Thursday, February 7, 2013

Wordsworth's Prelude, the "Boat-stealing episode, "(i.357-400)

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One of the key concepts of Wordsworth's autobiographical epic The Prelude is that our identity and character are shaped by distinc...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Keats's Eve of St. Agnes, Stanzas 34-36

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34 Her eyes were open, but she still beheld, Now wide awake, the vision of her sleep: There was a painful change, that nigh expell...
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Hone and Cruikshank on Censorship, The Man in the Moon

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'The body of the people, I do think,      are loyal still,' But pray, My L—ds and G—tl—n,       don't shrink From exer...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Byron's "The Giaour" (ll. 387-409)

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Delacroix's famous image introduces one of Byron's most compelling poems. The passage below is a bit longer than most of the fe...
Sunday, September 26, 2010

Coleridge's "Dejection: An Ode," Stanza 4.

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O Lady! we receive but what we give, And in our life alone does Nature live: Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud! And would we augh...
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Sunday, July 18, 2010

Joanna Baillie, from "A Winter's Day"

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Strutting before, the cock leads forth his train, And chuckling near the barn-door 'mid the straw, Reminds the farmer of his morning...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

P. B. Shelley's Alastor, (lines 192-205)

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Roused by the shock he started from his trance— The cold white light of morning, the blue moon Low in the west, the clear and garish hills, ...