• Launchpad: Browning's Last Duchess

    Created August 19, 2010

    Launchpad: Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps

    Preparing for Poetry: A Reader's First Steps

    The following links will help you as you learn to "prepare for poetry":

    Lewis Carroll, English author, is born

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    January 27, 1832
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    A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
    Childhood Through the Looking-Glass
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    A Trip to Wonderland: Sizing Up Alice
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    Victorian Web: Lewis Carroll
    Thinkfinity January 27 Lewis Carroll was born in 1832

    Lord Byron, English Romantic poet, is born

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    January 22, 1788
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    Romantic Circles: The Byron Chronology - important dates in the life of George Gordon, Lord Byron.

    English novelist Jane Austen born

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    December 16, 1775
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    Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice": The Novel as Historical Source

    English poet John Milton born

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    December 9, 1608
    Related Lesson Plans: 
    Listening to Poetry: Sounds of the Sonnet
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    Poetry.org: John Milton
    Yale Open: John Milton
    Manifold Greatness: Timeline of Literary Influences - John Milton Paradise Lost

    L. Frank Baum (“The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”) born

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    May 15, 1856
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    America's Story: L. Frank Baum

    Irish essayist and satirist Jonathan Swift born

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    November 30, 1667
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    Gulliver's Travels, Project Gutenberg

    William Blake, English poet and painter, is born

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    November 28, 1757
    Related Lesson Plans: 
    Childhood Through the Looking-Glass
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    William Blake Archives
    Manifold Greatness: William Blake

    Lewis Carroll presents the manuscript of “Alice’s Adventures under Ground” with his own illustrations to Alice Liddell

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    November 26, 1864
    Related Lesson Plans: 
    A Trip to Wonderland: The Nursery 'Alice'
    Childhood Through the Looking-Glass
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    Tate Liverpool: Alice in Wonderland

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