| Jan 11 | Introduction
Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover”
Browning, “My Last Duchess” | |
| Jan 18 | Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
Browning, “The Laboratory”
Browning, “The Bishop Orders his Tomb”
Browning, “Caliban upon Setebos”
Browning, “Confessions”
• Sessions, Ina Beth. “The Dramatic Monologue.” PMLA 62.2 (June 1947): 503-16. online access: <www.jstor.org/stable/459275> | presenter: Andrew
resp: Leah |
| Jan 25 | Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi”
Browning, “A Toccata of Galuppi’s”
Browning, “Master Hugues of Saxe-Gotha”
Browning, “Andrea del Sarto”
• Rader, Ralph W. “The Dramatic Monologue and Related Lyric Forms.” Critical Inquiry 3.1 (Autumn 1976): 131-51. online access: <www.jstor.org/stable/1342876> | |
| Feb 1 | Tennyson, “Ulysses”
Tennyson, “Œnone”
Tennyson, “St Simeon Stylites”
Tennyson, “Tithonus”
Tennyson, “Rizpah”
• Rader, Ralph W. “Notes on Some Structural Varieties and Variations in Dramatic ‘I’ Poems and Their Theoretical Implications.” Victorian Poetry 22.2 (1984): 103-20. online access: <www.jstor.org/stable/40002960> | leader: Ryan
presenter: Brandon
resp: Katelyn |
| Feb 8 | Coleridge, “The Nightingale”
Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”
Coleridge, “This Lime Tree Bower My Prison”
Wordsworth, “Lines, Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
Clare, “The Lament of Swordy Well”
• Tucker, Herbert F. “Dramatic Monologue and the Overhearing of Lyric.” Lyric Poetry: Beyond New Criticism. Ed. Chaviva Hosek and Patricia Parker. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985. 226-43. | leader: Taylor
presenter: Leah
resp: Andrew |
| Feb 15 | Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere”
Swinburne, “Hymn to Proserpine”
Swinburne, “The Garden of Proserpine”
Arnold, “Dover Beach”
Rossetti, “Jenny”
• Langbaum, Robert. “The Dramatic Monologue: Sympathy versus Judgment.” The Poetry of Experience: The Dramatic Monologue in Modern Literary Tradition. 1957. Norton, 1963. 75-108. | leader: Janelle
presenter: Taylor
resp: Ryan |
| Mar 1 | Hemans, “Properzia Rossi”
Barrett Browning, “The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”
Levy, “Xantippe”
Levy, “A Minor Poet”
Levy, “Magdalen”
• Byron, Glennis. “Rethinking the Dramatic Monologue: Victorian Women Poets and Social Critique.” Victorian Women Poets. Ed. Alison Chapman. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003. 79-98. | presenter: Janelle
resp: Brandon |
| Mar 8 | Webster, “Medea in Athens”
Webster, “Circe”
Webster, “The Happiest Girl in the World”
Webster, “A Castaway”
Webster, “A Painter”
• Ingersoll, Earl G. “Considerations of Gender in the Dramatic Monologue.” The Modern Language Review 86.3 (July 1991): 545-52. online access: <www.jstor.org/stable/3731002> | leader: Brandon |
| Mar 15 | La Traviata, “È strano! è strano! / Ah, fors’è lui che l’anima”
Il Trovatore, “Soli or siamo / Condotta ell’era in ceppi”
Der Fliegende Holländer, “Johohohe! Johohohe! Johohohe! Johohe!”
Eugene Onegin, “Puskai pogibnu ya”
Elektra, “Allein! Weh, ganz allein”
• Culler, A. Dwight. “Monodrama and the Dramatic Monologue.” PMLA 90.3 (May 1975): 366-85. online access: <www.jstor.org/stable/461625> | leader: Andrew
presenter: Ryan
resp: Janelle |
| Mar 22 | Mew, “The Farmer’s Bride”
Mew, “Madeleine in Church”
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
Eliot, “Portrait of a Lady”
Howard, “1915: A Pre-Raphaelite Ending”
• Shaw, W. David. “Lyric Displacement in the Victorian Monologue: Naturalizing the Vocative.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 52.3 (Dec 1997): 302-25. online access: <www.jstor.org/stable/2933997> | leader: Leah
presenter: Katelyn
resp: Taylor |
| Apr 5 | Ai, “The Kid”
Ai, “False Witness”
Ai, “Blood in the Water”
Duffy, “Psychopath”
Duffy, “Circe”
Duffy, “Frau Freud”
Duffy, “Salome” | leader: Katelyn |
| Apr 9 | Mansfield, “The Lady’s Maid”
Mansfield, “The Canary”
Petersen, “Salsa Madre” | |