This course will survey the four major English Romantic poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley with selected examples from their most remarkable work. A particular focus will lie on the socio-cultural environment of the poems' emergence.
A reader containing the course texts will be available in the first class meeting.
Recommended reading:
Abrams, Meyer H., The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition. New York 1953 u.ö.
Butler, Marilyn, Romantics, Rebels, and Reactionaries: English Literature and its Background. 1760 to 1830.
Three credit points will be awarded for attendance (1), an oral presentation of one poem (1) and a written essay on that poem (1).
Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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weekly | Mi | 12-13.30 (s.t.) | C01-258 | 15.10.2007-08.02.2008 |
Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM4 | 0/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM4 | 0/3 | ||||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Bachelor | (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM4 | 0/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM4 | 0/3 | ||||
Anglistik/Englisch | MA/SI/SII; LIT; B.2; B.3 | Teilleistung der Abschlussprüfung möglich HS | |||||
Studieren ab 50 | |||||||
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