Author Archives: Emory Weingart

If I had the opportunity to teach anything from this course to any grade level of my choosing I would teach “Lucy Gray” by William Wordsworth in a High School English Class. I would teach this piece during a unit structured around either poetry or creative writing because I believe it would help my studentsContinue reading “Teaching “Lucy Gray””

Even though “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” by Robert Louis Stevenson may not be seen as realistic, it holds many qualities that are often found in works of Victorian Realism. Victorian Realism was a response against Romanticism to show how life truly was, and even though “The Strange Case of Dr.Continue reading “Victorian Realism: “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde””

During our class discussion, we analyzed the characters found in Northanger Abbey and listed some of their defining characteristics. After evaluating John Thorpe, our class came up with rude, possessive, arrogant, aggressive, manipulative, and a drunk as some of the deciding factors of his temperament.  Of course, Thorpe isn’t trying to thwart Catherine or tieContinue reading “The Villainous John Thorpe of Northanger Abbey”

The “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” by William Wordsworth is a stepping stone for poetry in the Romanticism era. This preface covers many characteristics that should be held by lyrical ballads; such as relatability to the reader, commonly used casual language, and the ability to evoke emotion with said simplistic language by bringing “more enthusiasm andContinue reading ““Preface of Lyrical Ballads” Compared to “Lucy Gray””