Cultivate an understanding of the development of English literature during this period
English Lit – Victorian Age
The Victorian Age (cont.)
Victorian Poetry: Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Elizabeth Barrett Browning / Robert Browning / Matthew Arnold
Objectives
To cultivate an understanding of the development of English literature during this period
To understand the texts from both literary and historical standpoints, including:as developing out of a new language and culture as elaborating on previous texts and ideas generating new language and ideas as sources for later literature, both as context and allusion a poetic and thematic structures
To be able to define key terms relative to the texts and period
Reading
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 2
Alfred, Lord Tennyson:
“The Lady of Shalott” (pages 1114-1118)”Ulysses” (pages 1123-1125)”Break, Break, Break” (pages 1126-1127)From
In Memoriam A. H. H.
(pages 1138-1141)”Crossing the Bar” (pages 1211-1212) Elizabeth Barrett Browning:
“To George Sand: A Desire” (page 1083)From
Sonnets from the Portuguese
:”Sonnet 21″ (page 1084)”Sonnet 22″ (page 1084)”Sonnet 43″ (page 1085) Robert Browning: “My Last Duchess” (pages 1255-1256)
“Fra Lippo Lippi” (pages 1271-1280)”A Grammarian’s Funeral” (pages 1286-1289) Matthew Arnold: “Isolation. To Marguerite” (pages 1354-1355)
“Dover Beach” (pages 1368-1369)”The Scholar Gypsy” (pages 1361-1367)
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