Monday, March 9, 2009

Read in class

As far as my notes, annotations, and memory serve me, these are the readings we've done in class:

  • Alexander Pope (all excerpts in handout) - An Essay on Man, An Essay on Criticism
  • Thomas Gray (in handout) - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
  • Samuel Johnson (excerpt in handout) - "The Preface to Shakespeare"
  • William Blake - "All Religions Are One," From Songs of Innocence: "Introduction," "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "The Chimney Sweeper." (Note: I don't recall if this was discussed or not. Anyone?) From Songs of Experience: "Introduction," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Tyger," "London," "A Poison Tree." Very briefly, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (not on the reading list).
  • William Wordsworth - "We Are Seven," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Tintern Abbey" (technically called "Lines"), "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "My Heart Leaps Up," "Ode" (Intimations of Immortality), "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways," "The Prelude."
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "The Eolian Harp," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan" (first day of class--will not be on exam), Biographia Literaria.
  • John Keats - "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On Seeing the Elegin Marbles," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame sans Merci," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Letters: To George and Thomas Keats (negative capability), To John Hamilton Reynolds (Wordsworth's Poetry), To Richard Woodhouse (A poet has no identity).
Let me know of any errors or ommisions, and I'll update accordingly. Also, if anyone noted which stanzas and sections exactly we read of the longer works, I'll be forever indebted. I didn't write them down, and I can't always recall which notes were done in a class and which out.

3 comments:

  1. We did read "The Chimney Sweeper" in class, but I do not recall reading "Earth's Answer"

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  2. Thanks!

    (I'm glad that I'm adding and not accidentally subtracting things at this point :P Better to be familiar with more, not less.)

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  3. I didn't find the title "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways" in the book... is that the picture we saw in class?

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