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Heaven in a Wild Flower: The British Romantic Poets by Adam Potkay

Heaven in a Wild Flower: The British Romantic Poets

by Adam Potkay


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Professor Adam Potkay brings his renowned expertise on the Romantic era to bear on the period’s principal poets. Providing detailed analysis of the lives and works of literary luminaries such as Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and John Keats, Professor Potkay examines the nature of Romantic poetry and provides insight on the stylistic flourishes and themes of this remarkable period.


Lecture 1 What Is Romanticism?


Lecture 2 Folk Culture, the Ballad Tradition, and Robert Burns


Lecture 3 Wordsworth and Coleridge: Ballads of Nature and the Supernatural


Lecture 4 Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads 1798 and 1800: Rustic Life and the Questionable Pleasures of Nature


Lecture 5 The Descriptive-Meditative Poem and the Divine in Nature


Lecture 6 Wordsworth and the Invention of Childhood


Lecture 7 Blake and Infantine Innocence


Lecture 8 Blake and Satanic Energy


Lecture 9 The Byronic Hero


Lecture 10 Byron and Shelley: Darkness and Light


Lecture 11 Gothic Horrors: Coleridge’s “Christabel” and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus


Lecture 12 Keats’s (Mock-)Gothic Romances


Lecture 13 Keats’s Great Odes


Lecture 14 Byron’s Comic Epic: “Don Juan”


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