Composition Guide (PDF file)

Outline of Aristotle’s Poetics

Famous phrases from Horace’s Art of Poetry

A biographical profile of Sir Philip Sidney (external link to a Sidney web site)

Outline of Hume’s “Of the Standard of Taste”

Plato, Republic, books II and III, tr. by B. Jowett (PDF file)

Plato, Republic, book X, tr. by B. Jowett (PDF file)

Aristotle, Poetics, tr. by S. H. Butcher (PDF file; the same translation as in CT; HTML and plain-text versions of the same text are available at the Internet Classics Archive)

Horace, Art of Poetry in rhyming English verse (external link to Peithô’s Web)

Horace, Ars poetica (Latin text) (external link to the Latin Library)

Longinus, On the Sublime, tr. by W. Rhys Roberts (external link to Peithô’s Web; the same translation as in CT)

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, no. 409 (PDF file; supplement to reading for Feb. 18)

Wordsworth, Complete Poetical Works (at Bartleby.com)

Poetry of Keats (at Bartleby.com)

Poetry of Coleridge (at the Samuel Taylor Coleridge Archive)

Poetry of Peacock (Thomas Love Peacock Society web page)

Shelley, Complete Poetical Works (actually very far from complete; at Bartleby.com)

Wilde, “Preface” to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Wilde, The Decay of Lying (at the English Server)

T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land (at Bartleby.com)

T. S. Eliot, Prufrock and Other Observations (at Bartleby.com)

T. S. Eliot, The Sacred Wood (includes “Tradition and the Individual Talent” and “Hamlet and His Problems”; at Bartleby.com)

Links (all external) to texts of poems cited by Brooks in “The Heresy of Paraphrase”: 

John Donne, The Canonization

John Milton, L'Allegro; Il Penseroso

Robert Herrick, Corinna's Going a-Maying

Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Church-Yard

William Wordsworth, Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood

John Keats, Ode on a Grecian Urn

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Tears, Idle Tears

Wiliam Butler Yeats, Among School Children
 

For Tuesday, January 21

For Friday, January 24

For Tuesday, January 28

For Friday, January 31

For Tuesday, February 4

For Friday, February 7 and Tuesday, February 11 (includes first paper assignment)

For Friday, February 14

For Tuesday, February 18

For Friday, February 21

For Tuesday, February 25

For Friday, February 28 Tuesday, March 11

For Friday, March 14 and Tuesday, March 18 (includes second paper assignment)

For Friday, March 21

For Tuesday, March 25

For Friday, March 28

For Tuesday, April 1

For Friday, April 4

For Tuesday, April 8

For Friday, April 11 and Tuesday, April 15 (includes third paper assignment)

For Tuesday, April 29 (last class session) 

ADDED 4/25/03: Study questions for final examination (PDF file-- requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)