Welcome to English 368, Literature of the Romantic Period.  Note that this course concerns only those writers we call the English Romantics, a group which includes some of the most colorful characters ever to have written.  To check your preliminary knowledge of biographical trivia, take the following quiz. 

Announcement for October 22:  Jane Campion's new film about John Keats, is showing at the Athena Theater in Athens.  Showtimes and a trailer here.

Announcement for October 21:  Your essay assignment is posted on the handouts page and has been e-mailed to you.

Announcement for October 4:  Here is Wordsworth's Prospectus to the Recluse.  In addition, read the following selections from The Prelude: Book Second and the selections in the anthology from Books Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth.

Quiz:

1.  Who wrote perhaps the first English science fiction novel while a pregnant, unwed teenager?

2.  What opium addict became a famous theologian and conservative political theorist?

3.  Who had visions of the prophet Elijah and the ghost of a flea?

4.  What international "bad boy" had women all over Europe throwing themselves at him and had a type of literary hero named after him?

5.  Whose feminist tract so horrified the novelist Horace Walpole that he called her "a hyena in petticoats"?

The early 19th century was a time of increasing literacy in Great Britain, with more and more people earning money as writers.  Unfortunately, we will not be able to read more than a handful of them due to time limitations.  Among the people we will meet are the following:

Jane Austen                                   

William Blake                           

Samuel Taylor Coleridge           

George Gordon, Lord Byron   

Percy Bysshe Shelley                

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley    

John Keats                                       

Mary Robinson 

 William Wordsworth                                        

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