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The required readings for the course are presented in the table below.



Required Texts


Amazon logo Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems. New York, NY: Dover, 1992. ISBN: 0486272664.

Amazon logo Dickens, Charles. Hard Times. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192833677.

Amazon logo Keats, John. Complete Poems. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1982. ISBN: 5553068290.

Amazon logo Scarry, Elaine. On Beauty and Being Just. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. ISBN: 0691089590.

Amazon logo Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0192834878.

Amazon logo Wordsworth, William and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Lyrical Ballads. New York, NY: Routledge, 2005. ISBN: 041535529X.



Readings by Class Session



LEC #TOPICSREADINGS
1Introduction
2Elaine ScarryScarry, Elaine. On Beauty and Being Just.
3Elaine Scarry (cont.)Scarry, Elaine. On Beauty and Being Just.
4PlatoHamilton, Edith, and Huntington Cairns, eds. "Ion (complete)." The Collected Dialogues of Plato. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Bollingen series, 1961, pp. 216-228.

———. "The Republic, Book VII and X." The Collected Dialogues of Plato. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Bollingen series, 1961, pp. 747-753 and 822-833.

———. "Phaedrus." The Collected Dialogues of Plato. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Bollingen series, 1961, pp. 747-753 and 491-503.

———. "Symposium." The Collected Dialogues of Plato. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, Bollingen series, 1961, pp. 747-753 and 553-563.
5David HumeAmazon logo Hume, David. "Of the Standard of Taste." In Selected Essays. Edited by Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 133-154. ISBN: 0192836218.

Amazon logo ———. "Of Refinement in the Arts." In Selected Essays. Edited by Stephen Copley and Andrew Edgar. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996, pp. 167-77. ISBN: 0192836218.
6Immanuel KantAmazon logo Kant, Immanuel. Critique of Judgment. Translated by J. H. Bernard. New York, NY: Hafner, 1951, pp. 25-29, 37-39, 45-51, 62-65, and 196-200 (Introduction, section vii; Book 1, sections 1-2, 6-8, 15, 59). ISBN: 0028475003.
7Friedrich SchillerAmazon logo Schiller, Friedrich. Essays. Edited by Walter Hinderer and Daniel O. Dahlstrom. New York, NY: Continuum, 1993, pp. 86-90, 92-95, 127-139, and 144-165 (Letters 1-2, 4, 15-18, 20-25). ISBN: 0826407137.
8William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor ColeridgeWordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Preface." In Lyrical Ballads.
9William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Simon Lee," "The Thorn," "Goody Blake and Harry Gill," "We are Seven," "The Idiot Boy," and "The Old Cumberland Beggar." In Lyrical Ballads.
10William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Michael," and "Hart-Leap Well." In Lyrical Ballads.

Coleridge. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."
11William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)Wordsworth, William, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Tintern Abbey," and "Lines Written in Early Spring." In Lyrical Ballads.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Frost at Midnight." In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems.
12Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "Dejection: An Ode," and "Kubla Khan." In The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems.
13John KeatsKeats, John. "To one who has been too long in city pent," "To my brother George," "How many bards gild the lapses of time," "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "Addressed to Haydon," "Addressed to the Same," "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again," and "When I have fears that I may cease to be." In Complete Poems.
14John Keats (cont.)Keats, John. "Sleep and Poetry," and "To My Brother George." In Complete Poems.
15John Keats and Walter BenjaminKeats, John. "Lamia." In Complete Poems.

Amazon logo Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations. Edited by Hannah Arendt. Translated by Harry Zohn. New York, NY: Schocken, 1968, pp. 217-243. ISBN: 0805202412.
16John Keats and Walter Benajmin (cont.)

Theodor Adorno
Keats, John. "Ode to Psyche," "Ode to a Nightingale," and "Ode to Indolence." In Complete Poems.

Amazon logo Adorno, Theodor, and Walter Benajmin. "Lyric Poetry and Society." In The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940. Edited by Henri Lonitz. Translated by Nicholas Walker. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999, pp. 127-133. ISBN: 0674154274.

Amazon logo Adorno, Theodor. Notes to Literature. Vol. 1. Edited by Rolf Tiedemann. Translated by Shierry Weber Nicolson. New York, NY: Columbia, 1991, pp. 37-54. ISBN: 0231063326.
17Thomas Love Peacock and P. B. ShelleyAmazon logo Peacock, Thomas Love. "The Four Ages of Poetry."  In Prose of the British Romantic Movement.  Edited by John R. Nabholtz.  New York, NY: Macmillan, 1974, pp. 655-661.  ISBN: 0023858400.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe. "Defence of Poetry," and "Ode to the West Wind."
18Mary ShelleyShelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Vols. 1-2.
19Mary Shelley (cont.)Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. Vol. 3.
20Lord Byron and George GordonAmazon logo Byron, Lord, and George Gordon. "Cantos 1-2." In The Complete Poetical Works, vol. V: Don Juan . Edited by Jerome McGann. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 3-157. ISBN: 019812757X.
21Lord Byron and George Gordon (cont.)Amazon logo Byron, Lord, and George Gordon. "Cantos 10-11." In The Complete Poetical Works, vol. V: Don Juan. Edited by Jerome McGann. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. 437-492. ISBN: 019812757X.
22Charles DickensDickens, Charles. "Book 1." In Hard Times.
23Charles Dickens (cont.)

Martha Nussbaum
Dickens, Charles. "Books 2-3." In Hard Times.

Amazon logo Nussbaum, Martha. Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life. Boston, MA: Beacon, 1995, pp. 1-52. ISBN: 0807041084.
24Matthew Arnold and Walter PaterAmazon logo Arnold, Matthew. Culture and Anarchy. Edited by Samuel Lipman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994, pp. 28-66. ISBN: 0300058675.

Amazon logo Pater, Walter. Studies in the History of the Renaissance. Edited by Adam Phillips. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1986, pp. xxix-xxxiii, and 150-3. ISBN: 019281737X.
25Oscar WildeAmazon logo Wilde, Oscar. The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose. Edited by Linda Dowling. New York, NY: Penguin, 2001, pp. 105-6, 122-3, and 127-160. ISBN: 0140433872.
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