“The Romantics and Their Contemporaries” ( Longman 3-29).
Charlotte Smith “To Melancholy”; William Wordsworth “”I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”; Percy Shelley “Sonnet: England in 1819.”

Check links on the websie to Poetry, Novel, Aids to Research, Sources on the Web, Literary-Critical Studies, Politics & Society, Empire & Slavery, and Women & Gender.

Romanticism and Slavery. Longman Anthology : “The Abolition of Slavery” (209-10); Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative (210-19; color plates 4 & 5); John Newton “Amazing Grace” (230); Hannah More “The Sorrows of Yamba” (240-44); Phyliss Wheatley “An Hymn to the Morning” (handout); William Blake “The Little Black Boy” from Songs of Innocence.

See links “Writings on Slavery” and “Empire and Slavery.”

William Blake Songs of Innocence and of Experience.
Examine the combined title-page (plate 1) and the frontispieces (plates 2, 28); read both “Introduction” poems (plates 4, 30), the two “The Chimney Sweeper” poems (plates 12, 37), “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” (plates 8, 42), and “A Cradle Song” (plates 16-17).

Consult the Blake Archive: click “US” at bottom of home page, click "About Blake," then “Illuminated Printing,” then “New Print Technologies.”

Blake's Songs: both sets of “Holy Thursday”(plates 19, 33), both “Night” (plates 20-21) and “The Little Girl Lost/The Little Girl Found” (plates 34-36), and “London.” Letter “To Dr. John Trusler” ( Longman 204-5).

William Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads : “Lines Written in Early Spring,” “We Are Seven,” “Expostulation and Reply,” “The Tables Turned,” “Lines Written…above Tintern Abbey” (study this poem).

*Short Essay on Blake due.

Wordsworth “Resolution and Independence”; “My Heart Leaps Up; “There Was a Boy”; The Prelude from Book Second [Blessed the Infant Babe] (Longman 468-70).

Samuel Taylor Coleridge “The Eolian Harp"; “Dejection: An Ode.”

SPRING BREAK

Coleridge: “Kubla Khan”; Mary Robinson “To the Poet Coleridge” (Longman 616-18); Anna Letitia Barbauld “To Mr. Coleridge” (handout).

Longman 319; Mary Wollstonecraft from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (281, 283-6, 288-96); Barbauld “The Rights of Woman” (315-16).

Anna Letitia Barbauld “Eighteen Hundred and Eleven” and J.W. Croker's Review (78-80); Felicia Hemans “Casabianca,” “The Graves of a Household.”

George Gordon, Lord Byron Don Juan “Dedication” and Canto 1.
Read “The Byronic Hero” (Longman 695-6) and “ Don Juan ” (727-8).

*Short paper due. Optional with assignment on 4/9: essay on women writers (see assignment sheet)

Byron Don Juan Canto 1.
Read Letters to Murray ( Longman 747-49)

Percy Shelley “To a Sky-Lark,” “The Mask of Anarchy” (761-71), “Ode to the West Wind.” Re-read “Sonnet: England in 1819.”

5/7

John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”; “To Autumn.”
Read “The Odes of 1819” ( Longman 950-1) and Letters “To Reynolds” (996-8), “To George and Georgiana Keats” (1001-4 ).

*Website projects due.