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

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

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

poems “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174796 “Frost at Midnight”: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173242 “Dejection: An Ode”: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173229

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?