Romantic & Victorian Poetry
Level: BS 6th
Course Code: ELL301 Course Description: This course analyzes representative examples of British poetry of the
nineteenth century, that is, from the French Revolution to the first
stirrings of modernism in the early 1900s. It comprises the poetry of two
eras which came one after each other, namely Romantic and Victorian
age. The first half of this module extends from the mid-1770s to the
1830s, a period marked by what Wordsworth referred to as those ‘great
national events’ which were ‘almost daily taking place’: the American and
French revolutions, the Napoleonic wars, imperial expansion,
industrialization, and the growth of the political reform movement. The
production and consumption of books took on a heightened political
significance in these decades and this selection includes selection from
the ‘big six’ Romantics (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, P.B.
Shelley, Byron). The second half of this course includes the poetry of the
poets who are called as ‘cunning te…