THE VICTORIAN PERIOD READINGS
Your assignment is to read the textbook selections in the Victorian Period. The textbook readings include the information about authors and all the questions and corresponding information. The Victorian Period is a period of great writers and interesting literature that we enjoy to this day!
1. As you read these selections, INITIAL the appropriate space on the chart and enter the date you completed the reading for the selection. Remember to always read all the questions and other information for each. Read thoughtfully! Enjoy!
2. Write your responses for each reading on the chart and after you have finished the response for each, INITIAL the appropriate space and enter the date. Write meaningful responses!
3. Draw a vertical line down the page where the *’s to make columns.
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THE SELECTION * Read * Date * Chart *Date
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1. Victorian Period introduction
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2. Thomas Carlyle Bio.
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3. “On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic—“
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4. “The Hero as Divinity”
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5. “The Hero as Poet”
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6. John Henry Newman Bio.
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7. “The Tamworth Reading Room”
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8. Alfred, Lord Tennyson Bio.
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9. “The Poet”
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10. “In Memorian”
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11. Morte d’Arthur
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12. “Ulysses”
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13. “The Lady of Shalott” (class handout)
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14. “Crossing the Bar
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THE SELECTION Read Date Chart Date
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15. Robert Browning Bio.
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16. “Prospice”
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17. “Home Thoughts From Abroad”
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18. Matthew Arnold Bio.
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19. “Dover Beach”
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20. Christina Rossetti Bio.
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21. “Long Barren”
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22. “Uphill”
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23. Lewis Carroll Bio.
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24. from Alice in Wonderland
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25. from Through the Looking Glass
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26. Thomas Hardy Bio.
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27. “The Darkling Thrush”
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28. “The Respectable Burgher”
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29. “The Three Strangers”
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30. Gerald Manley Hopkins Bio.
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31. “Pied Beauty”
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32. “God’s Grandeur”
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33. A. E. Housman Bio.
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34. “When I Was One-And-Twenty”
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35. “To an Athlete Dying Young”
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THE SELECTION Read Date Chart Date
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36. “Eight O’clock”
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37. “They Say My Verse is Sad”
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38. Francis Thompson Bio.
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39. “The Kingdom of God”
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40. Rudyard Kipling Bio.
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41. “The Cnversion of Aurelian McGoggin”
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42. “Recessional” (A Link on our Website!)
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