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Syllabus — Romantic Poetry
Course code 221103
Paper Code: 221103 — Romantic Poetry
Marks: 100 · Credits: 4 · Class Hours: 60
William Blake — Selections from Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- Songs of Innocence: Introduction, The Lamb, The Chimney Sweeper, The Nurse's Song, Holy Thursday
- Songs of Experience: Introduction, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, The Nurse's Song, Holy Thursday, London
William Wordsworth
- Tintern Abbey
- Immortality Ode (Ode: Intimations of Immortality)
- It is a Beauteous Evening, Calm and Free
- London, 1802
- She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways
S. T. Coleridge
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Kubla Khan
Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron)
- Don Juan, Canto I
P. B. Shelley
- To a Skylark
- Adonais
John Keats
- Ode on Melancholy
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Ode to a Nightingale
- On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
What to Study
- Romantic themes: nature, imagination, revolution, melancholy, and the poet as visionary
- Form and music: the ode, the ballad, symbolism, and imagery in each poem
- Close reading of prescribed texts with attention to language, tone, and structure
Source: National University Four-Year B.A. Honours syllabus, Department of English, effective from session 2013–2014.