English Literature Database: Periods and Culture

Online Resources (1)

Medieval Lyrics & Ballads

 Mostly Medieval

The Ballad of Barbara Allen, etc. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8woUkSu7FBs&playnext=1&list=PLD50B9EF32C633F6C

Medieval Manor - British Social History - Changing Lives - 1066-1984 on Timelines.tv  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NASCj4YcHDQ

16th Century Poetry

Shakespeare

1. Sonnet 116 “Let me not to the marriage...” (646)          

2. *Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" (756)

3. * the courting sonnet from Romeo & Juliet 

4. Video: Shakespeare in Love

Youtube--William Shakespeare: Background for His Works (clip)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xHer6dO0eE 

William Shakespeare - Brief and Naughty!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGATTeg1Os

1. paraphrase and analysis  

2. Youtube--David Gilmour sings Sonnet 18 ; reading with images; reading

4. Romeo & Juliet -- e-text (with modern version), SparkNotes (summary & analysis)

1. 17th Century Poetry

2. Donne  “The Flea” (712)

3. Donne "Valediction: Forbidden Mourning" (1013)

4. Donne “Death, Be Not Proud” (1012)

5. Marvel “To His Coy Mistress” (713)

6. Related Film: Wit

1. Six Centuries of Verse: Metaphysical & Devotional Poets (YouTube; 5:09 Holy Sonnets 10)

2. The Flea -- reading (by Richard Burton), performed, animation,  another animation, Analysis

3. A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning reading (by Richard Burton), a short lecture  

4. 'Death Be Not Proud' by John Donne. Performed by Julian Glover, another reading,   annotation and analysis

5. “To His Coy Mistress” reading, dramatization, commentary (YouTube)

18th Century Poetry (Poetic Criticism)

Pope “Sound and Sense” from Essay on Criticism (776)

Related Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Orlando

Restoration and the 18th Century

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLpeUJt7aVE

Alexander Pope
"Sound and Sense" reading (YouTube); Analysis

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
　

Romantic Poetry

Blake “The Sick Rose” (767) “London” (658) 

* Wordsworth “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”

Keats “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1033; ref. 918)

*---.  “La Belle Dame sans Merci”

*---. "Bright Star"

Related Film: Bright Star

 1. London reading, Analysis, performed, images and performance

2. "Tyger" sung; read with music

3. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" reading, Dorothy's journal,

4. La Belle Dame sans merci reading, study guide

Romantic Poetry

*Shelley “Ozymandias”

Victorian Dramatic Monologue

Browning “My Last Duchess” (1009)

Tennyson “Ulysses” (928) 

 Romanticism and British Literature

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJnTTlgjVso

 "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning (poetry reading)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZxq3r7TlHo

Frankenstein