Not quite free recording of Middlemarch

I have just purchased, via iTunes, an audiobook of Middlemarch being read by Sutekh (from a storyline in Doctor Who--in case you hadn't all confirmed my great nerdiness by now), better known as Gabriel Woolf, for roughly $2. The recording quality isn't excellent, but it's less than half what I paid for lunch today, and I need to burn through this book faster, because once again I find that I'm having a hard time oncentrating on it. The entire recording time is about 31 hours. I figure I can get through that fairly well, given that I spent about that this weekend drawing maps for a project in another class.

So if you're like me and comprehend more when listening while you read and have two bucks to spare (which is a STEAL for audiobooks!), I highly recommend checking it out.

Lady of Shalott

painting by John Waterhouse

So, today in class, we discussed "The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

I found some pictures, tacky websites, and a song on youtube by Loreena McKennit that I couldn't upload here. (but the link is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MU_Tn-HxULM).

this one's not Pre-Raphaelite, but it's interesting....

websites:

1. Works derived from "The Lady of Shalott" -by people who think about the poem a lot. http://homepage.mac.com/mseffie/assignments/shalott/derivatives.html

2. Funny picture of The Lady riding a banana instead of a boat: http://www.limpfish.com/pics/46/

3. A website all about the Victorian age. http://www.victorianweb.org/

4. A really tacky website about the poem complete with midi music in the background: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/7303/shallot.htm

5. Apparently, there's going to be a film : http://www.theladyofshalott.co.uk/newsite/new%20index.html


It's interesting how obsessed people can get with this poem.

So Quiet!

Yeesh, you take a midterm, get a day off, and everyone gets all quiet!

Let's talk Dickens. How's it going for everyone? Anyone have the uncontrollable urge to punch any characters yet?

I'm actually surprised by how much I'm not hating this book. I am, ehem, not a fan of Dickens, but this is the least painful book I've read by him yet! One or two small characters have been downright likable!

(Sorry if anyone here love Dickens :P)

Form terms for Blake

Hello all!

I'm reviewing notes and annotations and trying to come up with at least four terms for each piece. I'm stuck on Blake's prose pieces, though. I cannot for the life of me remember what the form of "There is No Natural Religion" and "All Religions are One" is called! I'm driven almost to distraction.

Any other terms for the other prose pieces (Keats' letters?) would also be much appreciated.

pop quiz.

What trope (or figure of speech) is at work in Line 30, The Tables Turned.

I'm a nerd. And whoever answers this is as well. Brooke? Anyone?

Tintern Abbey Audio

You must listen to this. Sit back relax and do it.

One more light-hearted link

The poem Oksana mentioned in class Wednesday, "Dover Bitch."

To lighten your studies

While everyone is worrying over Wordsworth, trying to recall the themes of each poem, and counting out beats to see if it's tetrameter, I thought we might lighten the mood a bit with this Wordsworth parody:

A Wordsworthian Nursery Rhyme

If you've grown up with Mother Goose rhymes, you should laugh when you figure out what the author is doing :) It is followed by "An Argument with Wordsworth."

Taken from this lovely website: Wordsworth.org.uk

Oscar Wilde Quote/relevant

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

Nothing to do with class, but......

Hey everybody!

I'm doing this photo project and I was wondering if I could get anyone to get their picture taken with their favorite word? Or a few words that describe yourself. It's sort of literal and conceptual. For example, my friend Casey's word is "F**ck!" and I'm going to set up a scenario where she would use her word and take a picture of it. And my friend Mayalin's words are "energetic" and "talkative"- so I'm going to be using some props like her running shoes and a telephone.

So, if anyone's interested, please email me! I would be so grateful! I'll give you a copy of my prints!

Sarah Kim - elephantsnake@hotmail.com

And good luck everybody on the test!

study group today!!!

There will a study group today at the DVC library from 12 to 5. Feel free to come at any time!

We'll hopefully have a room but I don't know which ones it will be. Call or text me at (925) 588-9303 to say you're coming and so I can tell you where to go.

See you there!

Study Group!!

Hey all!!

Anybody interested in a study group(s) this weekend can email me at oyurovsky@gmail.com

I'm currently planning a study session based on those who got back to me... I'll post the date, place, and time of that when I get it figure out...

Happy studying! ;)

Poems and other things discussed in class (Who knows, maybe Mr. Hurley can clarify if there are any mistakes, uhhh ummm)\

Potential Poems on Midterm: (I would compare these with Brooke's post)

Alexander Pope (handout) 18C

· An Essay on Criticism

· An Essay on Man

Thomas Gray (handout)18C

· Elegy in a Country Courtyard

Samuel Johnson (handout) 18C

From “the Preface to Shakespeare”


Blake-(romantic period) Songs of Innocence and Experience


· All Religions are One 79-81

· There is No Natural Religion 80


· Songs of Innocence—81

o Introduction 81

o The Lamb 83

o The Little Black Boy 84

o Chimney Sweeper 85

· Songs of Experience 87

o Introduction 87

o The Chimney Sweeper 90

o The Tyger

o London 94

The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

o The Voice of the Devil 112-113

o Proverbs of Hell 113 (the road of excess leads to the power of wisdom)

Preface to Lyrical Ballads 262

What is a poet? 269

Wordsworth (Romantic Period)

· We are seven (part of Lyrical Ballads 248 )story Poem.

· Lines Written in Early Spring 250

· Expostulation and Reply 250

· The Tables Turned 251

· Tintern Abby 258-262 (Lines1 258 (Tintern Abby) (ln 23) (entirety)

· My Heart Leaps Up 306

· Ode: Intimations of Immortality 307

S 2 page 308

S 5 309

S 8

S 9

S 10

· To Toussaint l’ Ouverture 318

· Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways 320

· The Prelude 322-389

o Pg 324

o Pg 325

o Pg 330

§ Lines 269, 301

Pg 332, 338 344, 362, 364, 374, 377

· Preface to Lyrical Ballads 262-274(263 264 266 269 273)

· From Lyrical Ballads 274—317

· Sonnets 317

Samuel David Coleridge 424 intro (Romantic)—

§ The Eolian Harp 426

§ Rime of the Ancient Mariner—430-446

§ Biographia Literaria 474-491

John Keats—(Romantic)878-880 (ekphrasis) Writing about an artwork

· On seeing the Elgin Marbles 883

· On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer 880

· The Eve of St Agnes 888 (ambiguous ending)

· La Belle Dame sans Merci (A Ballad) 899(internal Dialogue happening)

· Ode to a Nightingale 903-905

· Ode on a Grecian Urn 905-906

· From letters 942-943 George and Thomas Keats-----John Hamilton Reynolds, To Richard Woodhouse

Some help on that request below

I don't have much in my notes either. See comments for a critique pulled from DVC's literature resource center.

That link is here for future reference.

Click the Literature Resource Center(top with red star) and login using your student ID.

Questions on Wordsworth's poem

Hi everyone, I'm wondering if anyone knows what's the "significance" about Wordsworth's poems "Expostulation and Rely" and "The Tables Turned"?

I tried to search my notes but found out I had nothing to offer for these two poems.

STUDY GROUP TODAY!! Wednesday 3/11

LIBRARY, ROOM: 207

RESERVED 1-4PM

See you there.

Read in class

As far as my notes, annotations, and memory serve me, these are the readings we've done in class:

• Alexander Pope (all excerpts in handout) - An Essay on Man, An Essay on Criticism
• Thomas Gray (in handout) - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
• Samuel Johnson (excerpt in handout) - "The Preface to Shakespeare"
• William Blake - "All Religions Are One," From Songs of Innocence: "Introduction," "The Lamb," "The Little Black Boy," "The Chimney Sweeper." (Note: I don't recall if this was discussed or not. Anyone?) From Songs of Experience: "Introduction," "The Chimney Sweeper," "The Tyger," "London," "A Poison Tree." Very briefly, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (not on the reading list).
• William Wordsworth - "We Are Seven," "Lines Written in Early Spring," "Expostulation and Reply," "The Tables Turned," "Tintern Abbey" (technically called "Lines"), "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "My Heart Leaps Up," "Ode" (Intimations of Immortality), "Steamboats, Viaducts, and Railways," "The Prelude."
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "The Eolian Harp," "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Kubla Khan" (first day of class--will not be on exam), Biographia Literaria.
• John Keats - "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," "On Seeing the Elegin Marbles," "The Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame sans Merci," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on a Grecian Urn." Letters: To George and Thomas Keats (negative capability), To John Hamilton Reynolds (Wordsworth's Poetry), To Richard Woodhouse (A poet has no identity).

Let me know of any errors or ommisions, and I'll update accordingly. Also, if anyone noted which stanzas and sections exactly we read of the longer works, I'll be forever indebted. I didn't write them down, and I can't always recall which notes were done in a class and which out.

Literary terms

Well, I meant to post today the full list of terms we should have looked up, but when I went to compile the list, I discovered that all but three of my homework assignment handouts are missing! This is all very alarming, as I tend not to remove them unless I'm immediately referencing what I'm supposed to read. So here is a very abbreviated version of the list:

Jan. 26 to Feb. 4 - neoclassicism, wit, heroic couplet, meter, elegy, romanticism, Romantic Period in English Literature, quatrain, rhyme, rhyme scheme, lyric, ballad, verse, prose.

Feb. 9 to Feb. 18 - form, structure, style, diction, poetic diction, verse, prose, ode, sonnet, the sublime, imagination.

Feb. 23 to March 4 - Theoretical criticism, practical criticism, medievalism (under medieval), aestheticism, aesthetics, Spenserian stanza.

March 9 to March 18 - negative capability

Anyone care to help fill in gaps? I can then edit to add the other terms here, so we have a full list of terms posted in one place. Next up, all the works we read in class and thus may be on the exam.

EDIT: Okay, I have found one more page. I am still missing at least one!

Midterm Preparation Study Group?

Hi all!

Since the midterm is coming up on the 16th, I was wondering if anybody wants to form a study group to help prepare for it? All of those interested could meet in one group or we can separate into smaller groups, depending one everyone's schedules and locations. It'll be fun!
Maybe I'll make zucchini bread...!

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

I think looking at John Keat's original manuscript of "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" might be interesting.