Radical literary education : a classroom experiment with Wordsworth's "Ode"

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Part one: Introduction

A problem in literary education

The instructor's autobiography

Two minds about revision

Part two: Wordsworth's "Ode": examining its convictions

A message from eternity

A poem of contemplation

Playing with questions

Imitation and development

Part three: The history of the ode

Horace

The ode tradition through Collins

Coleridge

Wordsworth's "Ode" in the ode tradition

Part four: Revision

The history of revision in the "Ode": from "Untam'd pleasure" to "Heaven-born freedom"

"The mad monk" and erotic fantasy

Part five: Biography and history

The "Ode" and Wordsworth's biography

Par six: Criticism from a contemporary

Hazlitt, poetry and Mr Wordsworth

Hazlitt, Romeo and Juliet, and the "Ode"

Part seven: Adolescence and critical consciousness

The provocation of Hazlitt's intervention

The limits of beauty: a traditional reading of the "Ode"

Beauty, disappointment, and sympathy