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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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Oct 4, 2010
Oct 4, 2010
1hr 16 min
First class on Rochester: Range of his poetry, his songs, his satire against reason and mankind; reflections on libertinage and philosophy; reflections on the skills that make a poem great: line, transition; architectonic. Dryden great at all three; Rochester extremely good at the first two.
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