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Romantic Poets Syllabus

Syllabus for the Course of Romantic Poets, MA Students
Instructor: Kareem Lowaymi Mutlaq
Contact: klmutlaq@gmail.com
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Course Objective:
This course is meant to offer a deeper understanding to the students of one of the most outstanding periods in English poetry,
the Romantic Poetry. Students will get a full knowledge of the historical, social, political, and intellectual context of the age. The
main tenets of the Romantic Movement which are in fact the upshot of this context will be discussed in detail. Students will read
the best poems of the master of the Romantic Movement in literature. They will explore dominant themes, techniques and
styles of poets of the period and get acquainted with the similarities as well as the differences among the poets.
Course Objectives:
- Learn the significant features of the Romantic poetry
- Recalls the historical and social events of the Romantic Period.
- Determines the importance of the particular poem in its historical and social context.
- Demonstrates the aspects of Romanticism in the sample poems.
- Analyzes the underlying meanings of the poem by using the elements of poetry
Sources:
- Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II
- How to Study Romantic Poetry By Paul O'Flinn
Course Schedule:
Weak 1
Introduction to the Age
Weak 2
Introduction to the Age Continued
Weak 3
The Romantics' Main Tenets
Weak 4
William Blake's Songs of Innocence: Some Sample Poems
Weak 5.
William Blake's Song of Experience: Some Sample Poems
Weak 6:
William Wordsworth: ‘Tintern Abbey’, "The Lucy Poems"
Weak 7
William Wordsworth: "Ode: Intimations of Immorality"
Weak 8
Samuel T Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" "Dejection and Ode",
Weak 9
Samuel T Coleridge: "The Eolian Harp", "Frost at Midnight", "Kubla Khan",
Weak 10
Lord Byron: "When We Two Parted", "She Walks in Beauty", "Darkness"
Weak 11
Lord Byron: "Child Harold's Pilgrimage", "Manfred"
Weak 12
P.B. Shelley: "Alaster", "Ode to the West Wind",
Weak 13
P.B. Shelley: "To a Skylark", "Prometheus Unbound", " Ozymendias"
Weak 14
John Keats: "Ode to Grecian Urn, " La Belle Dame Sans Merci",
Weak 15
John Keats: "Ode to Melancholy", "Ode to a Nightingale", "To Autumn",
Weak 16
Women Poets