Block, 2/14 - St. Valentine and the Romantics (Ahem!)

Valentinus

• P&P

• St. Valentine: 
• Feastday: February 14 
• Patron of Love, Young People, Happy Marriages
• Died: 269

"Valentinus was a Roman priest martyred during the reign of Claudius the Goth [Claudius II]. Since he was caught marrying Christian couples and aiding any Christians who were being persecuted under Emperor Claudius in Rome [when helping them was considered a crime], Valentinus was arrested and imprisoned. Claudius took a liking to this prisoner -- until Valentinus made a strategic error: he tried to convert the Emperor -- whereupon this priest was condemned to death. He was beaten with clubs and stoned; when that didn't do it, he was beheaded outside the Flaminian Gate [circa 269]" (Catholic.org/saints).

• Check Bedford 8

• (Reno) Finish William Blake poems
• "The Chimney Sweeper" (two versions)
• "A Poison Tree" 

• William Wordsworth
• "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" 
• "The World Is Too Much with Us"

 

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge (a beautifully illustrated copy by Gustave Dore)
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Richard Burton's version

HW: 

1. Read through Ch. 30 in P&P by Monday, Feb. 25th.
2. Work on CWP Q
3. Update your binder (we will have a quiz over Romanticism, blog, Bedford, and P&P the week of the 25th