I: COURSE INTRODUCTION
--Instructor: Prof. Julia Saville
 TAs: --Norah Dick
--Carrie Dickison
--Terra Walston Joseph
--Esther Nadolski

--Syllabus and About English 210
--Shape of Course:
 The Romantic Period (1785-1830)
 The Victorian Age (1830-1901)
 The Twentieth Century

II: DEFINING ROMANTICISM
1. Resisting tradition; revolutionary
2. Concern with the everyday and common humanity
3. Emphasis on the spiritual, intuitive, and emotional rather than rational
4. Anti-theatrical prejudice; favors images of nature to reflect the workings of the human consciousness
5. Emphasis on Individualism to balance democratization
6. Poet as bard or prophet; solitary, reclusive

III: WILLIAM WORDSWORTH (1770-1850)
The First Generation and one of the Lake Poets
--Wordsworth (lived at Dove Cottage, at Grasmere; see illustration on C5 in Norton)
--Samuel Taylor Coleridge
[--Robert Southey]

"We Are Seven" (p. 248/224) from Lyrical Ballads (1798)
The encounter of two different kinds of knowledge
Question: If both lyric speakers in this poem are RIGHT,
do you feel inclined to appreciate one version of "the truth" more than the other?

"A slumber did my spirit seal" (p. 276/254)
--One of the "Lucy" poems
--Life and Death again
--The Child again
--Simple form again
--Symmetry of stanzas / Inversions of concepts