Romantic Poetry (1798-1832) and The Regency (1812-1830)
Poets and Poems in Elements of Literature Text
(Group 1)
(Group 4)
William Blake
The Tyger pg 721
The Lamb pg 723
The Chimney Sweeper pg 727
A Poison Tree pg 731
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias pg 803
Ode to the West Wind pg 806
To a Skylark pg 849
(Group 5)
(Group 2)
William Wordsworth
…Tintern Abbey pg 736
Composed upon Westminster Bridge
pg 744
John Keats
On First Looking… pg 826
When I Have Fears pg 827
Ode to a Nightingale pg 831
Ode on a Grecian Urn pg 836
(Group 6)
The World Is Too Much with Us
Pg 746
from Ode pg 846
Robert Burns
To a Mouse pg 841
To a Louse pg 843
(Group 3 )
(Group 7)
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan pg 759
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner pg 765
George Gordon, Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty pg 795
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage pg797
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox
Hunting to Whist: The Facts of Daily Life in 19th Century England
Group 1: Introduction and The Basics pgs 1-29
Group 2: The Public World, The Major Rituals pgs 30-84
Group 3: Money, Power and the Establishment pgs 85-140
Group 4: Transition pgs 141-152
Group 5: The Country pgs 153-178
Group 6:The Private World pgs 179-232
Group 7: The Grim World pgs 233-255
Each group will read the assigned selections, research using the books
and/or other sources and
 prepare a summary of the most interesting facts garnered from
your section in the What Jane Austen Knew… book
 write a brief biography of your poet
 provide an explication of 1 (if long) or 2 (if short) poems
 write a brief explanation detailing how the poem(s) exemplify
the Romantic or Regency Era
 present the information to the class
Each group will create a Prezi with the highlights of the information
presented. After your Prezi is complete, export it to a PDF document and
post it to the wiki under British Culture > Romantic Poets > Your poet so
each student will have a complete profile of the Regency Era and Romantic
poets.
Each Prezi should contain
 your group members’ first names
 the name of your poet and section of the What…book
 highlights of important facts from the book
_____ 20 pts
 your poet’s portrait and other interesting,
related pictures, videos, etc.
_____ 20 pts
 highlights of the poet’s biography
_____ 20 pts
 highlights of explication—theme,
prominent literary devices, etc.
_____ 20 pts
 brief exemplification of Romantic/Regency Era
_____ 20 pts
**Post Prezi PDFs to the Wiki and be ready to present on WEDNESDAY**