Mainly a close reading of the unutterably subtle effects of the Song to Celia "Drink to me only with thine eyes."
Drink to me only with thine eyes,
And I will pledge with mine;
Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
And I’ll not look for wine.
The thirst that from the soul doth rise
Doth ask a drink divine;
But might I of Jove’s nectar sup,
I would not change for thine.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring thee
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not withered be.
But thou thereon didst only breathe,
And sent’st it back to me;
Since when it grows, and smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.
What makes it a song? What makes it a story? What's their relation? A look at "So Beauty on the water stood," in this context:
So beauty on the waters stood,
When love had sever’d earth from flood.
So when he parted air from fire,
He did with concord all inspire.
And then a motion he them taught,
That elder than himself was thought,
Which thought was yet the child of earth,
For Love is elder than his birth.
And then a brief return to "On my first son":
Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy;
My sin was too much hope of thee, lov'd boy.
Seven years tho' wert lent to me, and I thee pay,
Exacted by thy fate, on the just day.
O, could I lose all father now! For why
Will man lament the state he should envy?
To have so soon 'scap'd world's and flesh's rage,
And if no other misery, yet age?
Rest in soft peace, and, ask'd, say, "Here doth lie
Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry."
For whose sake henceforth all his vows be such,
As what he loves may never like too much.
Selfhood in 17th century poetry: Some Donne
Keats' Odes to Psyche and to a Nightingale
Last class on The Triumph of Life
Second Class on The Triumph of Life
Adonais and the opening of The Triumph of Life
The Fall of Hyperion and To Autumn
Keats and Hyperion: the young poet
LR. First Class on Keats: Eve of St. Agnes
Last class on Prometheus Unbound
Resistance and knuckling under
More on Mont Blanc and Prometheus Unbound
"The Two Spirits: An Allegory", Mont Blanc and an Introduction to Prometheus Unbound
Seeing souls in Frankenstein
Frankenstein, again, Prometheus, and Satan
10. Frankenstein via Byron and The Witch of Atlas
The Witch of Atlas: Phosphor reading by her own light
Don Juan, Canto 5
LR 7: Don Juan Cantos 3-4
LR 6: Don Juan Canto 2: Juan and the Narrator
Later Romantix 5: First Class on Don Juan
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