First class on Victorian Poetry. The best and largest corpus of really good poetry in English -- really good because the novel is the bid for greatness now. But really good is really good. The Victorians' relationship to some modernists (just a little) and to the Romantics, especially Shelley and Wordsworth, illustrated in poems by Robert Browning, Beddoes, Patmore, Meynell, and Christina Rossetti.
N.B. Text will be Christopher Ricks, ed. New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse.
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
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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