Reason and Emotion
The course which makes me have my nose in old literature for great length of time goes on. I love this course, even though I which we had more time to read. Right now there's a little less though, so I shan't complain any more.
For the past couple of weeks I have read:
The Age of Reason (American literature)
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson - A political text I think is quite famous [Interesting to actually read all of it!]
Common Sense by Thomas Paine - A pamphlet [Quite funny at times]
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano (read one chapter) - Slave narrative [Sad of course]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (selected chapters) - Slave narrative [Lots of misery, but the style is easier to read than Equiano's. I had also read this before, like ten years ago or so.]
Romanticism (British Literature)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (read the introduction) - Considered by many to be one of the first feminist works. [You know, I kind of agree to the idea that a woman is human and also has a mind and character and should have an education...]
"The Chimney Sweeper; When My Mother Died I Was Very Young" by William Blake - Poetry [Rather sad, but you might have guessed that from the title...]
"Infant Joy" by William Blake - Poetry [Short and sweet. One I already knew.]
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13 1798" by William Wordsworth (lines 1-111) - Poetry [Long title. Long Poem. Interesting to discuss.]
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poetry [apparently he was high on opium when he wrote this, which might explain why it is somewhat difficult to understand. Some parts were really pretty though; I loved the sentence "And here were forrests ancient as the hills".]
And to make this post look more interesting, I add a little friend I met a while ago:
For the past couple of weeks I have read:
The Age of Reason (American literature)
The Declaration of Independence by Thomas Jefferson - A political text I think is quite famous [Interesting to actually read all of it!]
Common Sense by Thomas Paine - A pamphlet [Quite funny at times]
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African by Olaudah Equiano (read one chapter) - Slave narrative [Sad of course]
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs (selected chapters) - Slave narrative [Lots of misery, but the style is easier to read than Equiano's. I had also read this before, like ten years ago or so.]
Romanticism (British Literature)
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft (read the introduction) - Considered by many to be one of the first feminist works. [You know, I kind of agree to the idea that a woman is human and also has a mind and character and should have an education...]
"The Chimney Sweeper; When My Mother Died I Was Very Young" by William Blake - Poetry [Rather sad, but you might have guessed that from the title...]
"Infant Joy" by William Blake - Poetry [Short and sweet. One I already knew.]
"Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye During a Tour, July 13 1798" by William Wordsworth (lines 1-111) - Poetry [Long title. Long Poem. Interesting to discuss.]
"Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - poetry [apparently he was high on opium when he wrote this, which might explain why it is somewhat difficult to understand. Some parts were really pretty though; I loved the sentence "And here were forrests ancient as the hills".]
And to make this post look more interesting, I add a little friend I met a while ago: