• The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Romantic Period. Volume 2A. Seventh Edition. Edited by M. H. Abrams. New York: W. W. Norton and Company, Inc. 2003.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus. Edited with an introduction by Maurice Hindle. New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1992.
• Trimmer, Joseph. A Guide to MLA Documentation. Sixth edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004

The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism, ed. Frank Jordan, 4th edition. MLA, l985. [Davis Reference Shelf, PR590.E5.1985, ROW 29]. This is an annotated bibliography of books and important articles on the Romantic poets and their works. Critical works on the Romantics from before and after1985 to the present can be found in the Norton Antho. (pgs. A23-33), through the index of periodical literature, the annual bibliography published by Garland Press (from 1979) and journals in the field, e.g., Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, The Wordsworth Circle, and Keats-Shelley Journal, which is now online for the years 1994-2004 at: http://www.rc.umd.edu/reference/ksjbib/. See also http://www.lib.unc.edu for UNC's Article Databases (e.g., MLA International Bibliography [1963-2004]), Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, and Literature Online), E-Journal Finder, and Print Journals (Catalog Search); the Romantic Circles at http://www.rc.umd.edu, Romanticism on the Net at http://www.ron.umontreal.ca/, the Norton Anthology web site at http://www.norton.com/nael/, Voice of the Shuttle, http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Romantic/, and Romantic Literary Resources, http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/romantic.html. For articles online, see the Scholarly Journal Archive at http://www.jstor.org/. Also helpful is the Introduction to Library Research, http://www.lib.unc.edu/instruct/tutorial/.

Blake's The Book of Thel, The Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, America, a Prophecy, Europe, a Prophecy, and The Book of Urizen are illuminated books that are reproduced in excellent facsimiles, copies of which are in the Department of Rare Books, Wilson Library; for excellent digital reproductions of various exemplary copies of these and other of Blake's illuminated books, as well as engravings, paintings, and helpful bibliographies, go to The Blake Archive at http://blakearchive.org.

ASSIGNMENTS: two quizzes, midterm, and a final exam. You will be asked to contribute identification questions for the quizzes and exams and to supply detailed answers. Questions and answers are to be typed.

Two papers are required: the first will deal with one or more works from the first generation of writers (Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge); the second will deal with works from the second generation (Byron, P. Shelley, M. Shelley, Keats). The topics are open and can be taken from anything we read or discuss in class, or from "Explorations" in Norton online. The topic needs to be cleared with me at least one week in advanced of the due date; length of the papers should be appropriate to the topic and argument, though four pages are usually too few and ten too many. N.B.: All papers should include a works cited page and at least four secondary sources; all web sources must be from vetted sites or refereed electronic journals.

GRADES: You are responsible for the works assigned on the syllabus, and not only those works discussed in class. The papers are worth 25 points each; the final exam is worth 25 points; the midterm exam is worth 15 points. The quizzes are worth 3 and 7 points respectively.

Due Dates for papers on the following authors (dates in parenthesis are when paper topic is due):