Poetry/Romantic poetry

Content summary

This course covers the reading of both British and American Romantic Poetry and will include essays on assigned writers or poems.

This page is still being updated, please be patient. Soon, I will add readings and links under poets names and possibly more poets. Feel free to suggest!

Questions?

Unit materials

• Study guide:

Texts

• Wikipedia article on Romanticism

Poets

British:

• William Wordsworth
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• William Blake
• George Gordon, Lord Byron
• Percy Bysshe Shelley
• John Keats

American:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Walt Whitman