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.
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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