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...Donelle Ruwe This article introduces a roundtable on teaching long poems by British women writers, presented as a special session at the 2014 Modern Language Association conference in Chicago. The articles in the roundtable provide teaching strategies that are pertinent to the writers under review...

...Stephen Behrendt Caroline Bowles's long narrative poem Ellen Fitzarthur (1820) offers a seduction tale reminiscent of Amelia Opie's The Father and Daughter (1801), tracing the seduction of a cloistered young woman by an unscrupulous military sailor taken in by Ellen's widower father after...

...Linda K. Hughes This article addresses the teaching of Amy Levy's “Xantippe” (1880), a poem 279 lines long, in an upper-division survey of British literature from 1800 to the present focused on life stories. Though the poem is short enough to be read in a single sitting, it is also long enough...

... course on gothic and supernatural literature, this article elucidates how placing it in the context of other, better-known Gothic texts significantly enhances students' appreciation of this long poem by helping to illuminate the most puzzling aspects of Landon's narrative. This approach implicitly...

...Florence S. Boos At 10,938 lines, Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh would seem unsuited for the present-day classroom, with its focus on short, simple texts adapted for readers with little experience of long poems. Yet it teaches quite readily and, indeed, is often a student favorite...

... romantic lyric student response multimodal approaches bird sounds apostrophe long poem spatial mapping auditory design Works Cited Abrams M. H. 1984 . The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism . New York : Norton . Culler Jonathan . 2014 . “Lyric, History...

... and Heinle . Mole Tom . 2014 . “ Romantic Long Poems in Victorian Anthologies .” In British Romanticism: Criticism and Debates , ed. Canuel Mark , 625 – 34 . New York : Routledge . ...

... studying more of the Cantos, it will also recall the numerous Chinese characters and references to dynasties scat- tered throughout the long poem. The Benin highlight links to a picture of an African mask, which illuminates Pound s perception of the black G.I. who built a table for the poet to write...

... as with the long poems of the canonical males. And speaking of the canonical males, Fay strikes an important cau- tionary note when she mentions the looming threat for students of the Grad- uate Record Examination (GRE) subject test (Linkin 2001: 98). One of the essential techniques for teaching these poets...

... for us to listen to one another, to share our sense of the novel and of what is broken within the injustice system, and to collectively hope, then, for something better. We collectively chose not to attempt to create a long poem that tells one coherent story. This was not only for practical reasons...

... to commit to long poems.) And that is just taking into consideration the Confessio Amantis. To teach Gower — really to teach him as a whole writer of multiplicitous voices as well as three languages — it is necessary to offer students the full sweep of his poetry. This means going even further...

... writing a long-winded response to an already rather long-winded poem, they were forced to prioritize, synthesize, condense, and abstract. The “teachers” in the group had assured their classmates that the concept behind the drawing was more important than the quality of the artwork; rough...

..., and David Kalstone, eds. 1966 . Beginning with Poems: An Anthology . New York: W. W. Norton. Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 1960 [1837]. “The American Scholar.” In Selections from Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Organic Anthology , ed. Stephen E. Whicher, 63 -80. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. Frost, Robert. 1960...

... know that Talmud manuscripts with unique and important alternative readings were also destroyed. Thus, the modern study of this foundational text has been impoverished by that thirteenth-­century act. Because this poem is so long, I will not quote it all. It begins...

..., if it becomes what we’re “supposed to do” with a poem, if it becomes simply another way of turning poetry into homework, then we really haven’t gained that much. Not long ago I worked up a less intimidating version of the prosody exercises, designed for a lower-­division poetry course that draws...

... , edited by Bean Heidi R. Chasar Mike , 1 – 13 . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press . Bialostosky Don . 2006 . “ Should College English Be Close Reading? ” College English 69 , no. 2 : 111 – 16 . Bialostosky Don . 2017 . How to Play a Poem . Pittsburgh...

...David Watt This article describes a single class devoted to an experiment in practical criticism. The experiment encourages students to recognize their own capacity as close readers when interpreting an unfamiliar fifteenth-century poem by Thomas Hoccleve. It also encourages students to reflect...

... images referenced here may be found on the British Library’s website at www .bl.uk/romantics-­and-­victorians/articles/an-­introduction-­to-­in-­memoriam. Erik Gray (2004a) provides a corrective to the long-­standing tradition of calling the poem “In Memoriam A.H.H.” by helpfully...

... elegiac “Lucy poems” about a dead beloved (“Strange Fits of Pas- sion I Have Known,” “Song” [She dwelt among th’untrodden ways], “Three Years She Grew in Sun and Shower,” “A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal,” and “I Travell’d among Unknown Men In the first lyric a speaker describes a day long past when...

..., in preparation of the reader for the appearance of the fantastic monster, Dante names the Commedia for the first time and claims the poem as his: Faced with the truth which seems a lie, a man should always close his lips as long as he can —  to tell it shames him, even though he’s blameless; but here...