#  English 152kd. Keats Isn't Dead: How We Live Romanticism 

 



Instructor: [Vidyan Ravinthiran](/people/vidyan-ravinthiran)  
Spring 2027  
TBD | Location: TBD  
Spring 2026  
Monday & Wednesday, 12:00-1:15pm | Location: TBD

Our thoughts and feelings about identity, self-expression, and the power of the imagination draw on the British Romantic poetry of the Long Eighteenth Century—whether we've read any or not. Focusing on John Keats (his key poems, and his key ideas, about "negative capability", the "camelion poet", and so on), this course makes unconventional connections into the twentieth, and twenty-first century. Tracking issues of race, class, gender and sexuality, we'll bounce from Keats into war verse; African-American poetries; world/postcolonial writing; the literature of social class; feminist experimentalism; and constructions of masculinity. Concentrators will learn how to analyze poetry in both closed and open forms.  
  
This course satisfies the “1700-1900 Guided Elective" requirement for English concentrators and Secondary Field students.



 



 

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