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Jonathan Swift - A Description of the Morning
18th Century London, a typical morning for londoners of all stations. -
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Anne Finch - A Nocturnal Reverie
The feeling of night when it becomes uncomfortably calm and quiet. -
John Gay - Of Walking the Streets By Night
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Elizabeth Hands - A Poem on the Supposition...
'I suppose you all read in the paper this morning
A volume of Poems advertised - tis' said
They're produced by the pen of a poor servant maid.'
'A servant writes verses!' says madame Du Bloom:
'Pray what is the subject - A Mop, or a Broom?' -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Frost at Midnight
The feeling of night when it becomes uncomfortably calm and quiet. -
William Wordsworth - I Wandered lonely as a cloud
Alone but with the company of nature. -
Anne Bronte - Tenant of WIldfell Hall
A woman and her secrets between two men, one her past and one her present. -
The French Revolution – 1848
The French Revolution – 1848 Did a Full course on the French Revolution I will never forget the date. the Enlightenment culminated in the French and American revolutions. Philosophy and science increased in prominence. Philosophers dreamed of a brighter age. This dream turned into a reality with the French Revolution, although it was later compromised by the excesses of the terror of Maximilien Robespierre. -
Frederick Douglass My Bondage and my Freedom Chapter 15
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Emanccipation Proclamation by Abe Lincoln
Almost a decaade after Douglass' literature on slavery, Lincoln frees the slaves. -
Gerard Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty
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International Woman Suffrage Alliance Created
After selling her home, British activist Emmeline Pankhurst travelled constantly, giving speeches throughout Britain and the United States. One of her most famous speeches, Freedom or death, was delivered in Connecticut in 1913. -
James Joyce - Araby
Lonely, dejected boy at a bazaar. -
Wallace Stevens - Disillusionment of 10 o'clock
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Isaac Rosenberg - Break of Day in the Trenches
In the middle of WWI, soldiers sit huddled in the the dark obliqueness of the trenches -
WWI Ends
WW1 Ends 28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918, After release of Isaac Rosenberg’s poem about soldiers in the trenches and before a play where a boy leaves to join the war effort -
Shelagh Delaney - A Taste of Honey
Eccentric Mother and Irked Daughter, Helen and Jo. -
Rita Dove - Kentucky, 1833
The Massa cheers as the slaves "roughhouse" on a Sunday afternoon. -
Rita Dove - Daystar
Unappreciated, overworked housewife and mother. -
Li Young Lee - Persimmons
Chew the skin, suck it, and swallow. Now, eat the meat of the fruit, so sweet, all of it, to the heart. -
Alice Munro - Menesteung
Meda, fearing what could become of her life if she chose to marry, locks herself away from the perils of marriage and does not get to pursue her talents either. She withers away and dies alone, a spinster. -
Miriam Toews - Blueprints
The house her father built - his only proud accomplishment - is driven away on a truck. -
The Improved Printing Press
The 19th century was the age of machine tools - tools that made tools - machines that made parts for other machines, including interchangeable parts. The assembly line was invented during the 19th century, speeding up the factory production of consumer goods. German, Frederick Koenig invents an improved printing press.
