Summary

Ideal for high school and college students, this eBook presents essay topics that provide research and writing suggestions on a range of poems from pre-1800 British literature. These topics are designed to inspire students to think critically, delve deeper, and ask (and answer) fresh new questions. 

The works covered include:

• The Canterbury Tales
• "Death Be Not Proud"
• The Faerie Queene
• "The Flea"
• Holy Sonnets
• "The Lamb"
• "London"
• "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd"
• Paradise Lost
• "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"
• "The Rape of the Lock"
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience
• "Tintern Abbey" and the Lyrical Ballads
• "To a Mouse"
• "To His Coy Mistress"
• "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"
• "The Tyger"
• "A Valediction Forbidding Mourning"

Specifications

eBook

About the Author(s)

Robert C. Evans is a professor of English at Auburn University at Montgomery. He is the author or coauthor of many books, including Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Patronage, Short Fiction: A Critical Companion, Kate Chopin's Short Fiction, and many more. He is also the editor of the third volume in Facts On File's Student's Encyclopedia of Great American Writers and the author of Facts On File's Culture and Society in Shakespeare's Day and Literature and the Theater in Shakespeare's Day.