Victorian Poetry 3301-ZLB108
The aim of the course is to provide the survey of the most known poetic works of the Victorian period. Apart from the issues that Victorian poetry frequently addressed the special focus will be placed on experiments with genres, innovative forms and types of prosody that enabled new kind of poetical voices to emerge, for instance an innovative kind of poem dramatic monologue or the bildungsroman-in-verse. Alongside the texts the following issues will also be discussed during the course: experimental form in Victorian poetry, the dramatic monologue, Victorian meters, Victorian poetry and historicism, Victorian poetry and science, Victorian poetry and religious diversity, The Victorian poetess, the poetry of Victorian masculinities, aesthetic and decadent poetry, Victorian poetry and patriotism, voices of authority - voices of subversion: poetry in the late nineteenth-century. The suggested course schedule:
1. The Victorian Poet: Poetics and Persona: Alfred Austen "The Poetry of the Period", Mary Ann Stodart "Female Writers: Thoughts on Their Proper Sphere."
2. Browning (1812-1889) "Fra Lippo Lippi", "The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church".
3. Robert Browning "The Soliloquy of a Spanish Cloister", "Porphyria's Lover".
4. Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892) "The Lady of Shalott", "Ulysses".
5. Alfred, Lord Tennyson In Memoriam: 21, 34, 35, 95.
6. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) "The Windhover," "Hurrahing in Harvest", "I Wake and Feel the Fell of Dark, Not Day".
7. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882) "Jenny".
8. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888) Preface to Poems (1853), "Dover Beach", "To Marguerite - Continued".
9. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) "The Goblin Market" (Coventry Patmore "The Angel in the House").
10. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) Aurora Leigh (from Book I The Feminine Education Of Aurora Leigh, from Book V Poets and the Present Age).
11. Augusta Webster (1837-1894) "A Castaway", "The Happiest Girl in the World".
12. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898).
13. Emily Brontë "I am happiest when most away", Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Bertha in the Lane".
14. Test.
The final assessment will depend on attendance, active participation and the final test.
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Bibliography
Collins, T.J. and V.J. Rundle, eds., The Broadview Anthology of Victorian Poetry and Poetic Theory, Peterborough: Broadview Press, 1999.
Armstrong, I. And V. Blain, eds., Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre, 1830-1900, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Christ, Ch. T., Victorian and Modern Poetics, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
Faas, E., Retreat into the Mind: Victorian Poetry and the Rise of Psychiatry, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Leighton, A. Victorian Women Poets: A Critical Reader, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1996.
Mermin, D., The Audience in the Poem: Five Victorian Poets, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1983.
Psomiades, K. A., Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997.
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