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 6: mainly Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Victorian Poetry 5: E. Brontë, dialect, the amazing William Barnes
Victorian Poetry 4: Some filiations (Barnes, Hardy, Tennyson, Fitzgerald, &c.); then ”TITHONUS”
Victorian Poetry 3: Tennyson’s technique, Tennyson’s despair
Victorian Poetry 2: The weirdness of Tennyson
Victorian Poetry 1 -- Intro with poems by R. Browning, Beddoes, Patmore, Meynell, C. Rossetti
Poetry Episode 24: Last class, mainly on finishing Elisa Gonzalez’s ”Notes Toward an Elegy”
Poetry course 23: kind of whacky but more on Bishop and then Elisa Gonzalez
Poetry: A Basic Course 22: Tennyson, Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, Hemans, Bishop
Poetry A Basic Course episode 21: Beauty and truth in Dickinson and Keats
Poetry Episode 20: Chiefly ”The Emperor of Ice Cream”
Poetry a basic course episode 19: Some villanelles, mainly
Poetry Episode 18 Mont Blanc Concluded
Poetry Class Episode 17: Mont Blanc part 2
Poetry episode 16: More on metaphor, especially Shelley’s Mont Blanc: part 1 of a discussion of that poem
Class 15: More sonnets, and more on the relation of sonnet to metaphor
Episode 14 -- some sonnets
Poetry A Basic Course Episode 13 More Pope, Milton, Wyatt
Episode 12: Some Paradise Lost, some Pope, some more on meter, prime numbers
More on the theology of Paradise Lost (Episode 11)
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