Heaven in a Wild Flower : the British Romantic Poets

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

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Compact discs.
"14 lectures"--Container.
Lecture 1. What is romanticism? -- Lecture 2. Folk culture, the ballad tradition, and Robert Burns -- Lecture 3. Wordsworth and Coleridge : ballads of nature and the supernatural -- Lecture 4. Wordsworth's "Lyrical ballads 1798 and 1800" : rustic life and the questionable pleasures of nature -- Lecture 5. The descriptive-meditative poem and the divine in nature -- Lecture 6. Wordsworth and the invention of childhood -- Lecture 7. Blake and infantine innocence -- Lecture 8. Blake and satanic energy -- Lecture 9. The Byronic hero -- Lecture 10. Byron and Shelley : darkness and light -- Lecture 11. Gothic horrors : Coleridge's "Christabel" and Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus" -- Lecture 12. Keats's (mock-)gothic romances -- Lecture 13. Keats's great odes -- Lecture 14. Byron's comic epic : "Don Juan".
Lecture given by Adam Potkay.
Providing detailed analysis of the lives and works of literary luminaries such as Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, Professor Potkay examines the nature of Romantic poetry and provides insight on the stylistic flourishes and themes of this remarkable period.

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