History of Poetry II - From the Mid-Eighteenth Century to Modernism

This lecture provides a survey of the development of English poetry from the final decades of the eighteenth up to the first decades/half of the twentieth century. In terms of periods, this means that the lecture is going to introduces students to the major implications and writers of Romanticism (e.g. William Blake, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron), Victorianism (e.g. Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy) and Modernism (e.g. T.S. Eliot).