A resource site for ENGL 262 Romanticism to Resistance: British Literature since 1780 at Vanguard University. Collaborative Cultural and Textual Context projects will be produced here as a part of course.
This song is performed by Lord Kitchener who is one of the most famous Calypso musicians. The song is a call for the people of Jamaica, Grenada, and Barbados to put their people first. With the final lines… more
Inspired by Calypso music, this poem is as much a song as it is a social and political commentary. The rhymes and repetition add to the rhythm of the poem, which is meant to resemble Calypso music. The fourth portion draws a contrast in the lyrics between lines that would be seen in many traditional Caribbean songs versus the heavy tourism plaguing the islands as well as the lack of… more
Blast, a modernist journal, was created by Wyndham Lewis alongside writers such as Ezra Pound in 1914. Its explosive cover – bold BLAST lettering set against a magenta background– serves as a visual manifesto rejecting the ornate traditions of the Victorians and Romantics. … more
Published in the April 1913 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” embodies the Imagist ideal. The poem is only 14 words long and creates a clear and concise image of a subway.