Category: 19thCLit

19thCLit, 21st Century Lit, 4 Quartets, Extra-Mural Teaching, Francis Webb, Grace IV: Contemplative Experience, Literature in Time and Space ENGL111, Literature: An Introduction, NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit, Poetry and Being, Poetry of Grace @ Aquinas, Poetry of Grace IV Contemplative Experience, SLA Conference, x Blogging

1000 Years of Poetry and the Contemplative Tradition

by michaelgriffith1 • October 8, 2022 • 0 Comments

England 2023: Overview Please join me on this pilgrimage which begins in July 2023. Find all the details at the following link: https://www.reho.com/bespoke-trips/1000-years-of-poetry-and-the-contemplative-tradition-england-2023/ The adventure begins in London on the site where Chaucer’s pilgrims set out in 1390. Next comes Canterbury, with its Cathedral, St Augustine’s Abbey, and its legacy of the martyrdom of Thomas Becket.…

19thCLit, 21st Century Lit, 4 Quartets, American Literature, Australian Literature, Exploring Literature (Clemente), Extra-Mural Teaching, Francis Webb, Literature in Time and Space ENGL111, Literature: An Introduction, Literature: An Introduction 2020, New York, Nineteenth, Nineteenth Century Literature Test, NSW Art Gallery, Oz Lit, Poetry of Grace @ Aquinas, Poetry Workshops, Reading Australia, Research and Writing, Rilke, Shakespeare Plus, The Sacred in Literature and the Arts, Twentieth Century Literature ENGL202, Visionary Blake, Visionary Imagination, William Blake, Wisdom, x Blogging

Greetings and farewell from A/Prof Michael Griffith (Literature: Strathfield)

by michaelgriffith1 • June 30, 2022 • 0 Comments

I am retiring after 45 years at ACU. While it certainly sounds a long time, I remember vividly my first days on Castle Hill Campus in 1977 and then the flow of new literature students, through Castle Hill, then Mount Saint Mary and occasionally MacKillop. Every year a wonderful crop of new faces, new enthusiasms!…

19thCLit, Nineteenth, Nineteenth Century Literature Test, x Blogging

Best Final Summative Blogs for Nineteenth Century Literature 2022

by michaelgriffith1 • June 11, 2022 • 0 Comments

Hi All, it is with some real joy that I can post up these final blogs from one of my last two classes (the other being The Age of Shakespeare). These summative entries proclaim loud and clear that the experience of blogging as part of literature studies has profoundly enhanced our students’ experience of literature.…

19thCLit, Nineteenth, Nineteenth Century Literature Test, x Blogging

Blog 3 Topics for Nineteenth Century Literature- due due Friday 29th April: extended to Monday 1st May

by michaelgriffith1 • April 26, 2022 • 0 Comments

Choose any ONE of the following topics: 1/How do the opening paragraphs of Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Poetry present a view that poetry could solve The Condition of England Question? 2/What makes Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” such a personal response to the loss of belief in Victorian England? 3/Prepare a digital kit on…

19thCLit, Nineteenth, NSW Art Gallery, x Blogging

Show and Tell 19th Century Literature Mid-Semester Blogs… See the best here… THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR AMAZING WORK…

by michaelgriffith1 • April 18, 2022 • 0 Comments

Thanks you Ashleigh for telling us how reading the Romantics has actually changed the way you live your life right now: Best blog on our Art Gallery visit. Thank you Tia for discovering an epiphanic moment in front of Eugene Von Guerard’s Fig Tree: How entering the Art Gallery is like entering the gates of…

19thCLit, Nineteenth Century Literature Test

Second Blog Topics for 19thC Literature 2022

by michaelgriffith1 • April 2, 2022 • 0 Comments

Second Blogs Topics for ENGL200 Nineteenth Century Literature 1/ Chose any one of the paintings you examined at the gallery yesterday. Copy an image of the painting and include it in your blog. Then describe the painting in detail and say how this painting has amplified your understanding of an aspect of 19th Century Literature.…

19thCLit, Nineteenth, Nineteenth Century Literature Test, x Blogging

First Blog Topics for 19th Century Literature 2022

by michaelgriffith1 • March 12, 2022 • 0 Comments

Try to stick close to the word length (i.e. 200 words + 50%). While you won’t be penalised for going over the limit you will only get marked on the permitted length. If possible illustrate your blogs (with images either your own or those available on Google), but be sure to identify the source of…

19thCLit, Nineteenth, Nineteenth Century Literature Test, x Blogging

Grand Finalé for Nineteenth Century ePortfolios for 2021.

by michaelgriffith1 • June 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

Best ePortfolio Summative Entries ENGL200 2021 Andrew Carloss Read Andrew’s fabulous reflection and powerfully illustrated piece on how we in this digital age need to take on board the insights of the Romantics and the Russians in order to survive as human beings! Read Emilee McNaught’s reflections on how her experience is mirrored in the…

19thCLit, Peer Rev., x Blogging

My review of Jenny’s Blog

by michaelgriffith1 • May 12, 2021 • 0 Comments

Here it is