Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: VICTORIAN POETRY AND PROSE: THE LONG VICTORIAN POEM ***** While nineteenth-century aesthetics held the lyric to be the highest and purest form of poetic expression, most major Victorian poets wrote one or more narrative poems that competed with the epic and the novel in ambition and scope. This seminar will read long poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Matthew Arnold, George Meredith, and Gerard Manley Hopkins. It will also attempt to place the poems within Victorian aesthetic, philosophical, religious, and historical contexts. ***** INSTRUCTOR: Patten, Robert