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MIT OpenCourseWare
Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?"
- Instructor
- Prof. Noel Jackson
- Term
- Fall 2005
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 reading · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?", Fall 2005, Prof. Noel Jackson — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Course outline
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Lecture 2: Elaine Scarry
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Lecture 3: Elaine Scarry (cont.)
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Lecture 4: Plato
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Lecture 5: David Hume
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Lecture 6: Immanuel Kant
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Lecture 7: Friedrich Schiller
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Lecture 8: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Lecture 9: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
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Lecture 10: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
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Lecture 11: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
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Lecture 12: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (cont.)
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Lecture 13: John Keats
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Lecture 14: John Keats (cont.)
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Lecture 15: John Keats and Walter Benjamin
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Lecture 16: John Keats and Walter Benajmin (cont.) Theodor Adorno
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Lecture 17: Thomas Love Peacock and P. B. Shelley
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Lecture 18: Mary Shelley
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Lecture 19: Mary Shelley (cont.)
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Lecture 20: Lord Byron and George Gordon
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Lecture 21: Lord Byron and George Gordon (cont.)
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Lecture 22: Charles Dickens
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Lecture 23: Charles Dickens (cont.) Martha Nussbaum
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Lecture 24: Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater
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Lecture 25: Oscar Wilde
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Lecture 26: Student Presentations
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Noel Jackson, 21L.704 Studies in Poetry: "What's the Use of Beauty?", Fall 2005.
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