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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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Monday Nov 29, 2010
Monday Nov 29, 2010
Professional opportunities for female poets in the second half of the 18th century. ProtoRomanticism of Baillie and Barbauld. Question of description of human emotion. Baillie's interest in the passions. Comparison with and difference from Wordsworth. Barbauld's poem to Coleridge. Getting from Pope to Coleridge in two lines: "Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" (Pope) to "Dreamy twilight of the vacant mind" (Barbauld, on Coleridge). Barbauld's and Baillie's progressivism. Their interest in vicarious experience, especially their protoWordsworthian interest in the young. Coleridge a youth too, to Barbauld.
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