This course is divided into three areas—art, literature, and music. Each is taught by a different professor, who will discuss the effect of Romanticism on the field. For details, see Emerging ...

Mon., 8 Jan.: Introduction to the course. Romantic aesthetics: the mirror and the lamp. Classic or Romantic? The search for a usable past. A Time-Line of English Poetry, 658-2001. Wed., 10 Jan.: Music ...

“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,/ It’s with O’Leary in the grave.” So wrote WB Yeats in his well-known poem September 1913, as he mournfully reflected on contemporary Irish culture, comparing it ...

John-Paul Heil - Historian, University of Chicago and Mount St. Mary's University Can the damned be saved? Can a soul’s condemnation to hell be undone? For Dante Alighieri, the Florentine poet who ...

Specializes in British Romantic literature and culture, literature and empire, poetics, and early children's literature. His current research involves Romantic theories and representations of ...

The association between Methodism and English Romanticism, of course, has a long history. Most of the early Romantics had some connection to the Methodists—if only an antagonistic one. Leigh Hunt ...