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.)
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
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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