Romantic Lyric poetry: Wordsworth and Keats

This course will examine selected poems from two of the most important collections of Romantic verse, Wordsworth's innovative Lyrical Ballads (1798 and 1800), and Keats's Poems (1820). We will focus on Wordsworth's meditative and narrative poems, on Keats's odes and their different thinking about the nature of poetry as revealed in prefaces and letters.