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Below is a collection of essays and papers from my college days.

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From English 200 - "Introduction to Critical Reading"
with Dr. Nicholas Joukovsky

•Analysis of The Sunlight on the Garden, by Louis MacNeice
•Interpretation of Grace from Dubliners, by James Joyce
•On Possession, by A. S. Byatt
•Presentation of Criticism of Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

 

From English 213 - "Introductory Poetry Writing"
with Jason Santalucia

•An Introduction to Sharon Olds

 

From English 221w - "British Literature to 1798"
with Pat Nickinson

•On John Donne and Metaphor
•On Criticisms of Paradise Lost
•On the Change in Writing from Maldon to Gawain 
•On Paradise Lost, Book Three
•On "The Ecstasy"

 

From English 222 - "British Literature after 1798"
with Dr. Nicholas Joukovsky

•On Nature in Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
•On The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, by T.S. Eliot

 

From English 232w - "American Literature from 1865"
with Grace Sikorsky

•Mark Twain and John Dos Passos On War
•On American Education and Assimilation
•On Feminism and "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Gilman

 

From English 261 - "Exploring Literary Genres"
with Distinguished Professor James L. W. West III

•On The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett
•On William Faulkner’s "The Unvanquished"

 

From English 403 - "Poetry of the Great War"
with Dr. Robin Schulze

• On Two Poems by Charles Hamilton Sorley
•On "To Some of Our Editors"

 

From English 444 -"The Plays of Shakespeare"
with Dr. Michael Tiernan

•On Sources of William Shakespeare's "King Lear"
• An Introduction to King Lear by William Shakespeare

From English 446 -"The Major Works of John Milton"
with Dr. Laura Knoppers

• On The Nativities of Adam and Eve In Paradise Lost, by John Milton

From English 487w - Senior Seminar "Literature of The Great War"
with Dr. Michael Morrison

•On Combat by W. Roberts
•On "The Waste Land" by T. S. Eliot  
- Senior Seminar Paper

 

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