A Satirical Elegy
Power - Legacy - Corruption
Author of Gullivers Travels + A Modest Proposal
Criticising General John Churchill - political feuds
Irish Protestant - appalled by irish catholics and snobby english
The Collar
Devotion - Resolution After Crisis
Was very ill when writing it
Left parliament to take holy orders
Struggling with devotion
The Prelude
Childhood Nature Loss
Autobiographical - one of three versions
Romantic poet
The Sublime - commune with nature
The Schoolboy
Childhood Loss Relationships
Pastoral Poem
Criticising formal learning
Romantic Poet
England in 1819
Political Protest
Sonnet
Criticism of King Georges reign
Published 20 years later after poets death
The Darkling Thrush
Landscape Nature Resolution after Crisis
Written at end of year and turn of century
Author of Tess of the D’Urbivilles
Originally called ‘By the Century’s Deathbed’
The Voice
Devotion Loss Relationships
Elegy - mourn dead
His wife of several decades
He had had affairs
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
Landscape Childhood Mortality/Age
a late-romantic poet
often between two homes in childhood (?)
Leisure
Nature Humanity Industrial
written during industrialisation - challenging it
In ‘Songs of Joy and Others’ - 1911
Importance of leisure in life
The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
Landscape Love/Relationships Nature
seductive poem
returning to nature
pastoral lyric poem- romanticise rural
My Last Duchess
Pride Power Relationships
set in Italy but written in England
based on real Duke of Ferrara whose wife also dies suspiciously
Remembrance
Legacy Loss Relationships
elegy - mourn dead
a Gondall Story - Princess Rosina to her only love
set in a british burial ground