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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Sounds of the Sonnet

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"Sound Experiments" drive this lesson plan. Sonnet analysis is accompanied by readings based on specific emotions. At this website, there are several links full-text sonnets by such authors as Shakespeare, Lord Byron, Longfellow, and...
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Website
University of Pennsylvania

U. Penn: Notes on "Lyrical Ballads"

For Students 9th - 10th
This etext is the original notes, preface, and advertisment for the book "Lyrical Ballads," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth.
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eBook
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Lyrical Ballads (1798)

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto features the complete text of Wordsworth's and Coleridge's "Lyrical Ballads". It includes Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" and Wordsworth's "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern...
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Primary
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto has links to 39 poems written by Percy Shelley, with line-by-line notes for each work. A section of biographical information is provided.
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eBook
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Selected Poetry of Lord Byron

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Toronto provides the texts for several poems by Lord Byron, with line-by-line notes.
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Activity
University of Toronto (Canada)

University of Toronto: Samuel Taylor Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th
This University of Toronto site provides information on Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The text of some of his works is provided.
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Primary
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Complete Poetical Works: Percy Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides links to all of Percy Shelley's poetry, with a search function. It also offers notes at the beginning of each work.
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eBook
University of Virginia

University of Virginia: William Wordsworth, "Lyrical Ballads"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the University of Virginia provides the text to the book of poems "Lyrical Ballads," featuring the work of Coleridge and Wordsworth.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: The Romantic Revival Byron

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the life and works of Byron and several other Romantic-era writers is offered at this site, with links to critical analyses of these works.
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Handout
Bartleby

Bartleby.com: Cambridge History of Eng and Am Lit: The Romantic Revival: Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site has links to literary criticism of selected poems by Percy Shelley and other Romantic-era poets and writers.
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Website
Other

Byron: A Comprehensive Study of His Life and Work

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides biographical information about Byron, a chronology of works, the text of his works and other good references.
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eBook
Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit by Coleridge

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The complete text of this literary work is available to download or read online in multiple digital formats.
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Website
University of California

University of California: British Women Romantic Poets

For Students 9th - 10th
Don't miss out on learning more about the female poets of the British Romantic Period. This University of California Davis site provides links to text and information on British women poets of the Romantic Era, many of which are unknown...
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University of Houston

University of Houston: English Romanticism

For Students 9th - 10th
This webite on English Romanticism by Elizabeth Whitney focuses on the Romantic period including defining Romanticism, the history and politics, the Romantic poets, visual arts, and music. It also offers a link to the radio program "The...
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Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
The personal life and writing career of Percy Bysshe Shelly is chronicled in this encyclopedia article. Content includes information on his childhood, his marriage to Mary Shelley, his writings, and his tragic death.
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Website
Other

The Alchemical Drama of Goethe's Faust

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay, written by Adam McLean, contains a synopsis of "Faust" as well as a critical discussion which emphasizes the work's alchemical themes.
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Website
Other

The Keats Shelley House: Percy Bysshe Shelley

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a biography of English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. It contains quotes from some of his most famous works.
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eBook
Other

"Shelley" by Sydney Waterlow

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers the complete text of an e-book on Percy Shelley. It contains an in-depth analysis of the poet's life and works, along with hyperlinked definitions from the Encyclopedia of the Self.
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Handout
Other

Incompetech: Samuel Taylor "Estese" Coleridge 1772 1834

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a biography of the Romantic age poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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eBook
Other

Selfknowledge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from SelfKnowlege.com provides the text of "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Coleridge, with notes. It also has several links to information on Coleridge.
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Website
Authors Calendar

Author's Calendar: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a biography of Goethe, a brief discussion of his most famous work, "Faust," and a list of the many versions of this work. Also includes a bibliography.
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Website
Other

Dickenson College: Percy Bysshe Shelley on Nature

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides an evaluation about Shelley's relationship to the natural world, as is evident in his writing, is offered here along with other links to information about the poet
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Other

Dickenson College: George Gordon, Lord Byron

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers an analysis of Byron's interpretation of the natural world, as evident in his writings.
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Other

Gefunden/johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

For Students 9th - 10th
A translation of Goethe's poem "Gefunden" accompanied by interpretive music and artwork.