F15M Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads (Hybrid/In-Person)
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[NEW COURSE] These 1798 “nature poems,” so simple on the literal level, revolutionized the form and theory behind poetry and are still the template for poetry to this day. We’ll read a selection of Wordsworth’s poems, including Tintern Abbey, and finish with Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Discussion, Lecture, Reading (No class November 25)
- Required Text: Wordsworth and Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1802, Oxford World Classics, ISBN 9780199601967
Donna Richardson
Donna Richardson is professor emerita at St. Mary's College of Maryland where she taught literature for 33 years. Her specialties include poetry (especially Romantics), mythology in Greek literature, and Tolstoy.