2.1 Romanticism and Victorianism
Read John Keats' ODE ON A GRECIAN URN illustrated with a set of beautifully painted Grecian amphoras (I've promised you to let you have an idea of these Greek vases...)
As discussed today (23 October 2006), here are some links to poems you might wish to comment for tomorrow:
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Suicide's Argument - a nice twist of an old argument
- Work Without Hope - one of Coleridge's best texts
- Percy Bysshe Shelley - The Cloud (1820)
- John Keats Ode on Melancholy - one of Keats' great Odes
- George Gordon Byron - On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year (1924) - poem written a few days beofre Byron died iat Missolonghi where he took part in the liberation of Greece.
William Blake's selection of texts that we discussed in class on October 18 and 23 (just in case you lost the texts).
Some of these texts are in PDF format and require Acrobat Reader. In case you do not have it, you may download it from here