English 315
British Romanticism
Student Presentations

Students are expected to select a topic from the list below and come to class prepared to "teach" the class on that day. What this means is that you will be prepared to discuss all relevant background--historical and biographical--information and present a thoughtful and critical explanation of the reading, one that moves beyond simple plot summary and instead addresses the text's important themes, arguments, literary techniques, etc., including, if necessary, an explanation of the text's connection to other works that we might have read or other significant works of the period.  Your ability to provide thoughtful responses to questions from your classmates and/or instructor will also be an important factor.

Keep in mind, here, that I am not expecting you to become an "expert," on the work (whatever that means).  What I will expect is that you have thought carefully about the text and, most likely, solicited information from outside sources to facilitate your understanding of the work.  References to secondary sources, use of visual aids, and creative techniques to increase audience participation are all encouraged, as long as the primary focus remains on the explanation of the actual work itself. Please let me know as early as possible what if any electronic/technological accomodations you will require so that I can make the proper arrangements.

As I mentioned in class, if two people sign up for the same day, it would be best if you did in fact work together and cover all the material for the day.

Reading List (Subject to Subtle Revision):
Name
Sept 15 WW, Lyrical Ballads, 387
Preface to Lyrical Ballads, 408-20
"Simon Lee," 387-90
17 WW, "Lines Written in Early Spring,"  393-94
WW, " Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," 404-8
19 Coleridge, 570-71
"Ancient Mariner," 578-95
22 STC, "Christabel," 598-614
24 STC, "Kubla Khan," 614-16
26 "Dejection:  An Ode," 619-23
29 Blake, 150-52
Songs of Innocence and Experience, 156-57
"The Chimney Sweeper," 161-62, 174
"The Tyger," 177-78
"London," 179
Oct 1 The Abolition Movement, 209-10
Clarkson, 250-59
3 Equiano, 210-19
Prince, 219-24		 Vicky Burgess
6 Blake, "The Little Black Boy," 160-61
Southey, Sonnets 3-6, 244-46
8 WW, 259-61
"To Toussaint L'Ouverture," 
"To Thomas Clarkson," 
Prelude, from Book 10
13 Female Voices
Wollstonecraft, from Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 279-303
15 Dorothy Wordsworth, 538-40
Grasmere Journals, 551-57 
WW, "Resolution and Independence,"  520-24
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," 526		 Ryan Bowens
20 Jane Austen, Emma, 
Introduction & Vol. I, xi-xxiv, 1-114
Maurice Munro
22 Emma, Vol. II, 115-233
24 Emma, Vol. III, 233-360
27 Emma wrap-up
29 The Younger Generation
Lord Byron, 656-58
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, 711-25
31 Byron,  "She Walks in Beauty,'" 658
"Stanzas," 808
"On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year," 808-9		 Kenya Wortherly
Nov 3 Don Juan, Dedication, 727-32
Canto I, 732-78
5 Canto I, Cont. 
7 Byron, Don Juan, Canto II & III, 779-804
10 Hemans, 877-78
"The Bride of the Greek Isle," 887-92
12 Hemans, "Properzia Rossi," 892-95
"Indian Woman's Death-Song," 896-97
Dominique Inge
14 Percy Shelley, 814-16
"from A Defence of Poetry," 867-76
17 WW, "London, 1802," 451-52
PBS, "To Wordsworth," 816-17
19 PBS, "Sonnet: England in 1819," 824 
"The Mask of Anarchy," 824-34
21 PBS, "Ode to the West Wind," 835-37
"To a Sky-Lark," 837-39
24 Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Introduction xvii-xxxii
Author's Introduction, 186-91
Journal Entries, 245-47
Preface & Vol. 1, 3-64
26 Vol. 2, 64-115
Dec 1 Vol. 3, 115-79
3 Keats, 920-22
The Odes of 1819, 950-51
"Ode to a Nightingale," 953-55
"Ode on a Grecian Urn," 955-57
Letters to Bailey, George and Thomas Keats, and Reynolds, 992-95		 Najia Mclean
Erin Fair
5 The Fall of Hyperion:  A Dream, 978-92
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