August 23, 2012

January 26, 2016

Art: The Bard by Thomas JamesMusic: Serenade for String in C Major by Pyotr Ilyich TchaikovskyWhich of these methods did the British state use to try to control what was printed and available to readers during the Romantic period?

CensorshipTaxationBook burningNone of the above

The British state did not, by and large, practice overt censorship, but it did try to limit the publication and distribution of what it felt to be inappropriate or anti-establishment writing by imposing prohibitive taxes. Another mode of censoring ideas practiced by the state was to charge authors and publishers with blasphemy or sedition. This tactic rarely worked but it certainly scared many would-be radical authors and publishers.

The Bard by Thomas James1

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Learning Outcomes(What I Hope You Learn Today)Write a weekly responseUnderstand the reading art projectSummarize the introductionArticulate the difference between poets and Romantic poetsConsider outsiders

Weekly response assignmentsWeek 1 Response Assignment deadline extendedBoth Week 1 and Week 2 will be due on January 31st

Reading Art Project

Paraphrasing Sections of the introductionTry to highlight the main points of the section. What does a person need to remember in order to fully understand the topic? See if you can summarize the section in one or two sentences.

Paraphrase the Section for the ClassRevolution and Reaction The New Poetries: Theory and Practice (Concepts of the Poet and the Poem)The New Poetries: Theory and Practice (Spontaneity and the Impulses of Feeling)The New Poetries: Theory and Practice (Glorification of the Ordinary)The New Poetries: Theory and Practice (The Supernatural, the Romance, and Psychological Extremes)The New Poetries: Theory and Practice (Individualism and Alienation)Writing in the Marketplace and the Law Courts

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Who is a poet and for whom should a poet write?Write your answer on a piece of paper.

William WordsworthPowerPoint slide adapted from Marco Mulas: http://www.slideshare.net/mulasmarco/wordsworth-11192648?from_search=2

PoetryPoetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which is filtered through emotion recollected in tranquillity.Memory plays a fundamental role in the creative process of poetry.Poetry results from the active relationship of present to past experience.

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PoetryThrough the re-creative power of memory, the emotion is reproduced and purified in poetic form so that a second emotion, kindred to the first one, is generated. The entire process would be:object poet sensory experience emotion memory recollection in tranquillity kindred emotion reader emotion

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Who is a Romantic poet and for whom should a Romantic poet write?Notes below your answer in four groups.

In Your groups, Discuss how your readings fit (or dont fit) with the idea of a romantic poet and his audience

Large Group DiscussionWordsworthBlakeShelleyKeats

Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads (pp. 292-304)*Was Wordsworths Preface to the Lyrical Ballads condescending to the lower-class he claimed to be writing for?*Wordsworth describes a poet as being knowledgeable of life, giving a poet more understanding than a non-poet; does everyone agree with this?*Why didnt Wordsworth want his friends opinions or help?What does Wordsworth mean by scenes taken from common life? Where do we see that in the readings so far?What does Wordsworth say is the appropriate language of poetry? Do you agree or disagree?Coleridge later criticized Wordsworths claims for the language of poetry in that he disagrees that the language of rustics is the best language and that there is no difference between the language of poetry and prose. How do you feel about this debate?Main Menu

Blake Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience (~p. 118)How do the Introduction poems represent the practice of poetry? How are they different?What does the lamb symbolize in The Lamb? How consistent is this symbolic meaning when the image appears in other poems?How does your interpretation of The Lamb change after you read The Tyger?*What made Blake single out a lamb and a tiger to question where they come from?What do the Songs of Innocence, taken collectively, suggest about Blakes use of the pastoral? Consider pastoral themes, such as the loss of innocence, the healing power of nature, the triumph of life over death.*Do you think Blakes poems shone a light on his criticisms toward the culture of selling children for work?*Who do you think the child was?Main Menu

Shelley To a Sky-Lark (pp. 834-836) and from A Defence of Poetry (pp. 856-869)What does it mean when Shelley calls Bacon and Plato poets? How does Shelleys essay contribute to the disagreement between Wordsworth and Coleridge over the suitability of the language of prose in poetry?In what sense is poetry a moral exercise for its readers?What is the source of Shelleys hope and idealism in the essay and in the poems? Does his hope have a practical basis?*Is the whole point of the poem to express how he wants the world to appreciate his poetry as much as he appreciates the birds music?Main Menu

Keats Odes (~p. 927)How would you explain the poets relationship to the nightingale in the ode? How does it change from the beginning to the end?What is it that the poet seeks to escape when he fades far away in the third stanza? What is the implication that Beauty will not keep her lustrous eyes,/Or new Love pine at them beyond tomorrow? Compare this to the poets enthusiastic sympathy for lovers on the Grecian urn.In his letters, Keats writes that poetry should surprise by fine excess and not by SingularityIts touches of Beauty should never be half way thereby making the reader breathless instead of content. In another place he writes, We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon usPoetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject. To what extent does Keats achieve these goals in his odes? How?*How do Shelley and Keats use birds to illustrate their philosophies on life?Main Menu

Outlaws, Outsiders, and ExilesIntroduction

Outlaws, Outsiders, and ExilesFascination with the mysterious isolated figureMental state of the figure exiled from society, haunted by guilt over past transgressions, and defined by those crimesWomen poets engaging in the topic as exiled/isolated figuresGothic/satire

Learning Outcomes(What I Hope You Learn Today)Write a weekly responseUnderstand the reading art projectSummarize the introductionArticulate the difference between poets and Romantic poetsConsider outsiders

HomeworkReadings for the week:Byron Don Juan (pp. 673-674, canto 1-7) (feel free, of course, to continue reading if you like!) and Manfred (p. 638) (read the introduction and skim the dramatic poem)Coleridge Rime of the Ancient Mariner (pp. 443-459) Shelley Introduction to The Last Man (pp. 983-986)

Due Thursday, January 28, at 11:55 p.m.:Post to the weekly discussionDue Saturday, January 30, at 11:55 p.m.:Take quizzes (3)Due Sunday, January 31, at 11:55 p.m. to Turnitin:Weekly Response AssignmentDue Tuesday, February 2, in class:Reading log for each reading (4 total!)

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