September 4

August 23, 2012

September 4, 2013

Art: The Fighting Temeraire by JMW TurnerMusic: Beethoven Symphony No. 5, Op. 67

The Fighting Temeraire JMW Turner1

William BlakeSongs of InnocenceAndSongs of Experience

William Blake, 1757-1827Poet and PainterEngraverDeveloped own mythology/religionUsed Christian symbols but not Christian conceptsFirst major Romantic poet

Ancient of Days

The Great Red Dragon and the Women Clothed with the Sun

Elohim Creating Adam

Good and Evil Angels

Michael Binding Satan

Satan Inflicting Boils Upon Job

Nebuchadnezzar

Pity

Blakes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell is part social satire, part social manifestoBlakes piece reacts to the eighteenth-century rationalist codification or discounting of human aspects like love and spirituality (by the church), the imagination and the idea of mind/body (by philosophers and poets). While reading, think about how Blakes epigrams compare to the form and content of Pope or Swift.

ContrarianismThe belief that good and evil as defined by contemporary religions are not really opposite, but different parts of one great whole.

Songs of Innocence/Experience

"The Lamb"

"The Tyger"

William WordsworthPowerPoint slide adapted from Marco Mulas: http://www.slideshare.net/mulasmarco/wordsworth-11192648?from_search=2

Life

William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in a little town in the Lake District in the north-west of England.

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Life

In 1787 he entered Cambridge and while still a university student he went on a three-month walking tour of France, the Swiss Alps and Italy, and was greatly impressed by the beauty of the landscape.

When he finished his degree he returned to France and became a passionate supporter of the democratic ideals of the French Revolution.


Life

In 1794 he went to live with his sister Dorothy in a small village in Dorset. In the same year he met Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a poet with similar radical political and literary views. This friendship had a lasting impact on both poets.

William and Dorothy went to live close to Coleridge. Together they discussed political issues, read, wrote, exchanged theories on poetry and commented on each others work. In this period of intense creativity they produced the Lyrical Ballads (1798), a collection of poems. The second edition of 1800 contained Wordsworths famous Preface, which was to became the Manifesto of English Romanticism.


Life

In 1799 William and Dorothy moved to Grasmere, one of the loveliest villages in the Lake District, a region that Wordsworth immortalised in his poetry.


LifeIn 1802 he married a childhood friend and together they had five children. During this period he produced Poems, in Two Volumes (1807) a collection which includes some of his best poems. In 1805 he finished his masterpiece The Prelude, a long autobiographical poem published posthumously in 1850. It describes the crucial experiences and stages of the poets life and is an introspective account of his emotional and spiritual development.


Life

His reputation began to grow and his works became increasingly popular.

In 1843 he was given the title of Poet Laureate, in recognition of his contribution to English literature.In the last years of his life Wordsworth became more conservative in his political views, abandoning the radical politics and idealism of his youth.He died in 1850, at the age of eighty.


Nature

Wordsworth was a great innovator. He found his greater inspiration in nature. His poetry offers an account of the interaction between man and nature, of the influences, emotions and sensations which arise from this contact.His main interest is the poets response to a natural object.One of the most consistent concepts in his poetry is the idea that man and nature are inseparable.


Nature

Man is an active participant in the natural world.

Nature is something that includes both inanimate and humane nature, each is a part of the same whole.Nature comforts man in sorrow.Nature is a source of pleasure and joy.Nature teaches man to love and to act in a moral way.Wordsworths poetry celebrates the lives of simple rural people, he sees them more sincere than people living in cities.


Children

Children are regarded as pure and innocent, uncorrupted by education and the evils of the world.

Childhood is the most important stage in mans life.

What the child sees is both more imaginative and more vivid than the perception of the adult.


Poetry

Wordsworth believed that intuition, not reason, should guide the poet.Inspiration should come from the direct experience of the senses. Wordsworth exploited especially the sensibility of the eye and ear.PowerPoint slide adapted from Marco Mulas: http://www.slideshare.net/mulasmarco/wordsworth-11192648?from_search=2

PoetryPoetry, he wrote in the Preface, originates from the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings which is filtered through emotion recollected in tranquillity.Memory plays a fundamental role in the creative process of poetry.Poetry results from the active relationship of present to past experience.


PoetryThrough the re-creative power of memory, the emotion is reproduced and purified in poetic form so that a second emotion, kindred to the first one, is generated. The entire process would be:object poet sensory experience emotion memory recollection in tranquillity kindred emotion reader emotion

poem


The Poet

The poet has greater sensibility and the ability to penetrate to the heart of things.The power of imagination enables him to communicate his knowledge.The poet becomes a teacher who shows men how to understand their feelings and improve their moral being.The poets task consist in drawing attention to the ordinary things of life, to the humblest people, where the deepest emotions and truths are to be found.


Percy Bysshe Shelley

This is PercyThis is Mary

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Facts of LifeBullied all through school and universityLed to his obsession with reading, rumored to be 16 hours a dayUnpopular with both students and teachers (he never attended class)Published poetry and periodicals while still in schoolWas expelled from school because of a poem he wrotePowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation from the following site: elizabethdearcos.com/.../2012/01/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley.ppt

On the moveMoved away from England at 19 to get married ( to 16 year old Harriet).Wanted an open marriage, but his wife wouldnt allow it moved to IrelandUnhappy with his marriage, Shelley would leave his wife and child to visit friendsFell in love with Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft, womens rights activistPowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation from the following site: elizabethdearcos.com/.../2012/01/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley.ppt

InfluencesAbandons his pregnant wife and child to run away with Mary. They had only been married three years.Deeply influenced by William Blakes poetryMet Lord Byron through Marys step-sister both men influenced each others workShelley tried to gain custody of his children, whose mother had killed herself. He lost and they were given to foster parents

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A tragic endIn 1822, Shelley and a friend went sailing off the northwestern coast of Italy.A storm caught them by surprise, capsized the boat, and both men drowned.Shelley was only 30 years old.PowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation from the following site: elizabethdearcos.com/.../2012/01/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley.ppt

Messages of his poetryIdealismNonconformityOpposition to all injusticeChange the world through love, imagination, and poetryToo radical for most romanticsVegetarianismPowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation from the following site: elizabethdearcos.com/.../2012/01/Percy-Bysshe-Shelley.ppt

Mary Wollstonecraft1759-1797PowerPoint slide adapted from Gregory Priebe: http://www.slideshare.net/gpriebe/mary-wollstonecraft-4071116?from_search=5

Brief Biography

Described as a "hyena in petticoats" Self-taughtLed a troubled lifeFather was a bullyLeft home at 19Helped sister escape an abusive husbandSuicidal at timesPowerPoint slide adapted from Gregory Priebe: http://www.slideshare.net/gpriebe/mary-wollstonecraft-4071116?from_search=5

Brief Biography

Had jobs as governess, translator, literary advisor, article writerA radical Argued her whole life for the liberation and education of women. PowerPoint slide adapted from Gregory Priebe: http://www.slideshare.net/gpriebe/mary-wollstonecraft-4071116?from_search=5

Brief Biography

Observed the Revolution first-hand Wrote Vindication of the Rights of Man in rebuttal to Burke PowerPoint slide adapted from Gregory Priebe: http://www.slideshare.net/gpriebe/mary-wollstonecraft-4071116?from_search=5

Brief Biography

Eventually married her long time friend, radical William GodwinLost some credibility with radical friends Mother of Mary Shelley, author of FrankensteinDied in childbirth

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Concerning the RevolutionA true child of the Revolutionsaw a new age of reason and benevolence comingdesired to bridge the gap between:humanitys present circumstanceultimate idealized state of perfectionShe was a parishioner of minister Richard Price, who started the whole debateHe praised the French RevolutionBritish people also had the right to overthrow a bad kingWas personally mad at BurkeShe saw him as two-facedBurke defended the American RevolutionShe admired him at that timeAttacked Price when he supported the French Revolution

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Literary Traits and SignificanceHer ideas concerning the rights of women were truly revolutionaryThe first real feministDesired to help women not only for their own sake, but also for the sake of their children and husbandsElevated to the rank of modern heroine in the 1970sLived out" her own theories.Practiced what she preachedPowerPoint slide adapted from Gregory Priebe: http://www.slideshare.net/gpriebe/mary-wollstonecraft-4071116?from_search=5

Anna Letitia BarbauldJune 20, 1743March 9, 1825Prominent poet, essayist, and childrens authorA woman of letters who published in multiple genresBarbauld had a successful writing career at a time when female professional writers were rare

PowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation for Central Texas College: www.ctcd.edu/.../documents/FemaleRomanticWriters.ppt

Career as Teacher and WriterBarbauld was a noted teacher at the Palgrave Academy and an innovative children's writer; her primers provided a model for pedagogy for more than a century.[1] Her essays demonstrated that it was possible for a woman to be publicly engaged in politics, and other women authors emulated her.[2] Even more important, her poetry was foundational to the development of Romanticism in England.[3]Barbauld was also a literary critic, and her anthology of eighteenth-century British novels helped establish the canon as known today.PowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation for Central Texas College: www.ctcd.edu/.../documents/FemaleRomanticWriters.ppt

Literary Acclaim and FailureBarbauld's literary career ended abruptly in 1812 with the publication of her poem Eighteen Hundred and Eleven, which criticized Britain's participation in the Napoleonic Wars. Vicious reviews shocked Barbauld , and she published nothing else during her lifetime.[4] Her reputation was further damaged when many of the Romantic poets she had inspired in the heyday of the French Revolution turned against her in their later, more conservative, years. Barbauld was remembered only as a pedantic children's writer during the nineteenth century, and largely forgotten during the twentieth century, but the rise of feminist literary criticism in the 1980s renewed interest in her works and restored her place in literary history.[5]PowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation for Central Texas College: www.ctcd.edu/.../documents/FemaleRomanticWriters.ppt

Activity in PairsLook at each reading (begin with your favorites)Blake The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (pp. 148-158)Wordsworth The Prelude from Book Tenth. Residence in France and French Revolution (pp. 391-395) Shelley To Wordsworth (p. 752) and England in 1819 (p. 790)Wollstonecraft A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: Dedication to M. Talleyrand-Perigord and Introduction (pp. 211-217)Barbauld The Rights of Woman (pp. 48-49)Highlight/note how the reading fits with the theme of Revolution, Freedom, and RightsWhat line or passage stands out to you as particularly fitting to that theme and how do you interpret/explain it?PowerPoint slide adapted from a presentation for Central Texas College: www.ctcd.edu/.../documents/FemaleRomanticWriters.ppt

Who is a poet and for whom should a poet write?Write your answer on a piece of paper.

Turnitin.com Assignment

George Gordon, Lord ByronBiography

John KeatsIntroduction

Any Questions?

HomeworkReadings listed on syllabus:Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) (pp. 292-304)Byron Don Juan (pp. 673-674, canto 1-7) (feel free, of course, to continue reading if you like!)Watch introduction to Don Juan to help you make sense of the entire epic because we will only read a miniscule partBlake Songs of Innocence: Introduction (pp. 118-119), The Lamb (p. 120), The Chimney Sweeper (p. 121-122), Holy Thursday (pp. 122-123) and Songs of Experience: Introduction (p. 125), Holy Thursday (p. 127), The Chimney Sweeper (p. 128), The Tyger (pp. 129-130)Shelley To a Sky-Lark (pp. 834-836) and from A Defence of Poetry (pp. 856-869)Keats Ode to a Nightingale (pp. 927-929), Ode on a Grecian Urn (pp. 930-931), and Ode on Melancholy (pp. 931-933)Choose the reading you would most like to discuss and create three discussion questionsTurnitin assignment

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