Among the specific goals the students are expected to achieve in this course are the following:

        * to be able to analyze and interpret the major poems written in the period with a critical awareness and intellectual sophistication

        * to become acquainted with the characteristics of various genres of literature in the  Romantic Period,

        * to improve their ability to articulate ideas about and respond to the poems against the backdrop of different theories and philosophical schools that appeared before and after the Romantic Period,

        * to practice skills that will enable them to analyze other textual material like films, iconic signs, cultural elements and rituals that belong to the Period

       * to study the works of the women poets and writers who were excluded from the canonical texts and anthologies and bring to attention the literary potential of these figures by re-reading them from a new vantage point