Romantic Poetry
7 courses, 48 lectures6:51:10
English Literature
Romanticism
In this twelve-part course, Dr Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge) explores Romanticism, the literary movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the eighteenth century. In the first module, we think about the...
12 lectures
1:46:25
Dr Ross Wilson
Cambridge University
English Literature
Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience
In this course, Dr Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge) explores William Blake’s ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’. We begin in the first module by thinking about the historical, political and cultural context in which...
6 lectures
0:49:16
Dr Ross Wilson
Cambridge University
English Literature
The Poetry of William Wordsworth
In this course, Professor Tom Mole (University of Edinburgh) explores the poetry of the great Romantic poet, William Wordsworth. In the first module, we look at Wordsworth's Preface to the Lyrical Ballads, in which he outlines...
5 lectures
0:45:41
Dr Tom Mole
Edinburgh University
English Literature
The Poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In this course, we think about the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, focusing in particular in the literary and historical background of this poems of the 1790s. In the first half of the course, we think about Coleridge’s...
6 lectures
0:45:48
Prof. Seamus Perry
Oxford University
English Literature
The Poetry of Lord Byron
In this course, Professor Sir Drummond Bone (University of Oxford) discusses the life and poetry of Lord Byron. After a brief introduction to the man himself—once famously described as “mad, bad, and dangerous to know”—we then...
7 lectures
0:34:09
Prof. Sir Drummond Bone
Oxford University
English Literature
The Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
In this course, Dr Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge) explores the poetry of the great Romantic poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley. We begin in the first module by providing a brief overview of Shelley's short life and career with...
6 lectures
1:08:11
Dr Ross Wilson
Cambridge University
English Literature
The Poetry of John Keats
In this course, Dr Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge) explores the poetry of John Keats. In the first two modules, we think of Keats in terms of first reader, then writer, thinking about his engagement with both the texts of...
6 lectures
1:01:40
Dr Ross Wilson
Cambridge University