EL 102
EL102 is the second of two courses designed as a general introduction to English Literature and is a survey from the Restoration Period to the present, covering the Augustan Age, the Romantics, the Age of Victoria and the 20th Century. The course is offered in the form of introductory lectures for each literary period followed by the reading and discussion of individual texts.
Course information
Timelines (NEW: 20th Century & Modernism)
Samuel Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads, Kubla Khan (1),
Kubla Khan (2), Kubla Khan (3), Kubla Khan (4)
William Wordsworth: Composed upon Westminster Bridge,
Lord Byron, "Stanzas for Music" Imagery: Spire & Ivy
The Victorian Period
Alfred Lord Tennyson: Biography
Robert Browning: My Last Duchess
Rudyard Kipling: White Man's Burden (1899)
The 20th Century
Thomas Hardy (1840-1928): Bio & Wessex
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) (Radio) Poetry Reading, Biography
T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Reading "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
Stevie Smith (1902-1970) Poems & Not Waving But Drowning (NEW)
W. H. Auden (1907-1973) Musee des Beaux Arts (NEW)
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) Do No Go Gentle (NEW)
Philip Larkin (1922-1985) An Arundel Tomb (NEW)