SUAFyL
Reading List Second Semester
(1798-1880)
The second semester is focused on the period that goes from 1798 to 1880, comprising what scholars have termed the Romantic Period and the Victorian Period. From the following four sections, students must choose three. Section I (Romanticism) is compulsory, and must be discussed in the tutorships. The other two sections must be agreed upon by students and tutor.
Section I. Romanticism
William Wordsworth The Tables Turned
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
The Lucy Poems
Michael
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Prelude: Book I
Preface to Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan
Christabel
Frost at Midnight
Dejection: An Ode
Biographia Literaria: Chapter XIV
George Gordon, Lord Byron Childe Harold s Pilgrimage: Canto IV
Don Juan: Canto I
The Vision of Judgment: Stanzas I-XXX
Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Mont Blanc
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
To A Skylark
The Sensitive Plant
Adonais
John Keats Letter to George and Tom Keats, Dec. 21, 27, 1817.
Letter to Richard Woodhouse, Oct. 27, 1818.
On First Looking into Chapman s Homer
Hyperion, Book I
The Eve of St. Agnes
Ode to Psyche
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
To Autumn
The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
This Living Hand.
All the poems, essays, and letters in this section are found in The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II., Frank Kermode, et. al.
Section II. The Victorian Period
John Stuart Mill What is Poetry?
The Study of Poetry.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Eagle
The Lotus-Eaters
The Herperides
Merlin and the Gleam
Percivale s quest (from Idylls of the King)
Ullyses