Schedule.

All assignments are either in the Broadview anthology or in the Jenn’Äôs anthology. Those in the latter are preceded by an ’ÄúX.’Äù

(A ’ÄúG’Äù refers to optional pages in Bump, Gerard Manley Hopkins, available in the library and on the net at the Gale literary research cite.)

 

Aug. 28

X3                             Course Description

X4-10                     Schedule

X11-13                  Group Participation Guidelines

X14-15                  Guidelines for Listening

X16                          Racial Harrassment Policy

X17-18                  Sexual Harrassment Policy

X19                   PC vs Mac

X20                          Changing your email address for Blackboard

X21-27                  ’ÄúForm and Matter in the Publication of Research’Äù

X28-2               Putting Pages on the Web  Using Webspace

 

 

Sept. 2

 

themes: Vic reaction to Romanticism; the divided self; art for art’Äôs sake vs.  moral aesthetic;

time: return;

forms: Romantic lyric/temptation poem; metaphor; myth; onomatopoeia

 

Tennyson: Lady of Shalott 162-165; Lotos Eaters 172-175; Ulysses 186-187. Collins: Lotos Eating 787

X30-34                  Old Print Bibliography

X35                          ’ÄúRomanticism’Äù

X36                          ’ÄúHellenism’Äù; ’ÄúHebraism’Äù

X37-43                  ’ÄúVictorianism’Äù

X44                          Kipling, ’ÄúTwo-Sided Man’Äù

X45                                                                      ’ÄúThe Divided Self’Äù

X46-52                  ’ÄúVictorian Poetry and Poetics’Äù

Review and be ready to ask and answer questions about introductory materials discussed last time

 

 

 

Sept. 4

 

themes: Victorian reaction to Romanticism; emotion vs reason, pattern of conversion to art and/or nature;

 time: present;

 form: Romantic lyric;

 

Arnold: Buried Life 723-4; Mill, What is Poetry 1212-1220; Two Kinds of Poetry 1220-1227.

X53-65                  ’Äúthe Pattern of Conversion’Äù    

X66-72                  Mill, Autobiography, ch. 5,

 

Optional:

X73-85                  ’ÄúReader-centered Criticism and Bibliotherapy: Hopkins and Selving’Äù

 

 

 

Sept. 9

 

themes: emotion vs. reason;

time: present;

forms: metaphor, simile, personification.

 

Ruskin ’ÄúOf the Pathetic Fallacy’Äù 1282-1291

X86                          Arnold, Lines Written in Kensington Gardens

X87-100               ’ÄúScience, Religion, and Personification in Poetry’Äù and excerpt from ’ÄúStevens and Lawrence: The Poetry of Nature and the Spirit of the Age’Äù

X107-8                  Hopkins's "The Starlight Night"  + "Spring"

 

 

 

Sept. 11 and 16  

 

theme: formalism vs. the moral aesthetic;

time: historical setting vs. present moment;

 form: dramatic monologue.

 

Browning: My Last Duchess 309-310. Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister 310-311. Porphyria’Äôs Lover 312-313; Bishop Orders His Tomb 315-317, Tocatta of Galuppi’Äôs  325-327.

Compare to MacDonald: Professor Noctutus 765;  Tennyson: St. Simeon Stylites 183-185; Morris, Defense of Guenevere 885-890; Swinburne Anactoria 979-984  and Hymn to Proserpine 984-986; Mew The Farmer’Äôs Bride 1165-1166. 

X112                Criteria of Dramatic Monologues

X113-14               The Sympathetic Imagination

X115-16               My Last Professor

 

 

 

Sept. 18

 

1st five-page essay to be posted for feedback.

 

theme:  Victorian religious discourse as palimpsest;

time: past, present, future, progress vs. return:

form: sonnet, analogy, metaphor, literary symbol.

 

 Hopkins’Äôs Hurrahing in Harvest 1048; X117-129 "Victorian Religious Discourse’Äù

 

Computer Work Assignment due soon:

respond to posted projects in two days.  Please respond in sufficient detail to reveal that you have read the project closely.  Let the author of the essay know how it affected you as a reader, where you were pleased, where you got confused, where irritated, etc. In general, evaluate the other students’Äô essays as works of art. If each essay were, say, a statue, which little as well as big flaws should be corrected?

 

Sept. 23

 

1st five-page essay (hard copy) due, including printout of suggestions from others

 

Themes: natural sacramentalism

time: eternal present;

form: sonnet, ode, literary symbol;

 

 Hopkins: Wreck stanza 5, p. 1042; Hurrahing in Harvest; As Kingfishers 1049; God’Äôs Grandeur 1047; Windhover1047,

X101                       Hopkins's ’ÄúHalfway House’Äù

 

G78-92, 125-157

 

 

Sept. 25

 

Meet outside entrance to HRC.

 

Themes: nature, HRC publication;

time: providential, Edenic;

forms: sonnet, ode, biblical pastoral, sprung rhythm.

 

Hopkins, ’ÄúPreface’Äù 1355-1357

X130-133            HRC: Guide to southeast corner window

X134-143            ’ÄúCatalogue of the Hopkins Collection’Äù

X107-8                  Hopkins, "Spring"  + ’ÄúIn the Valley of the  Elwy’Äù

 

 G ’ÄúDrawings’Äù 25-30; ’ÄúA New Style’Äù 64-78 ’ÄúDragon in the Gate’Äù 117-121

 

Internet preparation for today’Äôs activities: to prepare for our visit to Hopkins’Äôs drawings in the HRC go to

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/images/Hopkins/

Here are pictures of some of the drawings (or ones similar to them) that we will see at the HRC, listed as drawings1.jpg, drawings3.jpg, and drawings4.jpg

 

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Sept. 30

 

Themes: Victorian mourning;

time: elegiac return;

forms: pastoral lyric; Hellenic pastoral elegy.

 

 Arnold: Scholar Gypsy727-732, Thyrsis 733-738,

X86                          Arnold, Lines Written in Kensington Gardens

 

 

 

Oct. 2

 

Themes: reading literally vs. figuratively; Bible  vs. Book of Nature;

time past, present, future;

form: quatrain.

 

Tennyson: In Memoriam 204-253, esp.  #1, #5 ; #27 ; #s 47-56 ; #118; #123 (quoted on the south side of the Hogg building, referring to the time when this part of Texas was at the bottom of the sea.); #48 vs. Mary Coleridge ’ÄúWinged Words’Äù 1134. review X53-65 ’ÄúPattern of Conversion’Äù

 

 

 

Oct. 7

Second five- page essay or first seven-page to be posted; responses due by Oct. 9, hard copy Oct. 14.

 

Themes: Romantic elegy for childhood and nature;

time: elegiac nostalgia;

 forms: sonnets, short lyric; 

 

G. Eliot ’ÄúBrother and sister’Äù 644-648; Hopkins ’ÄúGod’Äôs Grandeur’Äù 1047; X110 ’ÄòSpring and Fall,’Äù   X108-9 ’ÄúBinsey Poplars’Äù’Äô; X107-8 ’ÄúSpring’Äù; X109 ’ÄúRibblesdale’Äù

 

G Poet of Nature: Tragic Vision 158-162

 

 

Oct. 9

 

Themes: Disappearance of God vs. pattern of conversion to literature and art;

time; elegiac nostalgia;

Form: Romantic lyric,  autobiography.

 

 Arnold, Dover Beach 723-4; Hopkins’Äôs Nondum X102-3; Hardy, ’ÄúHap’Äù 1029;  Pater, Conclusion to The Renaissance 1349-1354; Miller, ’ÄúDisappearance of God’Äù X144-152           

 

 

Oct. 14

 

Themes: saved by erotic love, by nature;

time: present

form: sonnet, lyric.

 

EB Browning sonnets 77-78; Browning ’ÄúTwo in the Campagna’Äù 400-401; Arnold, To Marguerite poems 699; E or C Bronte, ’ÄúOften rebuked, yet always back returning’Äù 549;  George Meredith ’ÄúModern Love’Äù 793-805

 

 

Oct. 16

 

Meet at HRC entrance

 

Themes: medievalism;

time: return;

forms: dream vision; wordpainting, mimesis of motion.

 

 D Rossetti,  The Blessed Damozel 806-808;  Hopkins's wordpainting: X107-109 "Binsey Poplars" and "The Starlight Night" vs. Hopkins's "The Windhover," 1047 lines 1-8 and Wreck 1043-1044  stanzas 12-19;  Morris ’ÄúOrnamental Art’Äù 1372-1384

X153-4                  Lang, "Characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite Painting and Poetry"

X155                       ’ÄúDualism’Äù

X156                       D. Rossetti, ’ÄúThe Lover’Äôs Walk’Äù

X156-7                  D. Rossetti, ’ÄúSevered Selves’Äù

X158-164            Pre-Raphaelite Art at the HRC

X165-179            Pre-Raphaelite Art

 

[G41-2, 65, 131-2, 146-148]

 

Oct. 21

First ten- page essay to be posted; responses due by Oct. 23; hard copy by Oct. 28

 

Theme: medievalism;

time: return;

forms: Gothic and the grotesque.

 

Bagehot on Browning  and the Grotesque 1308-1320, esp. 1316-1320.

X183                                                                Definitions of Gothic

X184-211                                           Ruskin, The Nature of Gothic

 

 

Oct. 23:

 

Themes: PRB as a school, gender and collaboration;

 time: return;

forms: parody, narrative poetry, sonnet.

 

C Rossetti, Goblin Market 848-855 In an Artist’Äôs Studio 870  Yeats ’ÄúThe Stolen Child’Äù X225 "Christina Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood" X212-224

 

G 43-56

 

Oct. 28 and Oct. 30

Oct. 28: third five-page essay due.

 

Themes: PRB, individualism vs.  intertextuality; competition and collaboration;

time: return;

forms: sonnet, allusion, metalepsis, sprung rhythm.

 

Buchanan ’ÄúFleshly School of Poetry’Äù 1329-1340; D Rossetti ’ÄúStealthy School of Criticism’Äù 1341-1345; Dante Rossetti ’ÄúHouse of Life’Äù 827-833; ’ÄúLost Days’Äù and ’ÄúThe Heart of the Night’Äù X227; Hopkins ’ÄúI wake and feel’Äù 1052; ’ÄúNo Worst’Äù 1051; ’ÄúCarrion Comfort’Äù 1051; ’ÄúMy own heart’Äù 1053; ’ÄúThou art indeed just’Äù X110-111; ’ÄúSpelt from Sibyl’Äôs Leaves’Äù 1051; ’ÄúThat Nature is a Heraclitean Fire’Äù X111; "Influence and Intertextuality: Hopkins and the School of Dante’Äù X228-240

 

G 167-196

 

 

 

Nov. 4

 

Theme: Hellenism vs. Hebraism;

 time: return;

forms: elegy, ode, sprung rhythm,  deep parody and antiparody.

 

 Swinburne, ’ÄúAtalanta’Äù 928-965; Hopkins, ’ÄúAd Mariam’Äù ’ÄúRosa Mystica’Äù X104-7; ’ÄúThe Wreck of the Deutschland’Äù 1041-1047.

 

G  93-128

 

Nov. 6.

 

Themes:  Hellenism vs. Hebraism; 

time: return;

forms: deep parody and antiparody.

 

Morely, ’ÄúMr Swinburne’Äôs New Poems’Äù 1320-1325; Swinburne, ’ÄúUnder the Microscope’Äù 1346-1348; ’ÄúLaus Veneris’Äù 965-973; ’ÄúTriuimph of Time’Äù 973-978; ’ÄúHymn to Proserpine’Äù 984-987; ’ÄúDolores’Äù 989-996; Hopkins, ’Äú ’ÄúAndromeda’Äù x109-110; review Hopkins’Äôs terrible sonnets

 

 

 

Nov. 11

 

Themes: Aestheticism, Impressionism, and Imagism;

time: present;

forms: narrative, short lyric, sonnet.

 

 Morris ’ÄúDefense of Guenevere’Äù 885-890, ’ÄúApology’Äù 894; Dante Rossetti, ’ÄúWoodspurge’Äù 817; Yeats, ’ÄúThe lake Isle of Innisfree’Äù;  Wilde ’ÄúHelas!’Äù 1106; Impressions 1107; Symphony in Yellow 1107; Hardy ’ÄúNeutral Tones’Äù 1029 ’ÄúSnow in the Suburbs’Äù 1033; Mary Coleridge LXIII 1134; CXIV 1135; ’ÄòThe Aesthetic Movement’Äù and W. B. Yeats, "Autobiography" X241-250

 

 

Nov. 13  tba

Second seven-page essay to be posted; hard copy due Nov. 18

 

 

Nov. 18. tba

 

       Nov. 20 tba

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      Nov. 25 tba

fourth five-page essay to be posted. Responses due  by Dec. 2

 

Dec. 2 tba

 

Dec. 4 tba

 

 

Dec. 8 LAST ESSAYS DUE BY 3 PM

 

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