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The Call-For-Paper article that I found is “The Treatment of nature by romantic poets”. It discusses the Romantic Era poets who were lovers and admirers of nature. Among these were Keats, Wordsworth, and Percy Shelley Bysshe. Since my paper will be about poets of the Romantic Era and their poetry, I chose an article whichContinue reading “Poets and Poetry”

I haven’t got it all figured out yet, but thanks to my discussion with Dr. Gates ( thanks so much for the talk), I think I finally have an idea about what I will write about. My paper will be on the rural side of living. The country seems to hold a fascination for me.Continue reading “My Final Paper: Ideas and Decisions”

The Elegiac Sonnets written by Charlotte Smith uses nature to express her complex emotions. Just like in the case of Reginald St. Leon, she had to come to the rescue of her family after her husband, Benjamin, chose to continue to live way “beyond his means”. His father obviously knew of the problem and wouldContinue reading ““Elegiac Sonnets””

Wordsworth reigns today as one of the top Romantic Era poets. Sometimes, poetry can be confusing and difficult to read like Wordsworth’s Preface but by using the language of the peasant poets, Michael: A Pastoral Poem, becomes a very down-to-earth and endearing poem. This type of transitioning shows how talented William Wordsworth really was. ThereContinue reading “Wordsworth and the Peasant Poets?”

The first 50 lines of Wordsworth’s poem, The Prelude, sounds like he is answering someone’s question. He does speak of prophecy in these lines, “Even in the very words which I have here /Recorded: to the open fields I told/ A prophecy:…”(Balfour 117). This poem is about his life; he wrote it over a periodContinue reading “Voices, Nature, and the Common People”

The Prelude is an autobiographical poem which explores Wordsworth’s life. His descriptions of nature interest me a lot because I love nature. This poem traces the growth of the poet’s mind by stressing the mutual consciousness and spiritual communion between the worlds of nature and man. In the course of the poem, literal journeys becomeContinue reading “Growing in Nature”

While reading from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads, I found it very interesting that William Wordsworth published this text as an experiment and he continually defers to the readers interests. He wasn’t sure whether he would please or displease his readers and seemed that he was surprised to learn “that I have pleased a greaterContinue reading “Wordsworth and Michael”

Godwin’s story pf St. Leon raised many questions for me but I will narrow it down to just a couple. Is the death of Marguerite St. Leon an allusion to the death of Mary Wollstonecraft, wife of William Godwin? There is a distinct possibility that could have been a contributing factor to the way theContinue reading

If it weren’t for the secret and the stranger, who knows whether Reginald St. Leon would have ever kicked his habit of addiction or continued to make poor choices. Godwin in “Political Justice, Magical Science and Harry Potter”, “argues against the idea of punishment as a corrective against vice:…” (p. 407). How many times wasContinue reading “The Philosopher’s Stone Revisited”

It would seem that whatever Reginald St. Leon does with the secret that he has been given, his efforts put him into trouble. The biggest and most noted question seems to be, where has he gotten all the money that he throws around?” From the Middle Ages until the late 17th century, the most soughtContinue reading “The Philosopher’s Stone Folly”