Supplemental Course Materials
Reading Notes
Background on
the French Revolution
Background on
the Industrial Revolution
Notes on
Blake's The
Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Notes on
Wollstonecraft's Vindication
of the Rights of Woman
Hobsbawm and Emsley on the War
Notes on Godwin's Things as They Are; or Caleb Williams
Background on Lyrical
Ballads (General)
Reading Questions
on the "Preface" (from ENGL 441)
Notes on Kant's Critique of
Judgment
Notes on
Wordsworth's
"Spots of Time" (Prelude XI)
Notes on
Wordsworth's "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"
Notes on Coleridge's
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Notes on Coleridge's
Rime of the Ancient Mariner (some quotes of interest)
Notes on Barbauld's Eighteen
Hundred Eleven
Notes on Keats'
"Ode to a Nightingale"
Notes on Shelley's
Prometheus Unbound
Notes on Shelley's
"Ode to the West Wind"
Additional Readings
Blake's Illustrated Songs of Innocence and Experience
Blake's Illustrated The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Blake's Illustrated
Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Emsley, “Ideas” (Britain and the French Revolution 9-20)
Emsley, “War” (Britain
and the French Revolution 53-69)
Coleridge, "Jacobinism," "Once a
Jacobin Always a Jacobin"
Some Contemporary Criticisms of Lyrical
Ballads
Wordsworth, "The Happy Warrior"
and "Laodamia"
Barbauld, "Sins of Government, Sins of
the Nation"
Wordsworth, selections from
"Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty"
Audio
Barbauld
Blake (read by Ralph Richardson unless otherwise noted):
Songs of Innocence
Introduction
The Shepherd
The Lamb
The Little Black Boy
The Little Black Boy (read by Alan Bates)
The Chimney Sweeper
The Little Boy Lost
The Little Boy Found
Infant Joy On Another's Sorrow (read by Alan Bates)Songs of Experience
Introduction
The Clod and the Pebble
The Tyger
A Poison Tree
Byron
She Walks in Beauty
"Lake Leman" from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
"Plato" from Don Juan, Canto 1
Coleridge
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Part the First
Part the Second
Part the Third
Part the Fourth
Part the Fifth
Part the Sixth
Part the Seventh
Shelley
Wordsworth
Lines Written in Early Spring
Expostulation and Reply
The Tables Turned
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
There was a boy
Strange Fits of Passion
A slumber did my spirit seal
I wandered lonely as a cloud
Writing and Rhetoric
Everything You Should Have Learned in English 101
Ethos, Logos, Pathos: Three Ways to Persuade
Walvoord and McCarthy on Good/Better/Best
Organizing an Essay: Using Representative Cases
Organizing an Essay: Cause and Effect
What to Avoid and What to Do (Developing an Essay)