ENL 5246 Summer 2018 Kimbrell

The nineteenth-century in England was an era of enormous social, political, and cultural change. The French Revolution of the 1790's set into motion a series of reactions on British soil, and though it?s monarchy remained intact, Britain experienced a revolution in its literature that still shapes our present notions of beauty, justice, nature, the formation of individual identity, and the defining qualities of imagination. This course will focus upon the poetry and prose of England from the late decades of the eighteenth-century through the mid-nineteenth-century. The majority of our attention will be directed toward the major poets of this period (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats), but we will also consider the poetry of Felecia Dorothea Hemans as well as prose from Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, Thomas De Quincy, Charles Lamb, and William Hazlitt.