"Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher." —William Wordsworth from "the Tables Turned" Check out the Additional Questions, Hot Links, Internet Activities, and Self-Tests for this unit using the navigation bar at the left.

PART 1: FANTASY AND REALITY
Comparing Literary Works
Robert Burns	To a Mouse	Poem	626
	To a Louse	Poem	629
Joanna Baillie	Woo'd and Married and A'	Poem	632
Comparing Literary Works
William Blake	The Lamb	Poem	640
	The Tyger	Poem	641
	The Chimney Sweeper	Poem	643
	Infant Sorrow	Poem	644
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	Introduction to Frankenstein	Nonfiction	650
PART 2: FOCUS ON LITERARY FORMS: LYRIC POETRY
Comparing Literary Works
William Wordsworth	Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey	Poem	666
	from The Prelude	Poem	672
	The World Is Too Much with Us	Poem	675
	London, 1802	Poem	676
Comparing Literary Works
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	The Rime of the Ancient Mariner	Poem	686
	Kubla Khan	Poem	710
Comparing Literary Works
George Gordon, Lord Byron	She Walks in Beauty	Poem	718
	from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Apostrophe to the Ocean	Poem	720
	from Don Juan	Poem	724
Comparing Literary Works
Percy Bysshe Shelley	Ozymandias	Poem	732
	Ode to the West Wind	Poem	734
	To a Skylark	Poem	737
Comparing Literary Works
John Keats	On First Looking into Chapman's Homer	Poem	746
	When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be	Poem	748
	Ode to a Nightingale	Poem	750
	Ode on a Grecian Urn	Poem	754
PART 3: THE REACTION TO SOCIETY'S ILLS
Comparing Literary Works
George Gordon, Lord Byron	Speech to Parliament: In Defense of the Lower Classes	Speech	768
Percy Bysshe Shelley	A Song: "Men of England"	Poem	771
Thomas Babington Macaulay	On the Passing of the Reform Bill	Nonfiction	772
Comparing Literary Works
Jane Austen	On Making an Agreeable Marriage	Nonfiction	780
Mary Wollstonecraft	from A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	Nonfiction	784