Hi All, there have been some outstanding blogs on aspects of the 19th Century. This is a wonderful start to your blogging for this unit! I thought I would share with you a range of the creatively exciting posts by members of our group. Thank you all for your terrific efforts here. This proves to…
Tag: Wordsworth
The Art Gallery of NSW with Nineteenth Century Literature Students.
What a blast to be given the opportunity to try to link literary themes to artistic expression in the visual arts!. I think I learnt as much as the students! Perhaps the most important insight of the morning is the extent to which Romanticism as expressed through early Australian art, gives such a powerful vision…
Unacknowledged Legislators!
Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the World. Shelley was clearly moved to declare that poets had a fundamentally important role in the world, reminding humans about things that really mattered, beyond the entrapments of material possessions. So what was it that Shelley was so deeply drawn towards? If we look at the opening sentences…
Week Two Summer/ Autumn: Tintern Abbey
Wordsworth in his poem “Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” (Norton 288) offers a powerful insight into the state of mind that meditating on and in nature produced in him. Clearly what he describes in the following lines is the substance of what he tries to tell his friend in the poem “Expostulation…
Great Start to Semester One
Hi All, I am not sure whether to call this autumn or summer semester! We are having the best summer for a long time and we are well into Autumn! Global warming??? At all events we have had a fabulous start to the semester in all literature units. The one blog topic for this week…
