Month: February 2015

Shakespeare and the Renaissance: Week 1 2015

by michaelgriffith1 • February 27, 2015 • 0 Comments

Elizabeth the First’s poem “On Monsieur’s Departure” shows well how literature of the Renaissance was so often deeply concerned with the inner workings of the human soul. The rich texture of the language, dramatising her conflicted nature in loving the French Duke of Anjou, draws the reader in to her effort to understand by describing…

Bush Walking, Nineteenth

Nineteenth Century (Romanticism and Victorianism) Week 1

by michaelgriffith1 • February 24, 2015 • 0 Comments

William Blake’s “The Garden of Love” and William Wordsworth’s two poems “Expostulation and Reply” and “The Tables Turned” provided a real gateway into some of the central insights of the Romantic Movement: their disaffection with mere book learning, with conventional morality and their belief in the power of nature and the resources of childhood to vanquish the…

Bush Walking, Literature: An Introduction, Nineteenth, Shakespeare Plus, x Blogging

Autumn Semester 2015

by michaelgriffith1 • February 19, 2015 • 4 Comments

Hi All, I am looking forward very much to working with you in all of the following units: Nineteenth Century Literature (ENGL200); Shakespeare & The Renaissance (ENGL210); Introduction to Literature (Clemente- Mission Australia Students, ENGL104); Learning in the Community (HUMA247)and (ARTS232). This is the space where I will be posting my weekly reflections on our…