1. The Victorians 1832-1901 “Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.” ---George Eliot

2. Read/Note?  Development of Language  Literary History  Alfred Lord Tennyson  Verse, meter, tone, etc.  “The Lady of Shalott”  “Ulysses”  “In Memoriam”  “Crossing the Bar”

3. The Brownings et al.  Author’s purpose vs. intended ambiguity (but then, isn’t that the author’s purpose?)  Revisit Form and Meaning (p.771)  “Duchess” (855) & “Porphyria” (857) & “Sonnet 43” (862)  Brontё too (863)

4. Back in time… to the Romantics  Shelley “Ozymandias” (782) & “Ode to the West Wind” (783)  Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn” (799)

5. Closing:  What is the most significant change from the Romantic Period to the Victorian Period?  What changes (from preceding periods) has carried over to or continued from the Romantic Period into the Victorian Period?