Today’s Agenda

1. Today’s Agenda • Explain homework for next class. Return Quizzes. • Student Presentation: Areille Saymo-Lord Alfred Tennyson’s biography • PowerPoint Presentation on Tennyson’s “Tears, Idle Tears” • Tennyson as a Victorian popularizing and building upon the Romantic tradition. • PowerPoint Presentation on Science, Creation, and Literature (circa 1790-1860) • PowerPoint Presentation on Tennyson’s In Memoriam • Literature in response to Darwinian challenges to faith • Student Presentation: Andrew Inman--Matthew Arnold’s biography • Go over highlights of Arnold’s “Dover Beach”

2. Homework for next class • Read: Robert Browning (pp. 1248-52): “Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister” (pp. 1253-54), “My Last Duchess” (pp. 1255-56); Christina Rossetti (pp. 1459-60): “Song” (p. 1461), “After Death,” (p. 1461), “In an Artist’s Studio” (p. 1463), “Winter: My Secret” (p. 1464), “Up-Hill” (p. 1465) • Reading Response: Do one of the responses on either Browning or Rossetti. • No Quiz next class. The next one is scheduled for next Thursday. • Student Presentations Next Class: • Isabel De Santiago: Christina Rossetti’s biography • Catalina Perez: Victorian fashion --------------------------------------------------------------------------- • Essay #2 (on Frankenstein) will be due Thursday, April 4th. • Read the prompt and rubric, both posted online.