Professor Landow (office: 338 Carr House; e-mail: george@landow.com); office hours: 1.00-1:50, Monday and Wednesday. Class meets in Wilson 109A, 11-11:50 AM, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
Note: Check this on-line reading list at the beginning of each week since assignments may change or be reordered.
Classweb: Victorian Web
Reading: Begin exploring The Victorian Web; "The Kraken," "Mariana," "Mariana in the South," "The Palace of Art" [text -- discussion questions], "The Lady of Shalott" [text], "The Two Voices," "Tithonus," "Ulysses," "The Lotus Eaters," "Supposed Confessions of a Second-Rate Sensitive Mind."
Week 3. 15-19 September. Tennyson, Intertextuality, Intratextuality, and a Poetry of Fragments
Reading: In Memoriam; supplementary materials
Week 4: 22-26 September. Robert Browning, The Growth of the Dramatic Monologue
Reading: "Porpyhria's Lover" [text] "My Last Duchess," "Count Gismond," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St. Praxed's," "Cleon" [text], "Bishop Blougram's Apology," "Karshish," "Saul;" materials on the dramatic monologue.
Week 5. 29 September-3 October. Browning (and others)
Reading: "Caliban Upon Setebos," "How It Strikes a Contemporary," "Child Roland to the Dark Tower Came," "Two in the Compagna," "Pictor Ignotus," "Fra Lippo Lippi," "Andrea del Sarto," "Old Pictures in Florence," D. G.Rossetti's "The Blessed Damozel," "Jenny;" Swinburne, "Hymn to Proserpine," Eliot's "Journey of the Magi," "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
Weeks 6-7. 6-17 October. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and the Poem as Novel
Reading: Aurora Leigh; materials about the poem [October 13: Columbus Day holiday].
Week 8. 20-24 October. Christina Rossetti
Reading: All poems in Buckley Pre-Raphaelite anthology, some of which are in works section of the Rossetti section of the Victorian Web.
Week 9. 27-31 October. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Reading: All poems in Buckley Pre-Raphaelite anthology.
Week 10. 3-7 November. A. C. Swinburne. Sex and Politics, Sexual Politics
"Laus Veneris," "The Triumph of Time," "Dolores," "Hymn to Prosperine" [text], "Anactoria," "On the Russian Persecution of the Jews," "Hertha," "Mater Dolorosa," "Tiresias," and Dirae [text].
Week 11. 10-14 November. Reading: A. C. Swinburne. The Later Landscape Poetry
Reading: "Before a Crucifix" [text], " "A Foresaken Garden," "Evening on the Broads" [text], "By the North Sea" [text]. Recommended reading not in anthology: "Ave Atque Vale," "Thalassius," "On the Downs, "On the Cliffs," "A Nympholept," "The Lake of Gaube."
Weeks 12-13. 17-24 November. Gerard Manley Hopkins, the Pleasures of Pressure, and the Rhetoric of Difficulty
Reading: All poems in Works.
Weeks 13-14. 24 November and 1-5 December. W. H. Henley and the Late Victorian Lyric
Reading: In Hospital [text] Thanksgiving recess: 26-30 November..
7-10 December: Reading period; 12-20 December: Final Exam Period
Final project due when final exam is scheduled.
Last modified: 11 November 2003