Photo of Thomas Carlyle (1870), Albumen print on carte-de-visite

~The Victorian Period~

Tuesday, March 31st: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, March 30th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Thomas Carlyle, from Past and Present: “Midas,” “Democracy,” and “Captains of Industry” (BABL B: 632-635, 640-646, 646-650)

Literary Terms: non-fiction prose

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Engraving September, 1859, by Macaire Havre, engraving by T. O. Barlow.

Thursday, April 2nd: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 1st at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “The Cry of the Children” (BABL B 786-788)

Tennyson,  “Ulysses” (BABL B 830-831)

Literary Terms: dramatic monologue/persona poem/dramatic poem

Tuesday, April 7th: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 6th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Robert Browning, “Porphyria’s Lover” (BABL B 910)

Browning, “Fra Lippo Lippi” (BABL B 920-925)

Literary terms: dramatic monologue/persona poem/dramatic poem

George Richmond (1851)

Thursday, April 9th: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 8th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Elizabeth Gaskell, “The Manchester Marriage” (BABL B 893-907)

Literary Terms: short story

~The Turn of the Twentieth Century~

Tuesday, April 14th: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 13th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush” and “Channel Firing” (BABL B 1092-1093, 1095-1096)

Gerard Manley Hopkins, “God’s Grandeur” (BABL B 1102)

~World War I~

Soldiers in the trenches on the southern section of Gallipoli Peninsula during World War I. The men belong to the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

Thursday, April 16th: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 15th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Wifred Owen, “A Terre” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” (BABL B 1346-1347, 1350

Siegfried Sassoon, Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (BABL B 1338-1340)

Isaac Rosenberg, “Break of Day in the Trenches” (BABL B 1342)

Literary Terms: stanza, lyric

~Modernism~

Tuesday, April 21st: Writing Prompt Response due by Monday, April 20th at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Virginia Woolf, “Modern Fiction” (BABL B 1399-1403)

Woolf, “Kew Gardens” (BABL B 1391-1394)

Literary Terms: modernism, stream-of-consciousness

Don’t forget to evaluate the course!

~Post-Colonial Writing~

Rose Hall in Jamaica

Thursday, April 23rd: Writing Prompt Response due by Wednesday, April 22nd at 5:00pm. Link to Writing Prompts.

Derek Walcott, “Ruins of a Great House” (BABL B 1701-1702)

Seamus Heaney, “Digging” (BABL B 1712)

Grace Nichols, “Epilogue” (BABL B 1821)

Moniza Alvi, “How the World Split in Two” (BABL B 1825)

Jackie Kay, “In My Country” (BABL B 1830)

Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire, “Backwards” (BABL B 1835)

Literary Terms: allusion, free verse, lyric poetry

Don’t forget to evaluate the course!

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Revisions to first essay due on Tuesday, April 28th, via electronic submission by 9:00pm

Second Essay due on Monday, May 4th, via electronic submission by 9:00pm. Essay Description and Writing Prompts.