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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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Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Early Romantics XIX Monday 4-1-19 Bouncing around the Prelude
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
Tuesday Apr 02, 2019
We go back briefly to the intimations ode and to Montaigne's that philosophy is learning how to die -- intimations of mortality. All philosophy is. Then we knock around The Prelude -- recumbent o'er the surface of past time, the two consciousnesses, and some of the boat-stealing scene, with a digression on metaphor: sex as a vehicle in that scene about vehicles.
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