Course Title: Romantic and Victorian Poetry

Course Code: ENG-504
Credit Hours: 3(3-0)

Course Content

📖 The Longman Anthology of British Literature (Vol. 2A, 2B)

Romantic Poets

🔹 William Blake

• A Poison Tree
• The Tyger

🔹 William Wordsworth

• The World is Too Much with Us
• We Are Seven

🔹 S.T. Coleridge

• Dejection: An Ode
• Christabel
• Kubla Khan

🔹 John Keats

• La Belle Dame Sans Merci
• A Thing of Beauty
• Ode on Melancholy
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode on a Grecian Urn

🔹 Lord Byron

• She Walks in Beauty
• When We Two Parted

🔹 P.B. Shelley

• Ode to the West Wind
• Ozymandias
• Love’s Philosophy

Victorian Poets

🔹 Alfred Lord Tennyson

• The Lotos-Eaters
• Tears, Idle Tears

🔹 Robert Browning

• Porphyria’s Lover
• My Last Duchess

🔹 Matthew Arnold

• Lines Written in Kensington Garden
• Dover Beach

🔹 Christina Rossetti

• Song
• After Death
• In an Artist’s Studio

Recommended Books

📚 Romantic Poetry:

• Aidan Day, Romanticism (1995)
• Anne Mellor, Romanticism and Gender (1993)
• Cynthia Chase (ed.), Romanticism (1993)
• Harold Bloom, The Visionary Company: A Reading of English Romantic Poetry (1961)
• Iain McCalman, An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1999)
• M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition (1958)
• Marilyn Butler, Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries (1982)
• Paula Feldman & Theresa Kelley (eds.), Romantic Women Writers (1995)
• Stephen Copley & John Whale (eds.), Beyond Romanticism: New Approaches to Texts and Contexts 1780-1832 (1992)
• Stuart Curran, Poetic Form and British Romanticism (1986)

📚 Victorian Poetry:

• Isobel Armstrong, Victorian Poetry: Poetry, Poetics, and Politics (1993)
• Joseph Bristow (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002)
• Linda K. Hughes, The Cambridge Introduction to Victorian Poetry (2010)
• Margaret Homans, Women Writers and Poetic Identity (1980)
• Richard Cronin et al. (eds.), A Companion to Victorian Poetry (2002)