A class where we finally talk about the whole soliloquy, with which I am obsessed, in which Macbeth calls or Seyton and considers how his way of life is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf." We get there by means of Sonnet 12, but that means talking about the sonnets: first the nature of sonnet sequences from Petrarch through Wyatt to Sidney and Shakespeare, then of course (via Wyatt) about Tottel's miscellany, and then a discussion of Sonnet 73 and its echoes of Macbeth's soliloquy, and ultimately about the nature of interruption, here as well as in Lear:
Prithee, go in thyself: seek thine own ease:
This tempest will not give me leave to ponder
On things would hurt me more. But I'll go in.
To the Fool
In, boy; go first. You houseless poverty,--
Nay, get thee in. I'll pray, and then I'll sleep.
Fool goes in
Poor naked wretches, whereso'er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm,
How shall your houseless heads and unfed sides,
Your loop'd and window'd raggedness, defend you
From seasons such as these?
Macbeth interrupts himself to call for his last loyal servant; Lear to dismiss him.
Victorian Poetry 26: Last class: Housman after a touch of Yeats and a little Michael Field
Victorian Poetry 25: Jeff Nunokawa visits to discuss Wilde’s ”Ballad of Reading Gaol”
Victorian Poetry 24: The Rhymers’ Club: Fin de siècle poetry, towards Wilde and Yeats
Victorian Poetry 23: Amy Levy, Robert Bridges and... Kipling
Victorian Poetry 22: A bit more Stevenson, George R. Sims, and the amazing Alice Meynell
Victorian Poetry 21: Later Victorian Forms: Stevenson, Guggenberger, MacDonald
Victorian Poetry 20: George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins
Victorian Poetry 19: Swinburne and Hopkins
Victorian Poetry 18: A touch of Fitzgerald and Hopkins; more on Meredith and Swinburne
Victorian Poetry 17: Some Meredith, then we begin The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam
Victorian Poetry 16: A little Patmore, then the rest of Goblin Market
Victorian Poetry 15: D.G. and C. Rossetti
Victorian Poetry 14: D.G. Rossetti and pre-Raphealitism
Victorian Poetry 13: Concluding class on Clough’s ”Amours de Voyage”
Victorian Poetry 12: Mainly Clough plus some narrative theory
Victorian Poetry 11: ”Long ago he was one of the singers” (Edward Lear) plus a little Clare
Victorian Poetry 10: ”The Hunting of the Snark” and some Clare
Victorian Poetry 9: ” ’Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ ”
Victorian Poetry 8: More on R. Browning’s ”Development” and then mainly his”Thamuris Marching”
Victorian Poetry 7: more on Aurora Leigh and then some Robert Browning
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