The Pre-Romantics: Poems for Discussion

Below you will find links to some of the poems we will be discussing in class for the next couple of weeks.  Also, make sure you've studied any other poems by Gray, Burns, and Blake (in that order) in your books.

This is good stuff.

Robert Burns

Poems to read by Robert Burns:

"To A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With My Plough" (Find and paraphrase the line that inspired the title of a John Steinbeck novel.)

"A Red, Red Rose"

"John Anderson, My Jo"

"To A Louse"

William Blake

To see a world in a grain of sand

And a heaven in a wild flower,

Hold infinity in the palm of your hand

And eternity in an hour.

"The Tyger"

"The Lamb"

"The Chimney Sweeper"

the other "The Chimney Sweeper"

"London"

"Jerusalem"

"A Poison Tree"

"The Clod and the Pebble"

Thomas Gray

Here is the link to "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard."