• Examine the figure of the poet or artist as presented in this work. In what ways are this writer's views the same as or different from those of other writers from this semester?
• Describe the concept of female authorship and the portrayal of women in this text. To what degree does this text writers exemplify the thoughts of Mary Wollstonecraft? 
  
• Describe the relationship between the speaker and nature in this work. In what ways and to what degree is the speaker's view “Romantic”? 
• Examine the portrayal of the faculties of the mind (reason, intellect, fancy, imagination) in this work. In what ways are this writer's views the same as or different from those of other writers from this semester?
• Describe the faculty of memory as it is discussed and exemplified in this work. In what ways are this writer's views the same as or different from those of other writers from this semester?
• Explain how the Gothic is exemplified in this work. Discuss in terms of specific characteristics associated with the Gothic genre.
• Examine the importance of and use of history—contemporary or earlier—in this work. In what ways are this writer's views the same as or different from those of other writers from this semester?
• To what degree does the secondary source essay assigned for the week offer a valid argument? Which points are particularly accurate, insightful, or different from your own?
  

Students are expected to give a brief (30-minute) oral presentation on one of the assigned readings for the semester, during which they will examine particular aspects of the text in order to provide a deeper appreciation of the text's meaning.

• A written version of the presentation will be submitted at the time of the presentation.
• Although no secondary source material is required for this assignment, ALL sources must be CLEARLY cited in the written version of the presentation.
• Oral citation of sources will be insufficient and may lead to serious consequences (Please familiarize yourself with the Graduate School's guidelines on academic dishonesty, which can be found in the most recent catalog).

		Readings:	Potential Topics:
Sept	25	Dorothy WW, Journals and Poems: 592-611 William WW: "Nutting": 450-52 and Handout "London, 1802": 476-77 "Resolution and Independence": 545-49 "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud": 551 "My Heart Leaps Up": 552 "Ode: Intimations of Immortality": 552-58 Recommended: Soderholm, "Dorothy Wordsworth's Return" Recommended: Jones, "Rude Intercourse"	Treatment of Nature Private vs. Public WW's Theory of Poetry Exemplified Relationship(s) Between WW and DW
Oct	2	Coleridge: "Frost at Midnight": 563-64 "Christabel": 585-601 "Kubla Khan": 602-604 "Pains of Sleep": 606-7 "Dejection: An Ode": 607-11 Recommended: Lawder, "Secret(ing) Conversations" Critical Response Paper Due	Characteristics of the Conversation Poem Treatment of the Gothic Treatment of Childhood (perhaps compared to WW) (Auto)Biographical Considerations Figure of the Poet The Fragment Poem
	9	Austen, Pride and Prejudice Recommended: Duckworth, "Reconstitution of Society": 306-15 Recommended: Johnson, "Pursuit of Happiness": 348-55 Deadline for Submission of Research Paper Abstracts	Class and Gender Female Relationships Education Use of Irony Sexuality
	16	Byron: 708-10 Manfred: 711-47 The Byronic Hero, 747-53 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: 765-79 Recommended: Cantor, "The Politics of the Epic"	Portrayal of Time/History/Chronology Narrator vs. Poet The Byronic Hero Role of Spirits in Manfred Bounds of Knowledge Power of Speech/Language
	23	Byron, from Don Juan: 781-862 and Recommended: LaChance, "Don Juan"	Dedication: Connection to Other Poets Don Juan and the Epic Tradition Morality and Custom Orientalism Narrator vs. Poet (Personas)
	30	Percy Shelley: 868-70 "To Wordsworth": 870-71 Alastor: "Mont Blanc": 871-75  "Sonnet: England in 1819": 878 "Mask of Anarchy": 879-88 Defence of Poetry: 920-30 Recommended: Carothers, "Alastor"	Anxiety of Influence Perceptions and Realities Political Commentary Theory of Poetry Exemplified (perhaps compared to WW) Role of Solitude Portrayal of the Feminine
Nov	6	PBS, "Ode to the West Wind": 794-96 "To a Skylark": 796-98 Adonais: 799-814 Prometheus Unbound Recommended: Jost, "Anatomy of an Ode"	Figure of the Poet Inspiration and Anxiety Forms of Elegy Use of Classical Themes
	13	Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Recommended: Mellor, "Possessing Nature": 355-68 Recommended: Lipking, "Frankenstein, the True Story": 416-34	Connections b/w Frankenstein and Paradise Lost Bounds of Knowledge Power of Speech/Language Function of Solitude Position / Role of women Reading
	20	Keats: 973-75 "La Belle Dame Sans Merci": 1001-2 (see also Letter to Benjamin Bailey: 1052) Odes: 1003-14 (see also Letters to George & Thomas Keats, 1046-47, and to George & Georgiana Keats, 1056-57) Fall of Hyperion, 1031-44 (see also Letter to Josh Reynolds: 1049-51) Recommended: Kelley, "La Belle Dame"	Portrayal of the Feminine Use of Classical Themes The Ode form Intimations of Immortality
	27	Hemans: 930-32 "Casabianca": 939-40 Records of Woman: 940-54 Responses: 957-61 Recommended: Lootens, "Hemans and Home"	Domesticity and the Portrayal of the Feminine Submission vs. Subversion Patriotism and/or Sentimentality
Dec	4	Popular Prose: 1086-87 Lamb: 1087-1098 Hazlitt: 1098-14 De Quincey: 1114-42 Recommended: Fang, "Empire, Coleridge, and Lamb"	Portrayal of Class/Poverty Identity: Charles and Mary in "Old China" Orientalism and De Quincey's Confessions Theories of Literature