Welcome to Module 3! (1.5 – 2 hours)
Here’s what you need to do this week:
- Think further about the text or period you will choose for your final project (proposal due in two weeks, see Schedule). We will talk about it during our special meeting.
- Read from the Anthology:
– Vol. 5: “William Wordsworth” (p. 1751); “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey,” by William Wordsworth, 1798 (pp.1753-1756); read what you can of the excerpt from “Preface to the Lyrical Ballads” (pp. 1758-1770).
– “La belle dame sans merci,” by John Keats, 1820 (his bio is on p.1838 of the Anthology). - Watch the lecture below (Part 1 and Part 2).
- Go to the Google Doc to post or comment.
- Fill out the exit ticket for this lecture so I can count your participation.
Below is the lecture transcript:
Below are the slides:
Wanna do more?
- The School of Life on Romanticism and why we are still hopeless Romantics today: https://youtu.be/OiRWBI0JTYQ
- A very short documentary on Wordsworth: https://youtu.be/Mvps8Nt4AVs
- A podcast by Writ Large in which a text by Persian poet Abd al-Qāhir al-Jurjānī is compared to Wordsworth’s poem: https://www.writlarge.fm/episodes/indications-of-inimitability
- A helpful article to decrypt Keats’ “La belle dame sans merci” (though we differ on the interpretation of the related Punch Magazine cartoon): https://ricochet.com/597760/archives/quote-of-the-day-la-belle-dame-sans-merci/
Feel free to write a comment or reply to any of your classmates’ comments if you feel like saying anything else about the module content 🙂
