Poems and Places
Imagined landscapes in British Romantic Poetry

Welcome to Poems and Places, Homepage of the Romantic Literature unit for Mr. Martin's English 12 classes at Torrey Pines High School. This page contains links to the unit syllabi for all three of Mr. Martin's English 12 sections, to on-line editions of all the prose and poetry covered in the unit, and to a range of contextual information for students working on the unit. Visitors from other schools who are interested in implementing this curriculum unit should visit the "Curriculum Modules" area of Romantic Circles High School for information about the unit and its implementation.

The purpose of this unit is to provide you with a general knowledge of British Romantic Era poetry and to help you hone your knowledge of poetic form and structure. The unit makes substantial use of the internet both as an information resource and as a space for students to compose and post their assigned work. On the first day of the unit, each of you will be assinged an access account to the Villa Diodati, an on-line virtual world, where you will find a specially built classroom area just for our use. In addition to the information on this page, you will find a great deal of important and useful information in the virtual classroom. Because on-line resources and activities play such an important role in the completion of this unit, it is important those of you who do not have internet access at home keep track of the unit schedule and plan your schedules accordingly so that you can do your homework in the computer labs on campus. "I couldn't get on-line from home" will not be accepted as an excuse for not completing assigned work on time.

Section Syllabi Use the links below to find a detailed schedule of reading, Class-work, homework, and project due dates for your section. Periods One and Five Period 2

Electronic Editions The following is an electronic collection of the poetry and prose covered in this unit. William Blake "The Tyger" and "The Lamb" (1789-1794) S.T. Coleridge "This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison" (1797) "Frost at Midnight" (1798) "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere" (1798) John Keats "Ode on a Grecian Urn" (1820) "Ode to a Nightingale" (1820) from "Epistle to John Hamilton Reynolds" (28 March 1818) Percy Shelley "Ode to the West Wind" (1820) Dorothy Wordsworth Excerpt from Grasmere Journal, 15 April 1802 William Wordsworth "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" (1807) "Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey" (1798)

Information Resources The following is a list of links to a wide variety of information about romanticism, romantic era history and culture, and the individual authors and works that are covered in this unit. General Resources Romantic Circles Voice of the Shuttle Romantics Page Romanticism on the Net Chronologies The Romantic Chronology Coleridge Time-Line The Shelley Chronology British History, 1689-1901 Historical Contexts British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution Summary of the French Revolution The French Revolution Home Page The Britannia History Page The Life of Industrial Workers in 19th Century England Lectures on the Industrial Revolution in England Art British Art and the Origins of Modern Childhood The Regency Portrait Page The Eugene Delecroix Page The William Blake Archive Visionary Painters Art Collection from Around 1800 18th Century Art Links 19th Century Art Links Music 18th Century Music Links 19th Century Music Links Contemporary Culture British Culture, 1660-1830 The Regency Fashion Page Science and Philosophy A Romantic Natural History Pre-History of Cognitive Science Charles Babbage's Calculating Machine The Science Museum, London Works and Authors William Blake's Life Romantic Anger and Byron's Curse Biography of John Keats British Library Keats Exhibition Biography of Percy Shelley Biography of Byron Biography of W. Wordsworth