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ENGL 2122: British Literature II Lessons

Directions: For each lesson below, follow all links and read them carefully. All primary texts may be found in your required textbook. All writing exercises should be completed on Packback discussions.

 note: Before beginning any of the assignments below, consult your specific course syllabus. Not all assignments will be completed by every class. Specific assignments, required materials, due dates, and additional instructions will appear on your syllabus.

1. Orientation

1. Read and review the following links:
   • I’m not an English major: why should I write about literature?
   • How do I begin writing about literature?
   • What are the basics of literary analysis?
   • What are the basics of interpreting a literary text?
   • What are the conventions and vocabulary necessary for writing about literature?

2. The Romantic Period

1. Read:
   • Romanticism: Revolt of the Spirit
   • Editor’s Introduction, pp. 3–30.
2. Take Period Introduction Quiz on D2L.
3. Post to Packback.

2a. William Blake

1. Read:
   • From Songs of Innocence: “Introduction”; “The Lamb”; “The Chimney Sweeper”; “The Blossom”; “The Divine Image”
   • From Songs of Experience: “Introduction”; “Earth’s Answer”; “The Tyger”; “The Chimney Sweeper”; “The Sick Rose”; “The Human Abstract”; “London”
2. Post to Packback.

2b. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

1. Read:
   • “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
   • “Kubla Khan”
2. Post to Packback.

2c. William Wordsworth

1. Read:
   • “Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”
   • “I wandered lonely as a cloud”
   • “I travelled among unknown men”
   • “The World Is too Much with Us”
2. Post to Packback.

2d. George Gordon, Lord Byron

1. Read:
   • “She Walks in Beauty”
   • “Darkness”
   • “So We’ll No More Go A-Roving”
2. Post to Packback.

2e. Percy Bysshe Shelley

1. Read:
   • “Ozymandias”
   • “To a Sky-Lark”
   • “Ode to the West Wind”
2. Post to Packback.

2f. John Keats

1. Read:
   • “On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
   • “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
   • “When I have fears that I may cease to be”
   • “Ode to a Nightingale”
   • “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
2. Post to Packback.

2g. Other Romantics

1. Read:
   • Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “The Cry of the Children”; “How do I love thee?”
   • Dorothy Wordsworth: “Grasmere—A Fragment”
2. Post to Packback.

6. The Contemporary Period

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notes

Written: 2002, 2022; Revised: 07-31-2024; Version: Beta 0.7

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