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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 Jan 23, 2023
Victorian Poetry 2: The weirdness of Tennyson
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
One of Tennyson's epigraphs: "Astronomy and geology: terrible muses." The importance of Arthur Henry Hallam's death to Tennyson, especially because of his religious skepticism. Gibbon on St. Simeon Stylites. Dramatic Monologues. "Ulysses," in Carey's translation of Dante and then Tennyson's poem. The great Achilles = Hallam, but we know the ending from Dante -- he won't see him again.
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