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A Bird Came Down the Walk by Emily Dickinson


http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/emilydickinson/

Biography and poems

 

http://www.bartleby.com/113/

Poems

 

http://www.online-literature.com/dickinson/

Biography and poems

 

http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Dickinson/

Biography, essays etc

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/dickinson/section5.rhtml

Notes on poem (need to register)

 

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/bird.html

Poem and notes

 

A Parental Ode to my Son by Thomas Hood

 

http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/hood/

Biography and poems

 

http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=moa;idno=ABX8003

Poems

 

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Hood.html

Chronology and poems

 

http://www.2020site.org/poetry/th.html

Biography

 

http://www.newi.ac.uk/englishresources/workunits/ks4/poetry/thatoldrope.html

Teaching notes on the poem

 



Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

http://www.mcs.drexel.edu/~gbrandal/Illum_html/Hopkins.html

Biography

 

http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/hopkins/

Biography and poems

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hopkins/gmhov.html

Background on Hopkins from the Victorian Web

 

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/E309K/Hopkins1.html

Photos and paintings connected to Binsey Poplars

 

http://www.igreens.org.uk/binsey_poplars.htm

Background on the poem

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/hopkins/section6.rhtml

Poem and notes (need to register)

 

http://www.leavingcert.net/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=1063

Study notes

 

 

Break, Break, Break by Alfred Lord Tennyson

 

http://www.incompetech.com/authors/tennyson/

Biography

 

http://www.online-literature.com/tennyson/

Biography and poems

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/tennyov.html

Background on Tennyson from the Victorian Web

 

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2115.html

Text of poem with notes

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/tennyson/context.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/tennyson/analysis.html

Biography, themes and background

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/tennyson/kincaid/ch3.html#break

Critique of the poem



Death the Leveller by James Shirley

 

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc82.html

Biography

 

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16074a.htm

Biography

 

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/shirley/

Life, works, essays etc

 

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet299.html

Timeline

 

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/942.html

Poem and notes

 

http://iskrapentcheva.freeservers.com/shirley.html

Biography

 

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Shirley

Biography

 

My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

 

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem288.html

Poem and notes/critique

 

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/browning.htm

Biography

 

http://www.incompetech.com/authors/rbrowning/

Biography

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/browning/section3.rhtml

Notes on poem (need to register)

 

http://classiclit.about.com/library/weekly/aa080200a.htm

Notes on poem

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/rb/rbov.html

Background on Browning from the Victorian Web

 

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-mylastduchess/

Biography and notes on the poem

 

 

On the Tombs in Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

 

http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/beaumont001.html

Biography

 

http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/beaumont/

Biography and background

 

http://www.theatredatabase.com/17th_century/beaumont_and_fletcher_001.html

Biography

 

http://search.eb.com/shakespeare/micro/58/62.html

Biography


http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7057

Picture of Beaumont ’s tomb in Westminster Abbey

 

 

 

 

Remember by Christina Rossetti

 

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/rossetti.htm

Biography

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/crossetti/crov.html

Background on Rossetti from the Victorian Web

 

http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/ROSSETTIC.htm

Web links

 

http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/rossetti_c.htm

Poem and brief biography

 

http://www.enotes.com/remember/

Notes on poem

 

 

 

 

Remembrance by Emily Bronte

 

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/ebronte.htm

Biography

 

http://www.online-literature.com/bronte/

Biography

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/bronte/ebronte/ebronteov.html

Background on Bronte from the Victorian Web

 

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/Bronte-Emily-Chro.html

Timeline

 

http://www.idmon.freeserve.co.uk/broind.htm

Background and contemporary reviews

 

http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/BronteEmi/

Biography

 

http://www.bartleby.com/223/1206.html

Cambridge History criticism of poetry

 

http://www.schools.bedfordshire.gov.uk/gothic/works/emily_bronte_1818.htm

Biography and background

 

 

 

 

Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? by William Shakespeare

 

http://shakespeare.palomar.edu/

General site on Shakespeare

 

http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/clsc12.htm

Biography

 

http://www.bardweb.net/

Lots of links from the Shakespeare Resource Center

 

http://www.shakespeares-sonnets.com/xviiicomm.htm

Poem and commentary

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/

http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/shakesonnets/section2.rhtml

Poems, commentary, background etc

 

http://www.shakespeare-online.com/essays/essayssonnets.html

Essays on the sonnets

 

http://www.springfield.k12.il.us/schools/springfield/eliz/Sonnets.html

Background to the sonnets

 

 

 

 

The Burial of Sir John Moore by Charles Wolfe

 

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem2327.html

Poem and notes

 

http://www.napoleonguide.com/moore.htm

Biography of Sir John Moore

 

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hsmith/autobiography/harry-2.html

Autobiographical account of Corunna

 

http://www.bartleby.com/222/0538.html

Critique of Wolfe (rather difficult language)

 

http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/people/famousfirst1140.html

Biography of Sir John Moore

 

 

 


The Daffodils by William Wordsworth

 

http://www.wordsworth.org.uk/poetry/ww.htm

Biography and background

 

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/wordswor.htm

Biography

 

http://www.literatureclassics.com/authors/Wordsworth/

Biography

 

http://www.literatureclassics.com/essays/587/

Essay on ‘Daffodils’

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/ww/wwov.html

Background on Wordsworth from the Victorian Web

 

http://www.visitcumbria.com/daffodil.htm

Background to ‘Daffodils’

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/wordsworth/section7.rhtml

Commentary on the poem (need to register)

 

 

 

 

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

 

http://www.gettysburg.edu/academics/english/hardy/main.html

Biography, background on poetry etc

 

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/thardy.htm

Biography

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/hardy/hardyov.html

Background on Hardy from the Victorian Web

 

http://unix.cc.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/wby/Cardiff.Hardy.html

Critique of the poem (very verbose)

 

http://www.elimae.com/essays/renner/thrushes.html

Another critique

 

http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/Authors/about_thomas_hardy.html

Biography

 

 

 

 

To Autumn by John Keats

 

http://www.john-keats.com/

Biography, poems etc

 

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/keats.html

Biography, manuscripts etc

 

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poem1136.html

Poem and notes

 

http://www.online-literature.com/keats/

Biography

 

http://www.literaryhistory.com/19thC/KEATS.htm

Links

 

http://www.incompetech.com/authors/keats/

Biography

 

http://www.victorianweb.org/previctorian/keats/keatsov.html

Background on Keats from the Victorian Web

 

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/nation/jb_nation_keats_2.html

Background to the poem

 

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/autumn.html

Commentary on the poem

 

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/keats/context.html

http://www.sparknotes.com/poetry/keats/section3.rhtml

Context and commentary

 

 

 

 

Upon my Son Samuel his going for England by Ann Bradstreet

 

http://eir.library.utoronto.ca/rpo/display/poet27.html

Selected poetry

 

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/webtexts/Bradstreet/

Biography and general notes

 

http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/bassr/heath/syllabuild/iguide/bradstre.html

Advice for teaching

 

http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/campbell/enl310/bradstreetnot.htm

Notes

 

http://www2.worldbook.com/features/whm/html/whm060.html

Brief biography

 

http://www.go-newfocus.co.uk/articles/annbradstreet.htm

Biography and background

 

http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/eng384/bradbio.htm

Biography



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