Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe’s the Raven: Watch an Award-Winning Short Film That Modernizes Poe’s Classic Tale
Category: Romanticism and Rise of the Novel – Honors Literature
Literature from 1800 – 1855. Includes both American and British.
Charles Dickens – Tale of Two Cities
Charles Dickens wrote so many beautiful, enduring works that it is difficult to choose one to represent him on this site. Initially I chose “David Copperfield,” because it is most auto-biographical of Dickens, but...
John Keats and Diction
My Key to Keats: Beautiful Diction Percy Shelley, in the essay “A Defence of Poetry,” described a poet as “a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet...
How Do I Love Thee – Sonnet 43 – by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of being...
Alfred, Lord Tennyson – Now Sleeps
My Key to Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Diction to Evoke Mood In Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s poem Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, the diction of Tennyson is masterful, particularly the selection of words that connote a...
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