Social Conditions

 Jan 31: Syllabus and Introduction; William Blake: London (Hand-out)

 Feb 2: Mary Robinson: January 1795; The Old Beggar
William Wordsworth: Written in London 1802; The World is Too Much With Us

The Poet

 Feb 4: Blake: Introduction to Songs of Innocence; Intro. to Songs of Experience
W. Wordsworth: Milton 1802; selection from Preface to the Second Edition of Lyrical Ballads

 Feb 7: W. Wordsworth: Michael

 Feb 9: from A Defense of Poetry; Robert Burns

Childhood

 Feb. 11: W. Wordsworth: Prelude Part I

Feb 14: Joanna Baille: A Mother to her Waking Infant
Blake: From Songs of Innocence: The Lamb;

Feb. 16: Infant Joy; Chimney Sweeper; Holy Thursday
 

Revolution

 Feb 18: W. Wordsworth: The Prelude, Books X & XI

Feb 23: Blake: Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Feb 25: Reading Exam #1

Adulthood
 

Feb 25: Blake: From Songs of Experience: The Tyger; Sick Rose; Chimney Sweeper; The Garden of Love

 Feb 28: Charlotte Smith: Sonnet on the Sea; Coleridge: Dejection: An Ode
 

March 1: Dejection Cont. W. Wordsworth: Ode: Intimations of Immortality
 
 
 

Nature

 March 3: Ode Continued; The Leech-Gatherer

March 6: W. Wordsworth: Lines: Composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey

 March 8: Dorothy Wordsworth: Floating Island ; Coleridge: Frost at Midnight; This Lime Tree Bower my Prison

March 10: Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

 March 13: Mariner Cont.
 

Education

 March 15: Wordsworth: The Thorn
 

W. Wordsworth: Expostulation and Reply; The Tables Turned; The Prelude: Book 5

March 17: Reading Exam # 2; Paper #1 due
 

Gender

 March 20: Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Barbaud: Washing Day

 March 22: Blake: Visions of the Daughters of Albion
 

War & Protest

 March 24: Byron: From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

March 27: P. Shelley: The Masque of Anarchy; Ozymandias;

Paganism:

 March 29: P. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Byron: Prometheus
Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn; Reading Exam #3
 

Science, Feminism, and Justice

 March 31: Mary Shelley; Frankenstein

 April 3: Frankenstein cont.

 April 7: Frank cont.

 April 10: Frank. Concluded