Eton or Harrow.
Seriously, in the era of #BLM and “Black@SchoolName”, which our family strongly supports, the Western Civ. ship has not only sailed among US boarding schools, it has been sunk. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiatives very much focus on BS core curricula, and look no further than suggested and mandatory summer reading lists to recognize it’s now a different era. Yet most US BSs have electives that would be very relevant to some of your curriculum objectives.
Check out ERP at Andover:
English Romantic Poetry
ENG511RO
(T1)
In the preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads, William Wordsworth claims, “…all good Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings” produced by authors who “had also thought long and deeply.” For Wordsworth and other poets retrospectively labeled
“Romantic,” the tension between spontaneity and deliberation led to an exploration and interrogation of what constitutes “good Poetry”
in late 18th- and early 19th-century England. In this course, we will examine how the Romantics—especially Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor
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Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats—defined and contextualized their art. In doing so, we will consider how and why these
writers are grouped together as Romantic poets. Other authors may include William Blake, Robert Burns, Lord Byron, Thomas Chatterton,
John Clare, Mary Robinson, Walter Scott, Robert Southey, and Dorothy Wordsworth. (Mr. Rielly)