Romantic Narrative Poetry: A Seminar - LIR 616
The course studies
the Romantics’ long narrative poetic works.
It explores Romantic narrative poetry as
a reflection of the Romantics’ concern in
the hero as a person of magnitude facing
the mystifying and incomprehensible
or as a common person living the tragic
events of everyday life. The course pays
particular attention to long narrative poetry
as a replacement for the epic. Texts include:
Wordsworth’s “The Prelude,” “The Ruined
Cottage,” and “Michael,” Coleridge’s
“Christabel” and “The Rime of the Ancient
Mariner,” Byron’s “Don Juan” and “Childe
Harold’s Pilgrimage,” Shelley’s “Alastor” and
“Epipsychidion,” and Keats’s “Endymion,”
“Isabella,” and “Hyperion.”