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Today’s Agenda

Today’s Agenda. Explain homework for next class. Go over highlights of Arnold’s “Dover Beach” (reminder : Victorian challenges to faith, Poet Laureate Tennyson & his famous elegy) Student Presentations : Isabel De Santiago: Christina Rossetti’s biography Catalina Perez: Victorian fashion

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Today’s Agenda

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  1. Today’s Agenda • Explain homework for next class. • Go over highlights of Arnold’s “Dover Beach” • (reminder : Victorian challenges to faith, Poet Laureate Tennyson & his famous elegy) • Student Presentations: • Isabel De Santiago: Christina Rossetti’s biography • Catalina Perez: Victorian fashion • PowerPoint Presentation on “Victoria’s Secret” – Secrecy & Repression • Browning’s “My Last Duchess” • The Dramatic Monologue (a contrast to Romantic expression) • (Holding Back, Hiding, and Cover-Ups in Victorian Literature & Society) • Examples in the work of Christina Rossetti

  2. Homework for next class • Read: Gerard Manley Hopkins (pp. 1513-16): “God’s Grandeur” (p. 1516), “The Windhover” (p. 1518), “Pied Beauty” (p. 1518); Oscar Wilde (pp. 1686-87): “Impression du Matin” (pp. 1687-88), “The Harlot’s House” (pp. 1688-89), from De Profundis (pp. 1740-43) • Reading Response: Do one of the responses on Wilde / Hopkins • Quiz next class. It’s mainly on the poems covered in class last class and today (Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, and Rossetti), but know also the headnotes in NA. Know the titles of poems; given key quotes highlighted in class, you’ll need to name their author or the poem they come from. • Student Presentations Next Class: • Carrie Gendle--Gerard Manley Hopkins’ biography • Emily Sterner--Oscar Wilde’s biography -------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Essay #2 (on Frankenstein) will be due Thursday, April 4th. • Read the prompt and rubric, both posted online.

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