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GeneralThe Victorian Web (Brown U.) Literary Locales ~ See famous literary sites! (San Jose State U.) Representative Poetry Online - with notes and commentary, and background on poets (U. of Toronto) Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets The Victorian Literary Studies Archive. Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Graduate School of Languages and Cultures, Nagoya U., Japan. |
Introduction to Course and RomanticismFor extra background, look at Norton Anthology Web Site and Norton CD. Relevant terms in the Literary Terms section of Norton CD: allegory, convention and tradition, eulogy and elegy, fancy and imagination, genre, Gothic, irony, romance and novel, ode, pastoral, symbol. Sept. 1-8. William Blake ResourcesStudy Questions on Blake and Wordsworth Several Blake illustrations with helpful notes appear in Norton CD and Media Companion booklet, and a reading of Blake's "London." William Blake Online at Tate Gallery, London. Includes:
Tyger of Wrath: William Blake. Comprehensive web site for 1999 exhibit in The National Gallery of Victoria, Australia Blake Archive page with links to electronic versions of Songs of Innocence and Experience. This will lead you to illustrated (or illuminated) copies of the poems that are reproduced online. "Jerusalem." English song based on "And Did Those Feet." You can listen to it at links on this page.
Blake's
1795 picture of Newton in Wikipedia. Compare with attitudes
toward science and earlier philosophers in "Mock On, Mock On." Blake portraits and links, National Portrait Gallery, London Robert BurnsRobert Burns portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London Burns Country web site Robert Burns Centre, Dumfries, South West Scotland William WordsworthStudy Questions on Blake and Wordsworth (photo of Tintern Abbey on this page) See Turner painting of Tintern Abbey and picture of Grasmere in Norton CD and booklet. Wordsworth portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London Samuel Taylor ColeridgeSee section on Gothicism in Romantic period in Norton Anthology Web Site The Rime of the Ancient Mariner as illustrated by Gustave Dore: Illustrated text at UVA Electronic Text Center (also on reserve at library circulation desk) Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London (see also portraits of daughter Sara) John KeatsKeats House Museum web site, Hampstead Heath, London Arthur Hughes painting of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 1861-63 Walter Crane painting of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 1865 John William Waterhouse painting of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 1893 Henry Meynell Rheam painting of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (see also The Fairy Woods, 1903) Frank Dicksee painting of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 1902 Frank Madogen Cowper painting of "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" 1926 - also in Humanities web Portraits and links, National Portrait Gallery, London George Gordon, Lord ByronPortrait and Links, National Portrait Gallery, London Charlotte BronteBronte Sisters, Victorian novelists and poets: Portraits and links, National Portrait Gallery, London Mary ShelleyFrankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature: Exhibit (1997-98) web site at National Library of Medicine. Read the pages The Birth of Frankenstein and Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus and The Celluloid Monster. "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: Myth for Modern Man," essay by Patricia A. Neal, Ph.D., gives background on novel and film adaptations (pictures at bottom of page) A Frankenstein Study: Anatomy of a Story. Watershed Online web site, Winnipeg, Canada. Focuses on how the story treats personal relationships. Includes miscellaneous background in A Frankenstein FAQ. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in Art, Illustration and Sculpture. Links on a personal web page. Frankenstein: A New Reality! Italian web site with interesting pictures and literary connections. Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London Percy Byshhe ShelleyPortraits and links, National Portrait Gallery, London Alfred, Lord TennysonSee Moxon's Illustrated Tennyson on Norton Anthology web site in Victorian section, including paintings of "The Lady of Shallot" Arthur Hughes painting of "The Lady of Shallot" Sidney Meteyard painting of "The Lady of Shallot" Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London Tennyson's friend Arthur Henry Hallam in National Portrait Gallery, London The Tennyson Page with portraits and illustrations, by scholar Arthur Chandler Elizabeth Barrett BrowningPortrait and Links, National Portrait Gallery, London Robert BrowningPortrait and Links, National Portrait Gallery, London Lesson plan on Browning and "My Last Duchess," NEH Edsitement web site George EliotGeorge Eliot section of The Victorian Web George Eliot Country and Uncovering Eliot Photograph Archive, Coventry and Warwickshire. BBC.co.uk Article "George Eliot" by Virginia Woolf, 1919 Charles DickensPortraits and Links, National Portrait Gallery, London George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London Edward LearSee "The Owl and the Pussy Cat" at this link, with Lear's illustrations. Some background and other illustrations are given at http://www.the-office.com/bedtime-story/owlpussycat.htm. Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London Lewis CarrollLewis Carroll Home Page, Lewis Carroll Society Portraits at National Portrait Gallery web site, London. Portraits of Alice Liddell Video of Alice in Wonderland on reserve in Ferrum media center Christina RossettiPortraits, National Portrait Gallery, London Dante Gabriel RossettiPortraits and links, National Portrait Gallery, London William MorrisThe Beauty of Life: William Morris & The Art of Design. The Huntington Library, 2003-04 Portraits and Links, National Portrait Gallery, London Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'UrbervillesTess of the d'Urbervilles web pages with photos, in Thomas Hardy's World, web site with links to many types of background and pictures, by Dr. Suzanne Flynn, Prof. Patricia O'Hara, and Prof. Ashton Nichols. Tess of the d'Urbervilles. See photos and background on a musical adaptation of the novel. Portraits and links, National Portrait Gallery, London Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being ErnestPortrait and Links, National Portrait Gallery, London Rudyard KiplingVictorian novelist and poet Portrait and Links, National Portrait Gallery, London Victorian Web Rudyard Kipling pages, with illustrations by Kipling (link to Kipling's home) The Kipling Society Web site Other Portraits with Links at National Portrait Gallery web site, LondonWilliam Allingham, 19th-century poet Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer Matthew Arnold, Victorian poet Jane Austen, early 19th-century novelist, portraits and links Robert M. Ballantyne, Victorian adventure stories for boys William Barnes, Dorsetshire poet Samuel Butler, Victorian novelist Thomas Carlyle, Victorian essayist and historian John Clare, poet Arthur Hugh Clough, poet Wilkie Collins, Victorian novelist Dinah Maria Craik, novelist Charles Darwin, naturalist Thomas de Quincey, Romantic writer Alexander Dumas, French novelist Maria Edgeworth, novelist, children's stories Edward Fitzgerald, poet W. S. Gilbert, dramatist and librettist Lady Gregory, Irish playwright William Hazlitt, essayist and critic Thomas Hood, poet Gerard Manley Hopkins, Victorian poet A. E. Housman, poet Thomas Hughes, novelist and nonfiction writer Victor Hugo, French writer Richard Jefferies, novelist and naturalist Andrew Lang, fairy tale collector George Henry Lewes, essayist and critic Thomas Babington Macaulay, Victorian historian and essayist George Macdonald, Victorian fantasy writer Karl Marx, social theorist George Meredith, Victorian novelist, poet Maria Louisa Molesworth, children's writer Thomas Moore, poet Walter Pater, critic Beatrix Potter, writer-illustrator of children's books John Ruskin, Victorian social/art critic Sir Walter Scott, Scottish poet, novelist George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist Robert Southey, Romantic poet Robert Louis Stevenson, Victorian poet and novelist Algernon Charles Swinburne, poet Anne Taylor and Jane Taylor, children's poets William Makepeace Thackeray, Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope, Victorian novelist |
Stanley Library at Ferrum CollegeIn Stanley Library web site, go to Resources by Subject and then Language and Literature Resources, for links to reference books giving overviews of authors and illustrators, such as Contemporary Authors, and Literature Resource Center; also online books and other reference sources on literature are linked here. The MLA Bibliography, also available through this library page, is the major bibliography for languages and literature. Study Guides by Dr. Tina Hanlon:Guidelines for Proofreading: Marking Symbols and Terms for English Papers General Guidelines for Writing Literature Papers |
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