Some Selected Class Notes

from my American Lit and English Lit survey classes -- Gale Price.

(Yes, this reflects what I do as an allegedly gainful occupation and what I subject my students to.)

Definition of Romanticism

Contextual Definition of Nature

William Blake's "Ah, Sun-flower" analysis -- outline

Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not Stop for Death" analysis -- outline

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Kubla Khan" analysis -- outline

Emily Bronte's "The Night Wind" analysis -- outline

Sample comparison paper: Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind" and Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn"

Thoreau and the Transcendentalists -- notes and outline

very brief Transcendentalist overview

Emerson's "American Scholar" notes

Thoreau Essentials and Trivia

Walden notes 1

Walden notes 2

Walden notes 3

Walden notes 4

Walden notes 5

Civil Disobedience notes

Sample analysis paper on Robert Frost's "Birches"

Ernest Hemingway's "The Snows of Kilimanjaro" classnotes

Bernard Malamud's "The Magic Barrel" classnotes

The Beat Generation (added 1-31-2004)

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