Block Day, Week 22

* Open

• Review notes

* Perrine's Poetry Ch. 1-2 Quiz

* When you finish, begin reading The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.

• If you are home: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner .pdf (or the book in class)
• Mark anything you find confusing.  I will answer any question in a while.

* I will check work while you read.

* Review the Senior Project some more. 

* Review Perrine's

* The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Background
• 18th Century in Brief
• Rational (further influence of Greek and Latin learning)
• Poets become more wits; perfectly clever, social, sophisticated
• The rise of journalism (and coffee shops): Samuel Johnson and the dictionary
• The novel "new"
• Some say Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (1719)
• Some say Tom Jones by Henry Fielding (1749)
• Whatever the case, we will see a growing emphasis on character development and the average person. 
  
• Romantic Era  (1800-1850)
• "During the spring of 1798, two young English poets, aged 27 and  25, sold some of their poems to raise money for a trip to Germany.  Each had published books of poetry, but a new joint work was to  be anonymous. As Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the younger of the  pair, told the printer: 'Wordsworth’s name is nothing . . . mine
  stinks.' "  So begins the printing of Lyrical Ballads (within which Rime of the Ancient Mariner is published).  
• Reaction again the mechanized, industrialized, socially cold and austere, spiritually dead urban world.
• Listen
• When finished: Let's begin questioning Rime with questions from Perrine.

HW: None (Winter Ball...but in the future, you will have outside reading on the weekend)