Following is the detailed plan and structure of the entire course.
Day 1: 28 May (Saturday): 14:00-17:15
Lecture 1 (14:00-15:30) : Wordsworth and the French Revolution
Reading and discussion of poems and prose works (15:45-17:15)
Five sonnets: Warton’s ‘To the River Lodon’, Charlotte Smith’s ‘To the River Arun’, Bowles’s ‘To the River Itchin’, Coleridge’s ‘River Otter’, one of Wordsworth’s ‘Duddon Sonnets’.
Day 2: 1 June (Wednesday): 17:00-18:30
Lecture 2: Modern Biography and ‘Secrets of the Dead’:
Day 3: 4 June (Saturday): 14:00-17:15
Papers by Students (14:00-15:30) : T/A
Reading and discussion of poems and prose works (15:45-17:15):
Dorothy Wordsworth’s ‘Alfoxden Journal’
Day 4: 8 June (Wednesday): 17:00-18:30
Lecture 3: John Keats at Winchester:
Day 5: 11 June (Saturday), 14:00-17:15
Papers by Students (14:00-15:30) : T/A
Reading and discussion of poems and prose works (15:45-17:15):
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Frost at Midnight’
William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’
Day 6: 15 June (Wednesday): 17:00-18:30
Lecture 4: John Keats and the London Cavalry:
Day 7: 18 June (Saturday), 14:00-17:15
Papers by Students (14:00-15:30) : T/A
Reading and discussion of poems and prose works (15:45-17:15):
John Keats, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ and ‘To Autumn’
Day 8: 22 June (Wednesday): 17:00-18:30
Lecture 5: ‘Electric Lanternlight: Reflections on Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney, and John Keats’
Day 9: 25 June (Saturday): 14:00-15:30
Overview and Discussion