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Victorian Poetry 26: Last class: Housman after a touch of Yeats and a little Michael Field

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Victorian Poetry 25: Jeff Nunokawa visits to discuss Wilde’s ”Ballad of Reading Gaol”

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Victorian Poetry 24: The Rhymers’ Club: Fin de siècle poetry, towards Wilde and Yeats

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Victorian Poetry 23: Amy Levy, Robert Bridges and... Kipling

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Victorian Poetry 22: A bit more Stevenson, George R. Sims, and the amazing Alice Meynell

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Victorian Poetry 21: Later Victorian Forms: Stevenson, Guggenberger, MacDonald

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Victorian Poetry 20: George Eliot, Hardy, Hopkins

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Victorian Poetry 19: Swinburne and Hopkins

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Victorian Poetry 18: A touch of Fitzgerald and Hopkins; more on Meredith and Swinburne

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Victorian Poetry 17: Some Meredith, then we begin The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam

11

Victorian Poetry 16: A little Patmore, then the rest of Goblin Market

12

Victorian Poetry 15: D.G. and C. Rossetti

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Victorian Poetry 14: D.G. Rossetti and pre-Raphealitism

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Victorian Poetry 13: Concluding class on Clough’s ”Amours de Voyage”

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Victorian Poetry 12: Mainly Clough plus some narrative theory

16

Victorian Poetry 11: ”Long ago he was one of the singers” (Edward Lear) plus a little Clare

17

Victorian Poetry 10: ”The Hunting of the Snark” and some Clare

18

Victorian Poetry 9: ” ’Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came’ ”

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Victorian Poetry 8: More on R. Browning’s ”Development” and then mainly his”Thamuris Marching”

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Victorian Poetry 7: more on Aurora Leigh and then some Robert Browning

21

Victorian Poetry 6: mainly Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Victorian Poetry 5: E. Brontë, dialect, the amazing William Barnes

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Victorian Poetry 4: Some filiations (Barnes, Hardy, Tennyson, Fitzgerald, &c.); then ”TITHONUS”

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Victorian Poetry 3: Tennyson’s technique, Tennyson’s despair

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Victorian Poetry 2: The weirdness of Tennyson

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Victorian Poetry 1 -- Intro with poems by R. Browning, Beddoes, Patmore, Meynell, C. Rossetti

27

Poetry Episode 24: Last class, mainly on finishing Elisa Gonzalez’s ”Notes Toward an Elegy”

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Poetry course 23: kind of whacky but more on Bishop and then Elisa Gonzalez

29

Poetry: A Basic Course 22: Tennyson, Rich, Agha Shahid Ali, Hemans, Bishop

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Poetry A Basic Course episode 21: Beauty and truth in Dickinson and Keats

31

Poetry Episode 20: Chiefly ”The Emperor of Ice Cream”

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Poetry a basic course episode 19: Some villanelles, mainly

33

Poetry Episode 18 Mont Blanc Concluded

34

Poetry Class Episode 17: Mont Blanc part 2

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Poetry episode 16: More on metaphor, especially Shelley’s Mont Blanc: part 1 of a discussion of that poem

36

Class 15: More sonnets, and more on the relation of sonnet to metaphor

37

Episode 14 -- some sonnets

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Poetry A Basic Course Episode 13 More Pope, Milton, Wyatt

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Episode 12: Some Paradise Lost, some Pope, some more on meter, prime numbers

40

More on the theology of Paradise Lost (Episode 11)

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A day that turned out to be an intro to Paradise Lost (Episode 10)

42

Different sorts of stresses (Episode 9)

43

What all poems are always about; ”We are Seven” (Episode 8)

44

More on lines

45

What makes a line?

46

Rhyme. And dialogue -- alternation and conflict in ballads

47

Rhyme: Making the Arbitrary Make Sense

48

More on rhyme and meter

49

some more on ”b o d y” and then on Alice Notley’s ”The Comfort”

50

First episode of Poetry: A Basic Course:James Merrill’s

51

Advanced Shakespeare 28, Friday May 1 2020--LAST CLASS. Dolabella and Cleopatra's dream

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Advanced Shakespeare 27 April 30 2020 -- The Death of Antony

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Advanced Shakespeare 26, Tuesday April 28 2020: Act IV and Antony's Extravagance

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Advanced Shakespeare 25, Friday April 24, 2020: Act III concluded: Knowing Antony and knowing Cleoipatra

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Advanced Shakespeare 24, Tuesday April 21, 2020: Act III continued: Antony profuse wastefulness

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Advanced Shakespeare 23 Friday April 17 2020 -- dramatic perspectives

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Bonus aria on Wittgenstein

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Advanced Shakespeare 22 Tuesday 4/14/20 Leaders and advisors and news management

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Advanced Shakespeare 21 Friday 4/3/2020 Messengers

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Advanced Shakespeare 20 Tuesday 3-31-20 She did make defect perfection (Continuing Act II)

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Advanced Shakespeare 19 Friday 3-27-20 Act I concluded

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Advanced Shakespeare 18 Friday 3-20-20 Antony and Cleopatra Act I continued

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Advanced Shakespeare 17. Antony and Cleopatra 2.1: the soothsayer and Cleopatra's women

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Advanced Shakespeare 16 Being Mark Antony

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Advanced Shakespeare 15, 3-10-20 Ages of the characters -- Shakespeare's temporal preferences

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Advanced Shakespeare 14 3/6/2020 Opening of Antony and Cleopatra

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Advanced Shakespeare 13 - March 3, 2020 Last class on Macbeth: sonnets and then "My way of life is fallen...."

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Advanced Shakespeare 12 Feb 28 2020 Poetic form and Yes Fear ShakeFear

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Advanced Shakespeare 11 2/25/20 Interiorizing time

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Advanced Shakespeare 10 Class of 2/14/20

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Advanced Shakespeare 9 2/11/20: Remorse and repentance

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Advanced Shakespeare 8 2/7/20 Being a character and daemonization

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Advanced Shakespeare 7 2/4/20 Friendship and love in Shakespeare

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Advanced Shakespeare 6 1/31/20 -- witches and soothsayers and messengers o my

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Advanced Shakespeare 5 1/28/20 De Quincey Knocking at the Gate

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Advanced Shakespeare 4 Friday 1/24/19 -- knocking at the gate, &c

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Advanced Shakespeare 3 1/21/20: Macbeth, conflict, Coleridge on puns

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Advanced Shakespeare 2 1/17/20

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Advanced Shakespeare Episode 1 1/14/20

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Early Romantics XXVII 5-10-19 LONG Last class on Coleridge

81

Early Romantics XXVI Climbing Mt. Snowdon in Prelude XIII

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Imagining Money XXXVII Wed 5-1-19 Last class: managing desire

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Early Romantics XXV 4-29-19 -- The Prelude and Wordsworth in general

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Imagining Money XXXVI Mon 4-29-19 Preference, loss aversion, anxiety

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Imagining Money XXXV Thurs 4-18-19 maguffins and the management of longing

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Early Romantics XXIV Wednesday 4-17-19

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Imagining Money XXXIV Wed 4-17-19 Stories of gambling

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Early Romantics XXIII Monday 4-15-19 Home and homelessness

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Imagining Money XXXIII Mon 4-15-19 How endings shape desires

90

Imagining Money XXXII Loss aversion - Thaler

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Early Romantics XXII Wednesday 4-10-19 Intimations Ode, Prelude, Nature

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Imagining Money XXXI -- poker, money, chips, macguffins, loss aversion

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Early Romantics XXI Monday 4-8-19 More Intimations Ode

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Imagining Money XXX Mon 4-9-19 MacGuffins

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Imagining Money XXIX Hyperbolic Discounting

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Early Romantics XX Wed 4-3-19

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Imagining Money XXVIII Wed 4-3-19 Hyperbolic Discounting and such

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Early Romantics XIX Monday 4-1-19 Bouncing around the Prelude

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Imagining Money XXVII Mon 4-1-19 Common Knowledge and poker

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Imagining Money XXVI Thursday 3-27-19 Mainly on cultural capital

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Early Romantics XVIII Wednesday 3-27-19 Henry Crabb Robinson on Blake on Wordsworth

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Imagining Money XXV Wed 3-27-19 Common knowledge and such

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Early Romantics XVII Mon 3-25-19 -- Intimations Ode 1-4 and opening of Prelude

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Imagining Money XXIV Monday 3-25-19 How heterogeneous values are like gifts

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Early Romantics XVI Wed 3-20-19 Mainly Lucy, mainly "A Slumber Did my Spirit Seal"

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Imagining Money XXIII Thursday 3-21-19

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Imagining Money XXII Wed 3-20-19 Prisoner's Dilemma

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Early Romantics XV Monday 3-18-19 How Wordsworth is like Milton is like Blake

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Imagining Money XXI Wed 3-13-19 Adam Smith on Beauty and Utility

110

Early Romantics XIV Wed 3-13-19 Mainly WW: "We Are Seven" with "Lines Written in Early Spring, and "Two April Mornings"

111

Early Romantics, XIII, Monday 3-11-19 Lyrical Ballads -- Goody Blake and Harry Gill

112

Imagining Money XX 3-11-19 Mandeville, Hume, Inflation

113

Imagining Money XIX Thursday 3-7-19 More Mandeville and value of honor and altruism

114

Early Romantics XII Wed 3-6-19 Blake's Milton with special guest

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Imagining Money XVIII Wed 3-6-19

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Imagining Money XVII Th Feb 28 2019 Mainly Mandeville

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Early Romantics XI Wed 2-27-19 A class on Orc, Urizen, and Los

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Imagning Money XVI Wed 2-27-19: More on the Gift

119

Early Romantics X Monday Feb 25 2019 Blake Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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Imagining Money XV Monday Feb 25 2019

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Imagining Money XIV Thursday 2-15-19 Mainly Merchant of Venice and the Bible

122

Early Romantics IX Wed 2-13-19: Book of Thel

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Imagining Money XIII Wednesday Feb 13 2019, mainly about usury

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Early Romantics VIII Monday Feb 11 2019 mainly on most of Thel

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Imagining Money XII Feb 10 2019 Kawabata, Exodus, Shakespeare

126

Early Romanticism VII -- more Blake

127

Imagining Money XI, Thursday 2-7-19 Game theory: Keynesian Beauty Contests, Stampedes and Panics

128

Imagining Money X Wednesday February 6 2019 -- Merchant of Venice and Ezra Pound

129

Romanticism VI 2-4-19 Blake's There is no Natural Religion, and some songs of Experience

130

Imagining Money IX Monday February 4, 2019

131

Imagining Money VIII Thursday January 31 -- Mostly Marx

132

Romanticism, Class V: Mainly on "All Religions Are One"

133

Imagining Money VII Wednesday Jan 30 2019

134

Romanticism Class IV: Songs of Innocence

135

Imagining Money VI 1-28-19

136

Imagining Money V Thursday Jan 24 2019 -- Midas and money

137

Romanticism, class III: Nurses Songs, Milton

138

Imagining Money IV Wednesday Jan 23 2019

139

Imagining Money III 1-22-19

140

English Romanticism: Blake, WW, STC second class 1-22-19

141

Imagining Money II 1-17-19

142

Imagining Money (Literature and Economics) 1-16-19

143

English Romanticism: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge 1/16/19

144

Soyinka - Death and the King's Horseman (1a-32 = last class)

145

Print the Legend: The Man Shot Liberty Valance -- 1a - class 31

146

O'Connor -- the Violent Bear it Away (1a-30)

147

29 -- A class on Waiting for Godot: Godot as MacGuffin

148

Second and last class on Invisible Man (1a, class 28)

149

27a A section that was really a lecture, mainly on Stevens and Whitman

150

27 - First real class on Invisible Man

151

26 Mainly Whitman, with some Dickinson, but a bit of Ellison - 1a

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25. Dickinson and a touch of Emerson - eng 1a

153

24. A kind of catchup day on James, Joyce, Woolf. Then Dickinson

154

Free Indirect Discourse (with some mention of Joyce's "The Dead") (1a-23)

155

22 First class on James's Aspern Papers (English 1a)

156

21. Second and last class on Jane Eyre

157

20. First of two classes on Jane Eyre (English 1a)

158

19. Shelley and Wordsworth in The Triumph of Life. Mont Blanc and the Sublime

159

Intro to Lit 18: Intimations Ode

160

Episode 17 of Intro to Lit -- Wordsworth, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Lear: How to like literature

161

16 -- Lyrical Ballads. Ballads. Lyric. (English 1a)

162

Intro (1a) class 15: How to write. More Blake -- The Chimney Sweeper

163

Pope and then Blake (14th episode of Intro to Lit)

164

Lit 1, episode 13: Rape of the Lock

165

Into to Lit, episode 12: Last class on Paradise Lost: The real unreality of our lives

166

Lit 1, part 11: Invocation to Book 7; Calliope and Orpheus; the Fall

167

Intro to Lit 10: Catching up on Milton

168

Milton on free will; ordering of the story; invocation and voice; light

169

Intro to Lit 8: Shelley and Milton's sardonic God; moral judgment

170

More on the sublime: Burke and Satan

171

Lit analysis 6: First class on Paradise Lost = Blake and Shelley...

172

Intro to Lit 5: Lear, Tate, Addison, Johnson, Freud

173

Intro, class 4: Testing in Lear; parallax; doubling; the Fool

174

Shakespeare and window characters

175

Intro to lit 2: Love personified from Surrey to Bishop

176

Introduction to Literary Studies - 1: Carroll, Jonson, Yeats

177

26. Milton: freedom and necessity, the tyrant's plea

178

19. Last film class: Peeping Tom and lots of psychoanalytic talk about scopohilia

179

25. Some more on Paradise Lost

180

24. First class on Milton

181

18. Peeping Tom, sort of but mainly Freud on instincts, pleasure, unpleasure, and scopophilia

182

23. Marvell's "Upon Appleton House" (briefly) and then "The Unfortunate Lover"

183

18. Vertigo and Freudian repetition

184

22. Marvell - The Garden

185

21. Marvell: Damon the Mower and The Garden

186

16. Other worlds and other minds in Source Code and Groundhog Day

187

20. Last class on Herbert: The Forerunners; The Pulley

188

19. George Herbert: Jordan (I), The Flower, Easter Wings, etc.

189

15. Source Code

190

14. Groundhog Day

191

18. First class on George Herbert

192

13. Skepticism and Zeno's paradoxes, again

193

17. 17th century poetry: a class on Robert Herrick

194

16. 17th c poetry, mainly Jonson's Cary-Morrison Ode

195

12. Film and Philosophy: Akerman's La Captive

196

11. Film and Philosophy

197

15, 17th Century Poetry: Ben Jonson, mainly "The Hourglass"

198

14. 17th C Poetry: Ben Jonson's songs

199

10. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley and Beckett's

200

13. 17th C Poetry: Trinity and then Ben Jonson

201

12. 17th c poetry: Done with Donne

202

9. Film and Philosophy: Berkeley

203

8. Film and Philosophy Plato's Cave

204

11. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 Concluded and Some Holy Sonnets

205

10. 17th Century Poetry: Satire 3 ("Kind pity chokes my spleen")

206

7. Film and Philosophy -- Mainly on Dark City

207

9. 17th C Poetry: Donne's Valediction Forbidding Mourning

208

8. 17th century poetry: Donne's "To His Mistress Upon Going to Bed" and "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning."

209

6. Ontology and the image, from Plato to Cavell

210

7. Seventeenth Century Poetry: Donne's poem "Love's Alchemy"

211

6. 17th Century Poetry -- Donne's "Ecstasy" and "Love's Alchemy"

212

5. Film and Phil: Bazin on Theater vs. Film - clip of rear window

213

4. Film -- A couple of scenes from Out of the Past, and discussion of La Jetée

214

5. 17th Century Poetry Donne's "Go and Catch a Falling Star" and "The Ecstasy"

215

4. 17th c poetry -- some of Donne's secular poems against fidelity

216

Film 3. Aura and Maguffin. Close viewing of Out of the Past

217

3. 17th century poetry

218

2. 17th century poetry. Why death? - more on Donne's "At the round earth's imagined corners"

219

2. Philm (get it?) - versions of continuity

220

Intro to Film and Philosophy: their reciprocity, Marclay's Telephones

221

Selfhood in 17th century poetry: Some Donne

222

Keats' Odes to Psyche and to a Nightingale

223

Last class on The Triumph of Life

224

Second Class on The Triumph of Life

225

Adonais and the opening of The Triumph of Life

226

The Fall of Hyperion and To Autumn

227

Keats and Hyperion: the young poet

228

LR. First Class on Keats: Eve of St. Agnes

229

Last class on Prometheus Unbound

230

Resistance and knuckling under

231

More on Mont Blanc and Prometheus Unbound

232

"The Two Spirits: An Allegory", Mont Blanc and an Introduction to Prometheus Unbound

233

Seeing souls in Frankenstein

234

Frankenstein, again, Prometheus, and Satan

235

10. Frankenstein via Byron and The Witch of Atlas

236

The Witch of Atlas: Phosphor reading by her own light

237

Don Juan, Canto 5

238

LR 7: Don Juan Cantos 3-4

239

LR 6: Don Juan Canto 2: Juan and the Narrator

240

Later Romantix 5: First Class on Don Juan

241

4 How to talk about the Byronic Hero

242

Shelley and Byron on Byron

243

Later Romantics 2: Wordsworth and Milton

244

1. The Later Romantics: Introduction on Shelley and Wordsworth

245

Infinity 24: Last class: review and final explication of Zeno

246

Diagon Alley

247

Infinity 22: Newcomb's problem; Shelley

248

Infinity 21: Klee, Kant, Shelley

249

Infinity 20: Kant on Perception and Free Will

250

Infinity 19: Hume on induction, Kant on space and time, especially space

251

Infinity 18: Descartes, Gibson, Turing Tests

252

Infinity 17: Etherization

253

Infinity 16: Making Prisoner's Dilemma Vivid

254

Infinity 15: Pascal

255

Infinity 14: Polls and other minds

256

Infinity 13: Elementary probability and the philosophy of probablity

257

Pascal, the anthropic principle, what counts in philosophy

258

Infinity 11: by addition, by division, one-to-one correspondence, Macbeth, and time

259

Infinity 10: Augustine on time and language

260

Infinity 9: Something of a change of pace

261

Infinity 8: Philosophical questions

262

Infinity 7: Aristotle and the reality of space and time

263

Parmenides, Anaximander, Hilbert, the Fifth Postulate

264

Infinity 5: Extension and intension and interesting numbers

265

Sets and counting

266

Infinity 3: God's Point of View

267

Infinity 2: Borges

268

First class on Thinking About Infinity

269

Last class - Milton

270

Last class on Merrill's Book of Ephraim

271

Marvell

272

Ephraim 4/26/12

273

Satan, God, Adam and Eve

274

Keeping them down on the farm

275

Ephraim 4/23/12

276

Book of Ephraim, con't 4/19/12

277

Milton

278

Book of Ephraim, con't 4/18/12

279

Paradise Lost introduced yet once more

280

Who or what we took Ephraim to Be

281

Ephraim, 2nd class

282

Crashaw, Cowley, interiority, counter-reformation, Poetry to God and metaphysical conceits

283

Book of Ephraim

284

A last class on Herbert

285

Last class on Turn of the Screw

286

Turn of the Screw, part 6

287

Herbert: second class

288

Turn of the Screw, part 5

289

Herbert: first class

290

Turn of the Screw, Part 3: Dworkin again

291

Turn of the Screw, part 3

292

Herrick

293

Turn of the Screw, Part 2: Permutations

294

Ben Jonson

295

Turn of the Screw, Part 1: the frame narrative

296

Childe Roland, Concluded

297

First class on Browning's Childe Roland

298

Second class on Donne

299

Some poems of Donne's

300

Mont Blanc, concluded

301

Mont Blanc continued: Brain or Sky

302

Songs from the Plays: Nashe, Kenneth Koch, Daniel

303

Mont Blanc: which is to be master

304

More on Astrophel and Stella; then some Shakespeare

305

Paradise Lost, The Intimations Ode, Mont Blanc

306

Last class on the Intimations Ode

307

Continuing on with the Intimations Ode

308

Astrophel and Stella, part 2

309

First class on Astrophel and Stella

310

Intimations Ode rebooted and general remarks on the Romantic sense of Milton 2_27_12

311

Vacation bonus: talk at UCLA

312

Wordsworth reboots the Intimations Ode

313

Southwell and Marlowe - 2.13.12

314

The Intimations Ode proper - 2.13.12

315

Heavy as Frost 2-9-12

316

Some moments from the Faerie Queene 2-8-12

317

Versions of the Intimations Ode

318

A desultory class on Spenser 2/6/12

319

Poetry and the personification of Love - 2/6/12

320

The burning boy: Metaphor and personification 2-2-12

321

Two poems of Surrey: "The Soote Season" and "Ye Happy Dames"

322

More on Blake's speakers and Bishop's version of Casabianca 2/1/12

323

Some versions of Petrarch and the allegory of love

324

More on Blake and the play of voices in his poems

325

Close reading: the Nurse's Song from Songs of Experience 1-26-12

326

Skelton's rhymes, Cole Porter's, Wyatt's

327

Tripartite relations in lullabies

328

Last class on Lullaby 1-23-12

329

Love (III) as a version of They Flee From Me 1-23-12

330

Close reading 1-19-11 Auden and Yeats

331

Renaissance Poetry - First Class: Wyatt

332

Close reading: lullabies

333

Last class: Samson, blindness, closet drama

334

Temptation in Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Paradise Regained

335

How human think things through

336

Moral typologies

337

Dreams, allegory, other minds

338

Prayer and Invocation

339

Paradise Lost, 5

340

Who judges God's ways?

341

Paradise Lost, III

342

Paradise Lost, II

343

First class on Paradise Lost

344

Comus, rape, and freedom

345

Lycidas, concluded, and Comus

346

Contrasts and debates in Milton

347

First class on Milton: Lycidas

348

Scopophilia and narrative

349

More on Book VI as Pastoral

350

Variety and uniformity

351

Justice and Courtesy

352

Varieties of justice

353

The Temple of Venus

354

The friend as second self in Book 4

355

Faerie Queene, Book IV: Love and Friendship

356

Matter and form in the Garden of Adonis

357

What it's like to live in the Land of Faery

358

Amoret and Belphoebe, and what the House of Busirane is for

359

More on Book 3

360

Faerie Queene III Britomart and allegory

361

Faerie Queene, Book 3, beginning

362

A lovely lay and the Bower of Bliss

363

Temperance and self-restraint

364

Temperance and certainty

365

Spenser: allegory and character

366

Allegory and character

367

Second class on Spenser: I. 1-4

368

First real class on Spenser, with attention to Milton

369

Last 18th c poetry class: Pope and retrospective

370

Wordsworth and Coleridge in 1798: Frost at Midnight and Tintern Abbey

371

Last class on Paradise Lost and of the Semester

372

Freedom of conscience and guilt in Paradise Lost

373

Burns, Blake, and perspectives on the innocent

374

Paradise Lost I: Antecedents

375

Barbauld and Baillie

376

Goldsmith and Cowper

377

Paradiso and Paradise Lost

378

Paradiso and the universe and everything

379

Christopher Smart: Prayer and Praise

380

Young, Gray, and the advent of Romanticism

381

Purgatorio and beginning of Paradiso

382

Purgatorio part two

383

Thomson and Collins

384

Inferno and start of Purgatorio 11-5-10

385

Doctor Johnson

386

Last class on Pope

387

Second class on Dante: More on the Inferno

388

Pope's satires and To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

389

First class on Dante -- 10/29/10

390

Last class on Virgil - his versions of Homer

391

Third class on Pope: How pure poetry becomes topical

392

2nd class on Virgil: his sublimity

393

Pope: Essay on Criticism concluded, Eloisa to Abelard and Rape of the Lock begun

394

First class on Pope, 10/19/10

395

Virgil and Homer. Ovid.

396

Ovid and the Ovidian Milton

397

Swift on himself, to Stella, and to the world, 10/12/10

398

Plato's Socrates and Aristophanes's - 10/12/10

399

Second class on Plato: the Cave, Socrates's argument with poetry early and late

400

First Swift class-NSFW: very scatalogical

401

Rochester NSFW 10/5/10 2nd and Last class

402

Plato, 10/5/10: first of two classes

403

Rochester 10/1/10 First class

404

Odyssey 4, 10/01/10, Conclusion

405

! First lecture, RECOVERED, from 9/7/10 on Absalom and Achitophel

406

! Beginning, recovered, of first (9/17/10) Odyssey Class

407

Concluding lecture on Dryden

408

Odyssey part 3: Why Odysseus is No Man

409

Dryden's subtlety

410

Odyssey, part 2: the use of oral formulae

411

Absalom and Achitophel, and Religio Lacici, concluded

412

First lecture on the Odyssey: Hospitality and Gift Giving

413

Achilleus, Patroklos, Hector, Priam, and the laws of hospitality

414

Religio Laici and poetic expertise about politics and theology

415

Hektor frightens Astyanax, Achilleus plays the lyre

416

3. Background to Absalom and Achitophel and its Preface

417

3. Iliad, mainly Book 6

418

Dryden on Oldham; Oldham on Sodom; Dryden's scatology

419

Homeric simile in the Iliad

420

Introduction to Restoration and Eighteenth Century Poetry

421

Thamyris and Homer in Milton and Dante

422

Things new born: conclusion of Winter's Tale and of course

423

The Winter's Tale, Part 1 (Things Dying)

424

Antony and Cleopatra concluded

425

Antony and Cleopatra, third of 4: Antony

426

Antony and Cleopatra, part 2 of 4

427

Antony and Cleopatra Part 1

428

Third talk: Amimetobios on Tense, narration, and loss in Proust; followed by discussion

429

Second Talk: Nicolas de Warren on Aspects of the Imagination in Proust

430

First Talk: Dick Moran on The Proustian Involuntary

431

April Vacation Bonus: Proust and Philosophy, Introduction

432

Macbeth concluded; 2-week vacation hiatus

433

Macbeth Part One

434

King Lear Part 3 - Conclusion

435

King Lear, second lecture

436

King Lear: Part 1

437

Hamlet, part 3: conclusion

438

Hamlet part 2: Hamlet, Laertes, Introspection, and Drama

439

Hamlet, Lecture 1

440

Feb vacation bonus: How to Fix Literary Darwinism

441

Merchant of Venice

442

Midsummer Night's Dream, concluded

443

Richard II conclusion & Midsummer Night's Dream Intro

444

Richard II, part 3

445

Second lecture on Richard II

446

First lecture on Richard II