The Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets (Audiobook) - ISBN:1565852966

The Lives and Works of the English Romantic Poets (Audiobook)

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The verse of the English Romantic poets is as daunting in its scope and complexity as it is dazzling in its technique and beautiful in its language. Now, Professor Willard Spiegelman illuminates masterpieces of English literature by poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron, as well as the women Romantic poets.
As with his first course, How to Read and Understand Poetry, his emphasis is on technique, on how a poem accomplishes its objectives, on "how it means." To this end, he meticulously dissects the poems, directing you to points of interest that deserve close observation.
[b]What is Romanticism?[/b]
A much-abused term, Romanticism has at times been shorthand for "wild," "irregular," "gothic," and "modern." It has been associated with: love of the exotic; revolt against reason; vindication and defense of the individual; liberation of the unconscious; reaction against science; worship of the emotions; return to nature and so on.
Not only are these generalizations not considered particularly helpful, but the Romantic poets never even identified themselves as "Romantic."
What we can say is that some common concerns among the poets emerge:
[list][*]They wrote about man's relationship to nature, and they regard nature and the universe as an active, dynamic thing. There is, though, a counter-desire to escape from nature and to deny man's connection to it.
[*]There is a concern with society and politics, and an idealistic notion that humanity can transcend its enslaving traditions.
[*]The Romantics were conscious of consciousness itself—of the power of the human mind and its active faculties as a force for self-glorification and a seed of self-destruction.
[/list]These lectures focus on the poems themselves, and they also tell the story of six great poetic souls and the impact of their personae upon their age.
[hide=Course Lecture Titles][list][*]1. Romantic Beginnings
[*]2. Wordsworth and the Lyrical Ballads
[*]3. Life and Death, Past and Present
[*]4. Epic Ambitions and Autobiography
[*]5. Spots of Time and Poetic Growth
[*]6. Coleridge and the Art of Conversation
[*]7. Hell to Heaven via Purgatory
[*]8. Rivals and Friends
[*]9. William Blake—Eccentric Genius
[*]10. From Innocence to Experience
[*]11. Blake's Prophetic Books
[*]12. Women Romantic Poets
[*]13. "Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know"
[*]14. The Byronic Hero
[*]15. Don Juan—A Comic Masterpiece
[*]16. Shelley and Romantic Lyricism
[*]17. Shelley's Figures of Thought
[*]18. Shelley and History
[*]19. Shelley and Love
[*]20. Keats and the Poetry of Aspiration
[*]21. Keats and Ambition
[*]22. Keats and Eros
[*]23. Process, Ripeness, Fulfillment
[*]24. The Persistence of Romanticism
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