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17 April 2026

B - ...when we got to the Early Romantics.

ESSENTIAL QUESTION: Why is it important to notice the shift in literature at the end of the enlightenment?

Learners posted their Pope-like epigrams and Johnson-style dictionary definitions to the digital whiteboard and offered their reactions to each other.

We spoke briefly about the shift in thinking at the end of the enlightenment and I assigned poems by Gray and Blake:

  • Anne & Aiesha - "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
  • Sarah - "Introduction" from Songs of Innocence
  • Alison - "The Lamb"
  • Azza - "The Tiger"
READ:
  • Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer
  • Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
  • Burns's "To A Mouse"
  • Blake's "The Lamb" and "The Tiger"
NEXT CLASS: The Pre-Romantics

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