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British Literature download, Oroonoko by Aphra Behn A work of prose…

- - - - "The Miller's Tale" by Chaucer Part of "The Canterbury Tales", a frame narrative that gave status to English language literature for the first time. Pilgrim travelers each tell stories to pass the time, after the Knight, the Miller (drunkerd) tells a Fablieu (comedic, course, short story that typically flips the paradime of chivary, romance, good/evil on their head). Miller is here considered the voice of the everyday person who want less conventional morality.
        
        Henry IV by Shakespeare Playwright that truly goes into the psyche of the characters. Part two in a four-part series of plays centering on British monarchs. We find England embroiled in unrest (much like the England in the time of Shakespeare writing) Civil War rages on but the Prince(Hal) is still playing games with the fun-loving drunkerd Falstaff, a knight who believes little in the machinations of honor or virtue. Hal must choose if he will step up to his birthright and face off against the hotheaded hotspur in battle. Hal is sometimes considered a Machiavel in his political maneuvering, but the play is really centered on each character's different opinion on English honor and the road one must take to come into themselves. Sililoque and dramatic monologue are very important for allowing the audience to get into the head of character's and understand their opinions.
        
        Sonnets by Shakespeare “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” Shakespearean sonnet scheme became the most common in English poetry. This poem is about a man outside of social graces who is saved only by the thought of his beloved. Shakespeare liked to concentrate on interesting psychological characters, such as this one here.
- - - - "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" and "I wandered lonely as a cloud" by Wordsworth Here again, in his sonnets as well as his longer poetry, we can see Wordsworth's reliance on nature as the great healer of his own societal woes. In "a vacant or pensive mood, they flash upon that inward eye" and fills his sullen heart with pleasure. This is the essence of Lyrical Romantic poetry, subjective and filled with personal thought and feeling.
        
        "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways" by Elizabeth Barrett-Browning This piece almost at times feels like a call back to the love sonnets of Shakespeare or others in the Mideviel or renneisaince period, primarily in its sole concentration on the fits of love that come during admiration, but with the heights and expanse of feeling brought about by Romance writers. EBB was very popular in her day, even more so than her husband Robert Browning whom the poem is written to. The couple would elope to Italy to marry against parental will. There, despite near perpetual illness through her life, it is believed her health was helped due to the temperate climate.
    - - "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by Keats A poem ordered in ballad quatrain stanza's about a sullen knight who is forlorn by a femme fatale "fairy" in a grassy field. A call back to a late-Medeivel French poem by the same name. Shows the possibility of more in-depth storytelling potential for Romantic poetry concentrated on subjective thoughts and feeling.
        
        "Ulysses" by Tennyson Tennyson's Ulysses is often cited as first use of dramatic monologue in poetry, allowing for an altered perspective as the narrator of these stories, here being the Greek hero Odysseus. We find the Trojan War hero at home and dissatisfied with civilian life. He decides a new pursuit at sea is the only way for a worthwhile life, and subjective sentiments allow the audience to decide if this is admiral of the old king or simply delusional.
        
        Porphyria's Lover; My Last Duchess by Robert Browning With Browning, we continue to see an increasingly more melancholic and dark practition of Romantic evocation. It feels closer to elegy than lyric in nature, and for good reason. In both these poems, we have an unreliable male storyteller (dramatic monologue) who speaks on deeds that end in the death of women close to them. It allows us to get into the head of the potentially deranged in a way poetry had sparcely seen before.
- - - - "Repression of War Experience" by Sassoon Stream of consciousness poem that allows us to follow the thoughts of a former soldier who now sits "safely" at home. Everything reminds him of war, so he looks for anything to keep his mind off. Says it is those who never went to war that are the most dark hearted.