ENGL 106, Spring, 2013, Dr. Harnett
Week 3 Class Notes, page 1
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Announcements:
 SI meets today from 12:30-1:30 in SR 324. Focus is on the
development of support for insights through examples.
 See the website for updated class notes, announcements, and
course materials.
 Sign up for Recitations this week. See me for help with your
selection.
 Other?
 Questions?
Quiz, DC Chapters 13-16.
Readings For Today:
Wordsworth, continued at
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-wordsworth#about
o “Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early
Childhood”
o Assignment: Trace the movement of emotions through the poem.
Write them in a series of statements with quotes and citations of
line numbers.
Selections from Lyrical Ballads:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/william-wordsworth#about
“Lines Written In Early Spring”;
“Expostulation and Reply”
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/expostulation-and-reply/
“The Tables Turned”;
“Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey”;
“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”;
“My Heart Leaps Up” http://www.bartleby.com/106/286.html
Other Poems: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/williamwordsworth#about
o “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge”
o “London, 1802”;
o “The World is Too Much With Us.”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge biography at
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/stc/bio.html
poems at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/samuel-taylorcoleridge#about
o “The Eolian Harp”;
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
http://www.bartleby.com/101/549.html
ENGL 106, Spring, 2013, Dr. Harnett
Week 3 Class Notes, page 2
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/151/151-h/151-h.htm (also at
http://theotherpages.org/poems/coler01.html, including Coleridge’s
margin notations). Note that this poem opens Wordsworth and
Coleridge’s book Lyrical Ballads (1798, though it appears later in the 1800
edition), viewed by many as a landmark of the Romantic movement in
literature. Wordsworth wrote the vast majority of the poems in that book
(which is surprisingly small); Coleridge wrote only 4 of the poems in the
collection: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “The Nightingale,” “The
Foster-Mother’s Tale,” and “Love.” Analyze and give examples of:
o Meanings—summarize the 7 Parts
o Emotions
o Signs of Romanticism (refer to .ppt on Romanticism—see
website under Course Materials)
o “Kubla Khan”;
o “Frost at Midnight”;
o “Dejection: An Ode”;
o “Epitaph” at http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/coleridge.htm
Poems and links—consider meanings, literary devices, and
effects, again paying attention especially to emotions:
o Note other poems, such as the early poem “A Mathematical
Problem” and his “Review” in a letter to Wordsworth
Writing Exercise—Write your own notes for future reference and
hand in one set for the group.
Compare and contrast to Wordsworth’s “Intimations” ode to
Coleridge’s “Dejection” ode, focusing especially on emotions and/or other
effects on the reader.
For Next Time:
Read David Copperfield, Chapters 17-20 and be ready for a quiz.
Wordsworth and Coleridge, Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (1798).
Note: The Preface is lengthy. Recommended: Read other poems and
items in the book, such as the Advertisement on page 121.
http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/cudp/pubs/ballads/ballads.pdf If this link
doesn’t open, read the 1802 Preface at this site:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/lbprose.html.
George Gordon, Lord Byron. Brief biographical information
http://englishhistory.net/byron/life.html
o “She Walks in Beauty” http://www.bartleby.com/101/600.html
o see other poems by Byron—recommended.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron#about
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Announcements:
See me if you are behind on readings or need help in any way.
Other announcements?
ENGL 106, Spring, 2013, Dr. Harnett
Week 3 Class Notes, page 3
Clark Library: Friday, May 24
Huntington Library:
Questions?
Quiz, Chapters 17-20 of David Copperfield.

Uriah Heep:
o The Biblical Uriah information at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uriah_the_Hittite
o Basis of Uriah’s character: see Chapter 15, 229n (954)—Thomas
Powell at
http://www.charlesdickensonline.com/Gallery/g322.htm
Wordsworth and Coleridge, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (1798)
http://www.clemson.edu/cedp/cudp/pubs/ballads/ballads.pdf and
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/lbprose.html (1802)
1. What is “good poetry,” according to Wordsworth in this Preface?
Provide his exact words defining “good poetry,” and explain
what he means precisely. Note the role of feelings and emotions,
in both the poet and reader.
2. What other significant ideas does the Preface present? Explain
specifically.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge biography at
http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/stc/bio.html
poems at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/samuel-taylorcoleridge#about
1. “The Eolian Harp”;
“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
http://www.bartleby.com/101/549.html
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/151/151-h/151-h.htm (also at
http://theotherpages.org/poems/coler01.html, including Coleridge’s
margin notations). Note that this poem opens Wordsworth and
Coleridge’s book Lyrical Ballads (1798, though it appears later in the 1800
edition), viewed by many as a landmark of the Romantic movement in
literature. Wordsworth wrote the vast majority of the poems in that book
(which is surprisingly small); Coleridge wrote only 4 of the poems in the
collection: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” “The Nightingale,” “The
Foster-Mother’s Tale,” and “Love.” Analyze and give examples of:
1. Meanings—summarize the 7 Parts
 What are the main things that happen in the story
that the Mariner tells?
 What is the significance of the Albatross? How is
the Mariner affected by what he does to it?
ENGL 106, Spring, 2013, Dr. Harnett
Week 3 Class Notes, page 4
What is the significance of the story being framed
by the Mariner telling his story to the Wedding
Guests, right as the wedding they are supposed to
attend is beginning?
 What moral(s) is (are) apparent in the poem?
2. Emotions
3. Signs of Romanticism (refer to .ppt on Romanticism—see
website under Course Materials)
 “Kubla Khan”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/samuel-taylorcoleridge#about
 “Frost at Midnight”;
 “Dejection: An Ode”;
 “Epitaph” at http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/coleridge.htm
[An Additional Writing Exercise—Write your own notes of points
and supporting examples.
Compare and contrast to Wordsworth’s “Intimations” ode to
Coleridge’s “Dejection” ode, focusing especially on emotions and/or other
effects on the reader.]

George Noel Gordon, Lord Byron. Brief biography at
http://www.gale.cengage.com/free_resources/poets/bio/byron_l.htm
Pictures at
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lord_Byron_coloured_
drawing.png and these also:
“She Walks in Beauty” http://www.bartleby.com/101/600.html
o see other poems by Byron:
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/lord-byron#about
Selected Other Poems:
“Stanzas Written on the Road Between Florence and Pisa”
http://www.online-literature.com/byron/702/
ENGL 106, Spring, 2013, Dr. Harnett
Week 3 Class Notes, page 5
Don Juan (Canto I—excerpt)
http://www2.bc.cc.ca.us/gdumler/Older%20Classes/English%205B/Poe
ms/byron_don_juan_excerpts.htm Note how the rhyme and meter
indicate how “Don Juan” is pronounced. Notice Byron’s satire and
comic effects.
“Prometheus”
http://www.english.upenn.edu/Projects/knarf/Byron/prom.html
Questions about these readings by Byron:
o What themes does Byron address in these poems? Note: a
theme is a message, a moral, or an idea that dominates a work.
You state your interpretation of a theme as a claim to prove, so
it’s better to say that a theme of “She Walks in Beauty” is that
darkness can be beautiful and inspiring, rather than saying that
the theme of the poem is darkness and inspiration. Give an
example to support your assertions for each poem we discuss.
o How does Wordsworth and Coleridge’s definition of “good poetry”
apply to selected poems by Byron, as far as you can tell? Note
that Byron has been called a “second-generation Romantic,” and
that he was the most prolific of the Romantic poets.
o How do Byron’s subject-matter and approach differ from those of
the other Romantic poets that we have read so far? That is, how
would you recognize Byron as opposed to, say, Wordsworth or
Coleridge?
For Next Time:
Read Dickens, Chapters 21-24. Percy Bysshe Shelley. “Ode to the West Wind”
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174401. Other Readings: Shelley,
“Ozymandias”; “England in 1819”; “The Indian Girl’s Song”; “To a Sky-Lark”; “A
Lament” [“O World, O Life, O Time”]; “Dirge”
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Dirge_(Shelley) ; Excerpt from Prometheus Unbound
(lines 1-73).