ENGLISH 250 - English Romantic Poets

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Hobart William Smith Colleges

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This course is a comprehensive look at Romanticism and its proponents, its aesthetic context and the charged political environment in which it developed and thrived. The poets of this movement saw themselves thinkers and as agents of agents of important change in the world. The poems they wrote were like the words of a magic spell, meant to unleash the power of imagination and speak new political and intellectual realities into being. In addition to reading the works of well known Romantics, such as Wordsworth and Byron, the course examines the provocative writings of abolitionists, visionaries, and poets whose support of Revolution in France made them distrusted at home in England. We will also explore the works of lesser known poets and delve into the ideas of influential thinkers such as Edmund Burke, whose views on the sublime, as well as his Reflexions on the Revolution in France influenced generations of English writers. His lively debate in print with Thomas Paine and Mary Wollstonecraft, who both wrote replies to Burke helped launch a national debate about the significance of the French Revolution beyond politics. ( Offered every three years)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

WWW.HWS.EDU

Phone Number:

(315) 781-3000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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