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Readings on the Rights of Man Controversy

Edmund Burke, excerpts from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) (Modern History Sourcebook)

Burke, "Englishness," from Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Thomas Paine, excerpts from The Rights of Man (1792) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)

Arthur Young, excerpts from Travels in France (1792) (Hanover Historical Texts Project)

Coleridge, "France: An Ode"

Coleridge, "Once a Jacobin Always a Jacobin"

Wordsworth: browse for all selections by title at the Wordsworth Variorum Archive

Wordsworth, "Black Comb" poems, "Laodamia," "To the Same [The Second Ode to Lycoris]"

Wordsworth, list of "Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty"

Wordsworth, "Thanksgiving Ode" and other poems

Wordsworth, list of readings in Poems in Two Volumes (1807)

Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Scott, Marmion

Wordsworth, The Waggoner

Wordsworth, "River Duddon: A Series of Sonnets"

Wordsworth, a few late sonnets

Cowley, A Day in Turkey

Inchbald, Such Things Are

Peacock, The Genius of the Thames

 

Handouts

Course Syllabus (PDF)

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)

Use of Text (MLA Citation)

MLA Citation Examples

Writing Effective Sentences

Writing Effective Paragraphs

Notes to Style

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Lesson 5

Lesson 7