Session 1: Nature (Dec. 1)

We will read the following poems in class:

William Wordsworth

• "I wandered lonely as a cloud"
• "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour. July 13, 1798" (e.g., "Tintern Abbey")
• "The world is too much with us"

Percy Bysshe Shelley

• "Ode to the west wind"

William Blake

• "Auguries of innocence"

Other suggested readingss:

• Keats' "To Autumn"
• Shelley's "Mont Blanc"
• Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight"
• Wordsworth's Preface to Lyrical Ballads (excerpt)