ENL 5246 Eckert Summer 2022
Summer
2022
ENL 5246
Studies in British Romantic Literature: Romanticism and Lyric
Lindsay Eckert
From autobiographical sonnets by Charlotte Smith to confessional poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge to personal odes by John Keats, Romanticism is often synonymous with the lyric tradition. In this course, we will consider the rise of lyric in the Romantic period. Students in this course will focus on analytical skills for reading poetic form as well as theories of lyric, including the New Lyric Studies.
Requirements: This course fulfills the general literature requirement for one course in 1660-1900. It also satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Area of Concentration: American Literary and Cultural Studies to 1900; History of Text Technologies; or a Literary Genre (Poetry).