- This includes all literature produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901).
- The link between the high antics of Romanticism and the more bleak poetry of the modernists.
- It was really the novel that was getting all the attention at the time - Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy, Charles Dickens, the Bronte Sisters were producing some of the first mass printed and mass consumed novels ever.
- The Victorians liked the finer things - ornate decorations, ornate clothing, a life of imagination... party games like charades and group story-telling were invented in this time period.
One of the most famous love stories between two poets comes out of this era. The Brownings - Elizabeth Barret Browning and Robert Browning.
Elizabeth's most remembered poems are her love sonnets. Anyone ever written a love poem? (She wrote 44 for her husband and kept them in secret for years).
Let's take a look at one:
Before we do - Speed Dating Lines Activity. 
How do I Love Thee? Use the Questions to ask a Poem handout. Class Discussion.
4) Sonnet types (on board). Look at your nonsense poem from yesterday... can you turn your 14 lines into a structured sonnet?
5) Sonnet Worksheet - I hate worksheets. Blah. But, the poem is good...
Tomorrow - Lit. Circles in Library
Thursday - Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" and dramatic monologues, in general.
