On these pages, you will find lectures that go along with the readings. Please read them carefully, and try to answer all the questions (in your head; no need to write down answers).
Use the links below to get to the lecture you want.
Lecture 1: Introduction to the Romantics; Blake, Wordsworth, and Coleridge
Lecture 2: The Romantics, continued: Byron, Shelley, and Keats
Lecture 3: The Romantics, continued: Mary Shelley
Lecture 4: Romantic or Victorian? Jane Austen
Lecture 5: Introduction to the Victorians; Tennyson and Browning
Lecture 6: The Victorians, continued: Charles Dickens
Lecture 7: The Victorians, continued: Arnold, Pater, and Hopkins
Lecture 8: The Victorians, continued: Charlotte Bronte
Lecture 9: The Victorians? Oscar Wilde
Lecture 10: Introduction to the Twentieth Century; Joseph Conrad
Lecture 11: The Twentieth Century, continued: Brooke, Sassoon, Owen, Yeats, and Eliot
Lecture 12: The Twentieth Century, continued: Woolf, Joyce, and Lawrence
Lecture 13: The Twentieth Century, continued: Tom Stoppard