| Sep 5 | Introduction
Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover”
Browning, “My Last Duchess” | |
| Sep 12 | Browning, “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
Browning, “The Laboratory”
Browning, “The Bishop Orders His Tomb”
Browning, “Confessions” | |
| Sep 19 | Tennyson, “Ulysses”
Tennyson, “St Simeon Stylites”
Langbaum, “The Dramatic Monologue: Sympathy versus Judgment” | |
| Sep 26 | Browning, “Caliban upon Setebos”
Browning, “A Toccata of Galuppi’s”
Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi” | |
| Oct 3 | Tennyson, “Œnone”
Tennyson, “Tithonus”
Rader, “The Dramatic Monologue and Related Lyric Forms” | |
| Oct 17 | Browning, “Andrea del Sarto”
Mid-term test (at 8 p.m.) | |
| Oct 24 | Coleridge, “Frost at Midnight”
Morris, “The Defence of Guenevere”
Arnold, “Dover Beach” | |
| Oct 31 | Swinburne, “The Garden of Proserpine”
Rossetti, “Jenny”
Webster, “Circe” | |
| Nov 7 | Webster, “The Happiest Girl in the World”
Webster, “A Castaway”
Webster, “A Painter” | |
| Nov 14 | Levy, “A Minor Poet”
Mew, “Madeleine in Church”
Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” | |
| Nov 21 | Ai, “Interview with a Policeman”
Ai, “False Witness”
Duffy, “Circe”
Duffy, “Salome” | term essay due |
| Nov 28 | Petersen, “Salsa Madre”
Review | |