English Literature

Week 25

Please read:

Historical background, pp. 543-547.

After you have finished reading the historical survey, please take the background quiz for the unit.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese, sel.:

• Sonnet 1, p. 549.
• Sonnet 28, p. 549.
• Sonnet 43, p. 549.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “The Lady of Shalott”, pp. 552-555.
• “Ulysses”, pp. 555-556.
• In Memoriam, sel., pp. 559-561.
• “The Passing of Arthur” (from Idylls of the King), pp. 563-570.
• “The Kraken”, p. 572.
• “Tears, Idle Tears”, p. 572.
• “Crossing the Bar”, pp. 572-573.

Robert Browning

• “Porphyria's Lover”, pp. 594-595.
• “My Last Duchess”, pp. 595-596.
• “Prospice”, pp. 596-597.

Please take the background quiz on Unit VI.