Romantic Narrative Poetry: A Seminar - LIR 616

This course examines the long narrative poetic works of the Romantics, exploring how narrative poetry reflects the Romantics' engagement with fundamental themes that mirror the sociocultural context of their time. The course emphasizes long narrative poetry as a modern successor to the epic. Key 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.