Romantic Poetry
British Literature
Name:
Date:
Romantic Poetry Unit
Reading Assignments
Come prepared to discuss each poet below on the date specified. When you arrive,
you should have the following complete:
 Read the biography for the poet
 Read the listed poems
 Annotate the poem for structure and devices
 Identify the poem’s meaning and Romantic themes
Assigned Poet
Selected Poems
Due Date
Burns
“A Red, Red Rose”
“Auld Lang Syne”
“The Lamb”
“The Tyger”
“The World is Too Much With Us”
“Nuns Fret Not”
“Kubla Khan”
“The Knight’s Tomb”
“She Walks in Beauty”
Don Juan selection
“Ozymandias”
“The Indian Serenade”
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
“Bright Star”
Wed., April 4
Blake
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Byron
Shelley
Keats
Essay due
Unit Test
Wed., April 4
Tues., April 10
Tues., April 10
Wed., April 11
Wed., April 11
Thurs., April 12
Fri., April 13, by
7:30 a.m. on TurnItIn
Mon., April 16
You will have the following assignments as part of this unit:
 Two quizzes
 Three dialectical journals (poems in bold, plus one of your choice)
 Mini-essay (see due date above)
 Culminating unit test (see date above)
Remember that all take-home assignments and due dates are available on Ms. Cook’s
webpage – losing a document is not an excuse for not being prepared!