We finally really begin Antony and Cleopatra, discussing Plutarch's interest in character, and Shakespeare's, and what makes a tragic character interesting since we know what the plot will be. Aristotle on pity and terror again: usually the protagonist or main is someone innocent or at worst someone like ourselves: not so in Macbeth. After which we start analyzing the opening scene, with comparisons to Lear and to Hamlet as well (on the quantification of love). Many corny jokes.
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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