335 CALENDAR
After each assignment you will find page information in parenthesis. If you find a single number [for example,
(125)], that will indicate the first page of a selection you need to read in its entirety. If you find a range or a set of
ranges of numbers [for example, (1-85) or (439-46; 454-55)], that will indicate the specific pages of a selection you
need to read. The bracketed items on each Big Six day are works I will cover in class; you do not need to read these.
INTRODUCTIONS
WEEK 1
T J 13 Introductions/Syllabus Overview/Course Preview
R J 15 Section Introduction: "The French Revolution and Rights of Man" (9)
Section Introduction: "Rights of Woman" (31)
Section Introduction: "Slavery, The Slave Trade, and Abolition" (53)
Section Introduction: "Society and Political Economy" (85)
Section Introduction: "Science and Nature" (105)
Section Introduction: "Aesthetic Theory and Literary Criticism" (125)
THE BIG SIX
WEEK 2
T J 20 BLAKE: "Introduction" (277)
BLAKE: "The Ecchoing Green" (278)
BLAKE: "The Lamb" (278)
BLAKE: "The Little Black Boy" (278)
BLAKE: "The Chimney Sweeper" (279)
BLAKE: "The Divine Image" (280)
BLAKE: "Holy Thursday" (280)
BLAKE: "Nurse's Song" (281)
BLAKE: "Infant Joy" (281)
BLAKE: "The School Boy" (283)
BLAKE: "The Voice of the Ancient Bard" (284)
BLAKE: "Introduction" (299)
BLAKE: "Earth's Answer" (299)
BLAKE: "The Clod and the Pebble" (300)
BLAKE: "Holy Thursday" (300)
BLAKE: "The Chimney Sweeper" (300)
BLAKE: "Nurses Song" (300)
BLAKE: "The Sick Rose" (300)
BLAKE: "The Fly" (301)
BLAKE: "The Tyger" (301)
BLAKE: "The Garden of Love" (302)
BLAKE: "The Little Vagabond" (302)
BLAKE: "London" (302)
BLAKE: "The Human Abstract" (302)
BLAKE: "Infant Sorrow" (303)
BLAKE: "A Poison Tree" (303)
BLAKE: "To Tirzah" (304)
BLAKE: "Auguries of Innocence" (314)
BLAKE: from A Vision of the Last Judgment (316)
[Foss: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]
R J 22 W. WORDSWORTH: "Lines Written at a Small Distance from My House" (564)
W. WORDSWORTH: "Expostulation and Reply" (571)
W. WORDSWORTH: "The Tables Turned" (571)
W. WORDSWORTH: "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (571)
W. WORDSWORTH: "She Was a Phantom of Delight" (593)
W. WORDSWORTH: "It Is Not to be Thought" (599)
W. WORDSWORTH: "To a Butterfly" (600)
W. WORDSWORTH: "My Heart Leaps up When I Behold" (600)
[Foss: Preface to Lyrical Ballads; "Ode [Intimations]"]
WEEK 3
T J 27 Meet in Combs 349
COLERIDGE: "Frost at Midnight" (697)
COLERIDGE: "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (709)
COLERIDGE: "Dejection: An Ode " (711)
COLERIDGE: "Kubla Khan" (729)
COLERIDGE: "Work without Hope" (760)
[Foss: Biographia Literaria; "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"]
R J 29 P. SHELLEY: "To Wordsworth" (1062)
P. SHELLEY: "Mont Blanc" (1063)
P. SHELLEY: "Hymn to Intellectual Beauty" (1065)
P. SHELLEY: "To A Skylark" (1138)
P. SHELLEY: "Essay On Love" (1163)
P. SHELLEY: "Sonnet: England in 1819" (1166)
P. SHELLEY: "Song to the Men of England" (1166)
[Foss: A Defence of Poetry; Prometheus Unbound]
WEEK 4
T F 03 BYRON: Letter to Lady Byron (898)
BYRON: "To ----" (899)
BYRON: "Prometheus" (920)
BYRON: Manfred (927)
[Foss: The Byronic Hero; Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage]
R F 05 KEATS: "Ode to Psyche" (1295)
KEATS: "Ode to a Nightingale" (1296)
KEATS: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1297)
KEATS: "To Autumn" (1308)
KEATS: "Ode on Indolence" (1312)
KEATS: "La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad" (1313)
KEATS: "This living hand, now warm and capable" (1320)
[Foss: Keats's letters]
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION AND RIGHTS OF MAN
WEEK 5
T F 10 BURKE: from Reflections on the Revolution in France (13)
WOLLSTONECRAFT: from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (20)
PAINE: from The Rights of Man (25)
MORE: Village Politics (210)
WOLLSTONECRAFT: from An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French
Revolution; and the Effect It Has Produced in Europe (415)
R F 12 BARBAULD: Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (181)
BURNS: "Robert Bruce's March to Bannockburn" (360)
W. WORDSWORTH: "I Griev'd for Buonaparte" (597)
OWENSON: "The Irish Harp" (809)
BYRON: Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte (896)
P. SHELLEY: "Feelings of a Republican on the Fall of Bonaparte" (1062)
RIGHTS OF WOMAN
WEEK 6
T F 17 BARBAULD: "The Rights of Woman" (186)
WOLLSTONECRAFT: from Vindication of the Rights of Woman (373-75; 379-90; 401-05; 411-13)
EDGEWORTH: "Rights of Woman," from Belinda (541)
R F 19 ROBINSON: "Deborah's Parrot" (324)
AIKIN: Epistle I of Epistles on Women, Exemplifying Their Character and Condition in Various Ages
and Nations (818)
TAYLOR: "Accomplishment" (841)
HEMANS: "Joan of Arc, in Rheims" (1237)
HEMANS: "The Image in Lava" (1242)
HEMANS: "Woman and Fame" (1247)
L. E. L.: "The Proud Ladye" (1379)
SLAVERY, THE SLAVE TRADE, AND ABOLITION IN BRITAIN
WEEK 7
T F 24 CUGOANO: from Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce
of the Human Species (58)
EQUIANO: from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (192)
PRINCE: from The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave (869)
R F 26 COWPER: "The Negro's Complaint" (62)
COWPER: "Pity for Poor Africans" (63)
BELLAMY: The Benevolent Planters (64)
SOUTHEY: "The Sailor, Who Had Served in the Slave Trade" (68)
OPIE: "The Black Man's Lament" (82)
BARBAULD: Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave
Trade (169)
W. WORDSWORTH: "To Toussaint L'ouverture" (598)
WEEK 8—SPRING BREAK
WEEK 9
T M 10 MORE: Slavery, A Poem (206)
YEARSLEY: A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave Trade (263)
SOCIETY AND POLITICAL ECONOMY
R M 12 COBBETT: Cobbett's Poor Man's Friend (102)
MORE: "The Riot; or, Half a Loaf Is Better Than No Bread" (217)
BURNS: "John Barleycorn: A Ballad" (356)
BURNS: "The Fornicator: a New Song----" (363)
BURNS: "[Why should na poor folk mowe]" (364)
THELWALL: "To the Infant Hampden—" (533)
THELWALL: "Maria" (533)
WEEK 10
T M 17 ROBINSON: "All Alone" (320)
ROBINSON: "The Poor, Singing Dame" (322)
OPIE: "Consumption" (557)
W. WORDSWORTH: "Resolution and Independence" (593)
W. WORDSWORTH: "Composed on Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803" (596)
D. WORDSWORTH: [Friday 3rd October] from The Grasmere Journals (664)
D. WORDSWORTH: [May 1802] from The Grasmere Journals (666)
C. LAMB: "The Old Familiar Faces" (799)
R M 19 COLERIDGE: "The Pains of Sleep" (730)
C. LAMB: "The Superannuated Man" (802)
DE QUINCEY: from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (859-865)
HEMANS: "The Indian City" (1234)
CANONBALLS
WEEK 11
T M 24 Student presentations (reading assignments TBA)
R M 26 Student presentations (reading assignments TBA)
WEEK 12
T M 31 Student presentations (reading assignments TBA)
R A 02 Student presentations (reading assignments TBA)
WEEK 13
T A 07 Student presentations (reading assignments TBA)
SCIENCE AND NATURE
R A 09 BARBAULD: "To Mr. S. T. Coleridge" (189)
C. SMITH: "Written in the church-yard at Middleton in Sussex" (227)
C. SMITH: "To fancy" (228)
C. SMITH: "To Dr. Parry of Bath, with some botanic drawings which had been made some years" (228)
C. SMITH: "Reflections on some drawings of plants" (229)
ROBINSON: "Come, Reason, come!" (320)
ROBINSON: "O Reason! vaunted sovereign of the mind" (320)
BAILLIE: "Thunder" (438)
AUSTEN: "To the Memory of Mrs. Lefroy" (768)
WEEK 14
T A 14 BARBAULD: "Washing-Day" (187)
W. WORDSWORTH: "The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon" (596)
W. WORDSWORTH: "Elegiac Stanzas" (602)
W. WORDSWORTH: "On the Projected Kendal and Windermere Railway" (623)
D. WORDSWORTH: "Floating Island at Hawkshead" (659)
D. WORDSWORTH: "Thoughts on My Sick-Bed" (669)
P. SHELLEY: "Ode to the West Wind" (1101)
CLARE: "The Morning Wind" (1249)
CLARE: "The Peasant Poet" (1251)
CLARE: "Pastoral Poesy" (1252)
ROMANTIC-ERA FICTION
R A 16 AUSTEN: Lady Susan (769)
WEEK 15
T A 21 M. SHELLEY: Mathilda (1339-1355)
R A 23 M. SHELLEY: Mathilda (1355-1376)
FINAL EXAMINATION--Tuesday, April 28 at 12:00 noon