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What is Poetry? What happens in our minds when we read it? How can Poetry influence our actions and moral judgment? Prompted by the rapidly changing political, social and geographical landscapes in the last decades of eighteenth-century Britain, a group of poets postulated these questions and set out in an unprecedented search for answers. These seekers – amongst whom figure William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon Lord Byron – would then become the main exponents of British Romanticism.
The course aims to trace the process of the Romantic redefinition of poetry through a close analysis of the several poetics and theories of criticism brought forth by the Romantics. Special attention will then be paid to the actual putting into practice of the established poetic guidelines in the form of close readings of a selection of exemplary poems.
Primary texts:
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1802 (recommended edition: Oxford World’s Classics, edited by Fiona Stafford)
A reader with the remaining material will be compiled and made available at the start of term.
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