| Jan 8 | Introduction | |
| Jan 10 | Blake, from Songs of Innocence (1789) | |
| Jan 15 | Blake, “Proverbs of Hell” (1793)
Blake, from Songs of Experience (1794) | |
| Jan 17 | Wollstonecraft, from A Vindication of the Rights of Men (1790)
Barbauld, “Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq., on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade” (1791)
Barbauld, “On the Expected General Rising of the French Nation in 1792” (1825; written c. 1792)
Barbauld, “The Rights of Woman” (1825; written 1793) | |
| Jan 22 | Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance (1790) | |
| Jan 24 | Radcliffe, A Sicilian Romance (1790) | |
| Jan 29 | Wordsworth, “The Thorn” (1798)
Wordsworth, “Expostulation and Reply” (1798)
Wordsworth, “The Tables Turned” (1798) | |
| Jan 31 | Wordsworth, “Preface” to Lyrical Ballads (1800)
Wordsworth, “London, 1802” (1807)
Wordsworth, from The Prelude (1805) | |
| Feb 5 | Wordsworth, “Lines ... Tintern Abbey” (1798)
Wordsworth, “The Solitary Reaper” (1807) | |
| Feb 7 | Coleridge, “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798) | |
| Feb 12 | Coleridge, “This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison” (1800)
Coleridge, “The Eolian Harp” (1828) | |
| Feb 14 | Mid-term test | |
| Feb 26 | Coleridge, “Dejection, an Ode” (1802)
Wordsworth, “Ode [Intimations of Immortality]” (1807) | short essay |
| Feb 28 | Shelley, “A Defence of Poetry” (1821; 1840) | |
| Mar 5 | Shelley, “Mutability” (1816)
Shelley, “Mont Blanc” (1817)
Shelley, “Ozymandias” (1818) | |
| Mar 7 | Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind” (1820)
Shelley, “To a Skylark” (1820) | |
| Mar 12 | Clare, “The Lament of Swordy Well” (1935; written 1821-24)
Byron, “She Walks in Beauty” (1815)
Byron, “The Destruction of Sennacherib” (1815) | |
| Mar 14 | Byron, “The Prisoner of Chillon” (1816)
Byron, “Darkness” (1816)
Byron, “Prometheus” (1816) | |
| Mar 19 | Austen, Persuasion (1818) | |
| Mar 21 | Austen, Persuasion (1818) | |
| Mar 26 | Keats, “On Seeing the Elgin Marbles” (1817)
Keats, “Bright star” (1838; written 1819)
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1820) | term essay |
| Mar 28 | Keats, “Ode to a Nightingale” (1820)
Keats, “To Autumn” (1820)
Keats, “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (1848; written 1819) | |
| Apr 2 | Landon, “Lines of Life” (1829)
Landon, “The Factory” (1835) | |
| Apr 4 | Review | |