ENGLISH 136A: The 19th-Century British Lyric (seminar)

Taught by: Christopher Rovee

Fall Quarter, 2009-2010

TTh 11:00-12:50, Room: 460-301

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The lyric through the 19th century. Social, political, and economic pressures on lyric. Literary-critical approaches to lyric. How poetry expresses relations in society. Poems by Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Tennyson, Browning, D.G. Rossetti, C. Rossetti, Arnold, and Hopkins.

This course also satisfies the Writing in the Major requirement for English.

This course fulfills the following Major Requirements:

  • Major's Seminar
  • Brit. Lit. 1750-1900 or Am. Lit. before 1900
  • Genre: Lyric Poetry