Most of the class is on Edward Lear, and what his kind of nonsense poetry (very different from Carroll's) tells us about how poetry works in general. Then a return to Clare, to complete "The Winters Spring."
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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