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PH.D.CANDIDACYMAJORFIELDREADINGLIST

ROMANTICLITERATURE

(February2007)

Unless otherwise indicated, selections are from The Longman Anthology of British Literature, Volume 2A: The Romantics and Their Contemporaries, General Editor David Damrosch, Addison Wesley Longman.

FICTION Austen, Jane Northanger Abbey Sense and Sensibility Emma Mansfield Park Bront, Emily Wuthering Heights Brunton, Mary Self-Control Burney, Fanny Cecelia Evelina Dacre, Charlotte Zofloya Edgeworth, Maria Belinda Godwin, William Caleb Williams Hays, Mary The Victim of Prejudice Hogg, James Confessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner Lewis, Matthew The Monk Opie, Amelia Adeline Mowbray Peacock, Thomas Lowe Nightmare Abbey Radcliffe, Ann The Mysteries of Udolpho The Italian Scott, Walter The Heart of Midlothian Waverley Shelley, Mary Frankenstein The Last Man Wollstonecraft, Mary Maria; or The Wrongs of Woman POETRY Baillie, Joanna Longman Anthology selections Barbauld, Anna Laetitia Longman Anthology selections

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Blake, William Auguries of Innocence The Ghost of Abel All Religions Are One There Is No Natural Religion [a] There Is No Natural Religion [b] Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Songs of Innocence Introduction The Ecchoing Green The Lamb The Little Black Boy The Chimney Sweeper The Divine Image HOLY THURSDAY Nurses Song Infant Joy COMPANION READING

Charles Lamb: from The Praise of Chimney-Sweepers

Songs of Experience The Fly The CLOD & the PEBBLE HOLY THURSDAY The Tyger The Chimney Sweeper The SICK ROSE AH! SUN-FLOWER The GARDEN of LOVE LONDON The Human Abstract INFANT SORROW A POISON TREE A DIVINE IMAGE

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell The Book of Thel Visions of the Daughters of Albion Letters

To Dr. John Trusler To Thomas Butts (22 November 1802)

Burns, Robert To a Mouse Flow gently, sweet Afton Ae fond kiss Comin Thro the Rye (1) Comin Thro the Rye (2) Scots, wha hae wi Wallace bled Is there for honest poverty A Red, Red Rose Auld Lang Syne The Fornicator. A New Song Byron, George Gordon English Bards and Scotch Reviewers The Vision of Judgement She walks in beauty So, well go no more a-roving Childe Harolds Pilgrimage, I-III Don Juan, I and II Clare, John The Shepherds Calendar The Moors The Lament of Swordy Well The Badger

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The Nightingales Nest Songs Eternity Something from Don Juan Journey out of Essex One sample of natural history prose I Am An Invite to Eternity Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Poetry and Sleep The Eolian Harp This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere (1798), Part 1 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1817) Kubla Khan Christabel Fears in Solitude Frost at Midnight Dejection: An Ode (all versions) To William Wordsworth France: an Ode Work Without Hope Cowper, William Lines Written During a Period of Insanity Supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk, during

his solitary abode in the island of Juan Fernandez Epitaph on a hare The poplar-field The negros complaint Pity for poor Africans The Castaway Light Shining out of Darkness Crabbe, George The Village Sir Eustace Grey Peter Grimes The Frank Courtship Darwin, Erasmus The Loves of the Plants [an Ovidian allegory of the

Linnaean system in rhyming couplets, with scientific footnotes]

Eliott, Ebenezer Corn Law Rhymes (selections) Hemans, Felicia The Lady of The Castle Casabianca Properzia Rossi The Image In Lava Keats, John On First Looking into Chapmans Homer On the Grasshopper and Cricket from Sleep and Poetry On Seeing the Elgin Marbles On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again Sonnet: When I have fears The Eve of St. Agnes La Belle Dame sans Mercy Incipit Altera Sonneta (If by dull rhymes) The Odes of 1819

Ode to Psyche Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn Ode on Indolence

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Ode on Melancholy To Autumn

The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream This living hand Bright Star Landon, Letitia E. from The Improvisatrice Advertisement Sapphos Song Erinna Preface to The Venetian Bracelet, The Lost Pleiad, A

History of the Lyre, and Other Poems The Factory Infanticide in Madagascar Scott, Sir Walter The Lady of the Lake Shelley, Percy Bysshe Prometheus Unbound To Wordsworth Mont Blanc Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Ozymandias Sonnet: Lift not the painted veil Sonnet: England in 1819 The Mask of Anarchy Ode to the West Wind To a Sky-Lark To (Music, when soft voices die) Adonais Triumph of Life Julian and Maddalo Alastor Mutability Smith, Charlotte Elegiac Sonnets: Third Edition (1786) Beachy Head Wordsworth, Dorothy Journal selections from The Longman Anthology Wordsworth, William The Two-Part Prelude (1799) Lyrical Ballads (1798, 1800, 1802) The Ruined Cottage Home at Grasmere Poems in Two Volumes (1807) NONFICTIONANDDRAMA Beddoes, Thomas Lovell Deaths Jest-Book Blake, William A Descriptive Catalogue (No. III) Burke, Edmund A Philosophical Inquiry into the Sublime and Beautiful Reflections on the Revolution in France (selections) Carlyle, Thomas Sartor Resartus Cobbett, William Rural Rides (selections) Coleridge, Samuel Taylor Biographia Literaria, chapters 3, 4, 10, 13, 14, 16, 17,

20, 22

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Cox, Jeffrey and Michael Gamer The Broadview Anthology of Romantic Drama (plays by

Baillie, Byron, Coleridge, and Shelley) De Quincey, Thomas Confessions of an English Opium Eater On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth [from The

Norton Anthology of English Literature] Alexander Pope [from The Norton Anthology of

English Literature] Godwin, William Political Justice (selections) Hazlitt, William On Gusto My First Acquaintance with Poets [from The Norton

Anthology of English Literature] The Spirit of the Age Keats, John Letters

To Benjamin Bailey [The Truth of Imagination] To George and Thomas Keats [Intensity and

Negative Capability] To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth and

The Whims of an Egotist] To Benjamin Bailey [ardent pursuit] To John Hamilton Reynolds [Wordsworth, Milton,

and dark Passages] To Benjamin Bailey [I have not a right feeling

towards Women] To Richard Woodhouse [The Camelion Poet vs.

The Egotistical Sublime] To George and Georgiana Keats [Indolence,

Poetry vs. Philosophy, the Vale of Soul-Making]

To Fanny Brawne [You Take Possession of Me] To Percy Bysshe Shelley [An Artist Must Serve

Mammon] To Charles Brown [Keatss Last Letter]

Lamb, Charles Oxford in the Vacation Dream Children Old China Detached thoughts on Books and Reading Lewis, Matthew Castle Spectre (http://www2.unipr.it/~dsaglia/Lewis/

CastleProsp.html) More, Hannah Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

(selections) Paine, Thomas The Rights of Man (selections) Shelley, Percy Bysshe A Defense of Poetry On Life On Love Southey, Robert Review of Lyrical Ballads (October 1798) White, Gilbert Natural History of Selborne (selections) Wollstonecraft, Mary A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Wordsworth, Dorothy Journals (selections) Wordsworth, William Prefaces to Lyrical Ballads

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SECONDARYSOURCES

The following readings provide a general introduction to various topics of Romantic literature. Abrams, M. H. This Is Our High Argument, from Natural

Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature, New York: Norton (1971), 1770.

The Mirror and the Lamp Butler, Marilyn Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries Chase, Cynthia Viewless Wings: Intertextual Interpretation of Keatss

Ode to a Nightingale, from Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism, ed. Chaviva Hosek and Patricia Parker. London: Cornell UP, 1985: 208-25.

Cox, Jeffrey and Michael Gamer Introduction to The Broadview Anthology of Romantic

Drama Curran, Stuart Poetic Form and British Romanticism. Oxford, 1990. Hartman, Geoffrey Selections from Wordsworths Poetry 1787-1814 (1971

edition): The Solitary Reaper, From Salisbury Plain to The Ruined Cottage, Tintern Abbey, Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude.

Romanticism and Anti-Self-Consciousness, from Romanticism. London: Longman, 1993: 43-54.

Kelley, Theresa and Introduction to Romantic Women Writers: Voices Paula R. Feldman and Countervoices. Univ. Press of New England,

1995. McGann, Jerome The Romantic Ideology, 1983. Mellor, Anne Romanticism and Gender (Introduction) Poovey, Mary The Proper Lady and the Woman Writer: Ideology as

Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, and Jane Austen. Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1984: 172-207.

Said, Edward Jane Austen and Empire, from Culture and

Imperialism. New York: Vintage, 1994: 80-96.