1. Romanticism, or, reading a movement Part one: Wordsworth and Coleridge
Eng205w: Cruising the difficult
Instructor: aaron goldsman
28 September 2015

2. Romanticism
Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer Above a Sea Fog (1818)

3. Wordsworth and coleridge
William Wordsworth, 1770–1850
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772–1834

4. poems
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”: “Frost at Midnight”: “Dejection: An Ode”:

5. Next class: Keats and Shelley
John Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale,” “Ode on Melancholy,” “Ode on a Grecian Urn” Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” When reading, try to think about the form—the Ode—in relation to Coleridge’s, but also among the four you’ll be reading. What does it accomplish? Why do you think these poets were so interested in the form?