The Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets Part 1

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Call Number: BOCD 821.709 Sp Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact discs.
Twenty-four lectures on twelve discs.
Accompanying guide includes lecture notes and outlines, timelines, and glossaries.
Contains 24 lectures. Each lecture is 30 minutes.
Romantic beginnings -- Wordsworth and the Lyrical ballads -- Life and death, past and present -- Epic ambitions and autobiography -- Spots of time and poetic growth -- Coleridge and the art of conversation -- Hell to Heaven via Purgatory -- Rivals and friends -- William Blake : eccentric genius -- From innocence to experience -- Blake's prophetic books -- Women romantic poets.
"Mad, bad, and dangerous to know" -- The Byronic hero -- Don Juan: a comic masterpiece -- Shelley and romantic lyricism -- Shelley's figures of thought -- Shelley and history -- Shelley and love -- Keats and the poetry of aspiration -- Keats and ambition -- Keats and Eros -- Process, ripeness, fulfillment -- The persistence of Romanticism.
Professor Willard Spiegelman, lecturer.

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