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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 15, 2010
Monday Nov 15, 2010
Young and Gray as examples of the proto-Romantic subjectivity we began discussing in Collins and Thomson. Ideas of the sublime. Burke on delight vs. pleasure. Young on the creative power of the senses: what they "half create" as NIght VII puts it. "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College" compared to "Cooper's Hill" and to Steely Dan (though no one caught the allusion). Why the alumni office doesn't want this poem taught: "Fields beloved in vain."
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