Poets, Radicals, and Reactionaries: Romantic Poetry in Conversation
ENGL 288
Fall 2025
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01
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This course provides an introduction to major poets of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain -- Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, and Keats -- and to questions central to the study of Romanticism as an artistic movement. These questions include: how do people experience nature? What is poetry's relationship to music, storytelling, and visual arts? How did Romantic poets respond to the French Revolution and the social and economic change that mark the period? What new ideas about originality and literary experimentation did they promote? Why do their works continue to resonate today? No experience with poetry or with British literature is expected; the course functions as an introduction to both. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (English) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Poems by William Blake, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, Lord Byron, John Clare, and John Keats
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Examinations and Assignments:
Several short papers, reading exercises; this course also carries a research option |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course contributes to the fulfillment of the following English major requirements:
British Lit., Literary History 2, elective.
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| Instructor(s): Weiner,Stephanie Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: TBA |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 25 | | SR major: 7 | JR major: 7 | | |
| Seats Available: 23 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 5 | FR: 2 |
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