death drive: all the repetitions in the poem. Then we turn to the poet most opposite in attitude: Hopkins, and talk briefly of "Pied Beauty" and "That Nature is a Heralcitean Fire." Discussion in Instress and the Duns-Scotian term haecicity that makes it possible, as opposed to Thomas Aquainas' universality. We'll finish considering Hopkins next class.
Mont Blanc continued: Brain or Sky
Songs from the Plays: Nashe, Kenneth Koch, Daniel
Mont Blanc: which is to be master
More on Astrophel and Stella; then some Shakespeare
Paradise Lost, The Intimations Ode, Mont Blanc
Last class on the Intimations Ode
Continuing on with the Intimations Ode
Astrophel and Stella, part 2
First class on Astrophel and Stella
Intimations Ode rebooted and general remarks on the Romantic sense of Milton 2_27_12
Vacation bonus: talk at UCLA
Wordsworth reboots the Intimations Ode
Southwell and Marlowe - 2.13.12
The Intimations Ode proper - 2.13.12
Heavy as Frost 2-9-12
Some moments from the Faerie Queene 2-8-12
Versions of the Intimations Ode
A desultory class on Spenser 2/6/12
Poetry and the personification of Love - 2/6/12
The burning boy: Metaphor and personification 2-2-12
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