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New for 2023: Victorian Poetry Scroll back for previous courses on Shakespeare, Eighteenth Century Poetry, Close Reading, Various film genres, Film and Philosophy, the Western Canon, Early Romantics, 17th Century Poetry, etc.
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Friday Oct 08, 2010
Friday Oct 08, 2010
FIrst (of two) classes on Swift. Swift's vividness compared to Rochester's. His misanthropy and also his sense of human wrong: how it's the fact that humans do wrong that makes them hateful, but the wrong they do is to humans. Corinna and Celia as human and as holding it together when everything is falling apart. Swift's sense of how hard aesthetic surface or "varnish" is. Virgilian description of a city shower.
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