Graduate School of Humanities Department of Languages and Literature Western Literature Field
English Linguistics & Literature Speciality
(Credit 2)

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British Culture (Seminar IV)
British Culture (Seminar IV)
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Visiting Associate Professor Iain TWIDDY
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2025 FallTerm
weekly Thu4
Ito Classroom
EȖ (English, English)
Course Overview An Introduction to Romantic Poetry

On this course we shall be reading a selection of English Romantic poetry, by poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley and George Gordon, Lord Byron. We shall read and discuss one or two poems each week. All members of the class will be expected to have read the poem/s, and to contribute to class discussion. We shall discuss the literary, biographical and historical context of the poems, and by the end of the course, students will have an understanding of the prominent themes of English Romanticism, including liberty, independence, and the vitality of nature.
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