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Lit 14 Handouts, Files, and Templates Poets: Lord Byron Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Percy Bysshe Shelley William Wordsworth
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Lit 14 introduces students to poetry and drama. To see what readings in previous Lit 14 classes looked like, visit the link at the bottom of this page. Download the latest syllabus for this class here. Visit the links to pages dedicated to various poets located in the sidebar of this page to view notes (including questions and other points) about works by these poets. The readings for this class (except for the plays) are available in an Anthology of English Verse which you can download here. Right-click on the word linked word "here" and select "Save Target As" or "Save File As" or the option in your web browser for saving the file and download the document to your hard disk. Click on the file in your hard disk to see if it can be read (that means Adobe Reader or another program that reads PDFs is installed). Otherwise, go to the "Help" page of this website for details on getting Adobe Reader. May 9th: Please go to the "Handouts, Files, and Templates" section linked in the side bar and download the Reading and Writing Handbook. View it using Adobe Reader and go to the sections containing the assessment rubric and proofreading marks. Some of the proofreading marks were used to mark the first literary essay. April 23rd: There is a new version of the Anthology dated April 22nd and is available here; it includes Yeats' "Leda and the Swan." You may also download Yeats' poem only here. Use Adobe Reader to print out the anthology on short, bond paper. Some printers allow you to print on both sides of the paper, such that Page 1 appears on one side of a sheet and Page 2 on the other side, then Page 3 on the front side of the next sheet and Page 4 on the back, and so on. You can find out more by checking the help files and "properties" button of the printer. Visit the "Handouts, Files, and Templates" page to view various files that may be helpful for this class. You will probably need the paper template for any paper requirements, a draft of my reading and writing handbook may offer you lots of advice on writing about poetry or prose, and even if the sample student essay refers to a work of fiction you may see use the argumentation and level of close reading in the essay as a model for writing about poems. Take a look at the various pages in this site dedicated to poets discussed in our class by looking at the sidebar of this page. Various links will be added throughout the term. Visit the page on Literary Movements to view resources about various periods, as well as other schema, like Harold Bloom's. You may also look at the Norton Anthology suggestion given below, or for those interested in television documentaries, Sir Kenneth Clark's magnificent Civilisation, which might be available in your local university library. (There is, believe it or not, a wealth of multimedia, including musical albums, documentaries, and even feature films, in university libraries.) For those looking for anthologies for this class, try the following: The Web Companion to the Norton Anthology of English Literature (linked in the Literature in General page) Those who find it difficult to appreciate the works assigned in this class might find some comfort in classes like those of Rafe Esquith and the Hobart Shakespeareans (see "Pursuing Happiness, Through Hard Work" and a short video about the Hobart Shakespereans in the Liberal Education page). For anyone wondering about the importance of writing essays might want to look at The Concord Review which is linked in the same Liberal Education page. There is also a draft of a reading and writing handbook in the Handouts, Files, and Templates page linked in the sidebar. For students taking only Lit 13 and 14 and would like to know what reading lists look like in other schools, try the Columbia University Core Curriculum, Literature Humanities, and Contemporary Civilizations pages linked in the Liberal Education page mentioned earlier. Students asking for recommended readings may consider Harold Bloom's western canon list and the Great Books Foundation site, both linked in the same Liberal Education page. If you are interested in looking at connections between poetry and other disciplines, try this short essay that I sent to one e-mail and found in the Essays section. Perhaps what applies to seeing religion in light of astronomy might also apply to poetry.
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