BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE CRITICAL PAPER

Due Date: 11-20-08

♦Choose from one of the works below or from teacher-approved selection of Romantic literature,

and develop a 6-8 page critical response (conference-paper length). Focus in your paper on any

original motif, theme, or idea that strikes you as you read. Read critically and creatively, marking passages you might later wish to use (motifs, symbols, elements of style, any pertinent or interesting details that might serve your eventual thesis). Remember to assert, illustrate, and analyze as you develop the essay. You are encouraged to consult critical sources to enhance and justify your assertions about the work (see MLA on-line bibliography--at least one source must come from the MLA electronic bibliography). Be sure to GIVE CREDIT AND CITE SOURCE WHEN YOU BORROW IDEAS OR WORDS. If you use another's words or ideas without making the proper citation, you have plagiarized, and the grade on the paper will be a 0--possibly you will fail the course.

Your grade will be determined by the quality and originality of your ideas and by the clarity and quality of your expression of those ideas (i.e. writing style and mechanics).

Baillie, Joanna. Plays of Passion

Blake, William. The Book of Thel, Urizen, The Four Zoas

Blair, Robert. “The Grave”

Burke, Edmund. Reflections on the Revolution in France

Burns, Robert. Poetry

Byron, George Gordon. Manfred, "The Vision of Judgment," Beppo, Cain\

Chatterton, Tomas. Rowley Poems

Clare, John. Poetry

Coleridge, S. T. "Christabel"

Cowper, William. The Task

Godwin, William. Caleb Williams, St. Leon

Goldsmith, Oliver. “The Deserted Village”

Gray, Thomas. “Elegy Written in a Country Church-yard,” The Bard

Hemans, Felicia. Poetry

Hood, Thomas. "Ode: Autumn" or Selected Poetry

Keats, John. Endymion, "Isabella," Lamia

Lamb, Charles. "Christ's Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago"

Landor, Walter Savage. Imaginary Conversations

Lewis, Matthew Gregory. The Monk

Mitford, Mary. Rienzi, "Our Village"

Paine, Thomas. Rights of Man

Peacock, Thomas Love. Nightmare Abbey, Headlong Hall, Crotchet Castle

Percey, Thomas Bishop. Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

Radcliffe, Anne. The Italian, The Mysteries of Udolpho, Romance of the Forest

Scott, Sir Walter. Ivanhoe, Waverley, The Bride of Lammermoor, Old Mortality, Rob Roy, The Heart of Midlothian, Marmion, The Lady of the Lake

Shelley, Mary. The Last Man, Valperga, Perkin Warbeck, Lodore, Falkner

Shelley, Percy. Prometheus Unbound, Alastor, “Adonais,” Queen Mab

Norton, Caroline Sheridan. Lost and Saved

Smith, Charlotte. Old Manor House, Emmeline, Desmond

Young, Edward. Night Thoughts

Wollstonecraft, Mary. Mary, A Fiction, Maria, Letters from Norway . . .

Wordsworth, Dorothy. Letters, The Grasmere Journals

Wordsworth, William. "Michael," "The Ruined Cottage"