Series[UMA-SRE-20140044] EARLY YEARS ACADEMIC, PERFORMANCE, WRITING AND PERSONAL PAPERSAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2014004400079Scope and ContentCourse notes and ephemera relating to 18th Century Poetry, a second-year subject taught by Germaine Greer at Warwick University in 1972. Course comprised 15 lectures beginning with Horatian Satire (Donne to Pope) and concluding with the Precursors to Romanticism. Poets included: Butler, Swift, Don Juan, Dryden, Johnson, Crabbe, Sir John Davies, Greville, Milton, Marvel, Thomson, Crabbe, Campion, Moore, Spenser, Ariosto, Ossian, Chatterton and Blake. Proposed text: World's Classics English Verse Vol. III - From Dryden to Wordsworth. Includes: folder of notes marked Godwin (English writer William Godwin 1756-1836) in green plastic sleave; clipping of undated magazine feature, Philip Norman, 'The Marvellous Boy', on Thomas Chatterton; anotated copies of 18th century poems; reading lists; English Poetry Lectures Summer 1973, marked GG 26 April 1973, series of 10 lectures beginning with Introductory: Augustanism and ending with Mythics and Madmen: the Precursors of Romanticism and notes towards some of these lectures; notes on Roman lyric poet Horace (1680-1750); notes on women poets, 3 pages, begins with Anne Finch; doodles.Access StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2014.0044 Unit 0005
Greer, Germaine, English Poetry Lectures (1972-1973), [UMA-ITE-2014004400079]. University of Melbourne Archives, accessed 01/05/2026, https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/343768
