ENL 5246 Spring 2024
Spring
2024
ENL 5246
Study of British Romantic Literature: Romanticism and Lyric
Lindsey 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 applying theories of lyric, including the New Lyric Studies, to a variety of poems from the period.
Requirements: This course fulfills the general literature requirement for one course in 1660-1900. It also satisfies the requirement for coursework in the following Areas of Concentration: Literary Genre (Poetry); British and Irish Literary and Cultural Studies: 1660-1900.