English 331:  English Authors ---
Byron and Hemans.

Spring Semester 2005

Stephen C. Behrendt
319 Andrews Hall; 472-1806
office: 1-3 TR, and by appointment

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Texts for this course:

Lord Byron: Selected Poems. Eds. Susan Wolfson and Peter Manning (Penguin, 1996).
Lord Byron: Don Juan. Eds. T. G. Steffan, E. Steffan, and W. W. Pratt (Penguin, 1996).
Felicia Hemans: Selected Poems, Prose, and Letters. Ed. Gary Kelly (Broadview, 2002).
Felicia Hemans. Records of Woman, with Other Poems. Ed. Paula R. Feldman (Kentucky, 1999).

Additional materials will be available in the form of handouts and internet links to on-line materials and resources.

Tentative Schedule

Jan 11 T  Introduction: Byron, Hemans, the Romantic context, and literary celebrity

Jan 13 R  Byron: "A Fragment" (1); "To Woman" (1); "The Cornelian" (2); "To Caroline" (3)
                Hemans: "To the Muse" (93); "A Tribute to the Genius of Robert Burns" (93); "The Farewell" (95)
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Jan 18 T  Byron: English Bards and Scots Reviewers, 6-15 and 40-48 (skim pages 16-39)
               Hemans: from England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism (96); "Sonnet to Italy" (103);
                               "War-Song of the Spanish Patriots" (103); from "The Domestic Affections" (106)

Jan 20 R

Jan 21 F  Last day to drop this course without it appearing on your permanent record. After today a "W" will appear on
                               your record if you drop the course.
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Jan 25 T  Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto I (56); Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto II (94)

Jan 27 R
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Feb   1 T  Byron: The Giaour (167); The Bride of Abydos (209)

Feb   3 R
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Feb   8 T  Byron: "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte" (308); "Stanzas for Music" (314); "She Walks in Beauty" (315);
                             "The Destruction of Sennacherib" (355); "When we two parted" (391); "Fare thee well!" (392); "Prometheus" (394);
                             "Darkness" (412)

Feb 10 R
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Feb 15 T  Hemans: from The Restoration of the Works of Art to Italy; a Poem (112); from Modern Greece: a Poem (124)

Feb 17 R
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Feb 22 T  Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (415)

Feb 24 R
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Mar   1 T  Byron: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (508)

Mar   3 R

Mar   4 F  Last day to change your registration to or from "Pass / No Pass" status
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Mar   8 T  Hemans: "The Widow of Crescentius" (145); "The Wife of Asdrubal" (173); "The Rock of Cader-Idris" (177)

Mar 10 R  Hemans: "The Tombs of Platæa" (211); "England's Dead" (213); "The Voice of Spring" (215)
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March  13 - 20 — Spring Break – no classes —
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Mar 22 T  Byron: Don Juan, "Preface" (37), "Dedication" (41); Canto I (46); Canto II (102)

Mar 24 R
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Mar 29 T  Byron: Don Juan, Canto III (157); Canto IV (189)

Mar 31 R  Byron: Don Juan, Canto V (219)
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Apr   5 T  Byron: additional reading in Don Juan

Apr   7 R  Hemans: Records of Woman (specific assignments will be distributed in class)

Apr   8 F  Last day to withdraw from this course and still have a "W" appear on your permanent record instead of a conventional letter grade.
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Apr 12 T  Hemans: Records of Woman

Apr 14 R
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Apr 19 T  Hemans: Records of Woman

Apr 21 R
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Apr 25 T  Hemans: "Woman and Fame" (351); "Woman on the Field of Battle" (353); "Corinne at the Capitol" (355);
                                "The Song of Night" (360); "The Diver" (362); "The Requiem of Genius" (364); "Second Sight" (366);
                                "Elysium" (388)

Apr 27 R  Concluding matters

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Final Examination:   10:00 a.m. - noon, Tuesday, 3 May