Session 3: Religion, Politics, and Spirituality (Dec. 8)

Prepare for class by reading the following:

William Wordsworth

• "Ode: Intimations of immortality from recollections of early childhood"

William Blake

• Infant joy
• Infant sorrow
• The garden of love
• Holy Thursday
• London
• The tyger

John Keats

• Excerpt of letter to George and Georgiana Keats (Feb. 14, 1819)

Other suggested poems:

• Blake's "The clod and the pebble," "The chimney sweeper," and "The garden of love"
• Shelley's "Ozymandias"
• Keats' "When I have fears that I may cease to be"