Literature and Composition Module 2.9
Ivanhoe
Study Guide: Literature and Composition (Excellence in Literature, English 2)
Focus Text
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
Honors: Kim by Rudyard Kipling
Audiobook: http://amzn.to/2qIHWwu
EIL 2.9 Context Resource Links
These links represent only the online resources referenced in this module. Instructions, background information, offline resources, and assignments are all found in the Excellence in Literature study guide listed above.
Readings
This brief, satirical series of cartoons describes “How to Finish a Daughter.”
The Author’s Life
http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/biography/introduction.htm
http://www.mr-oscar-wilde.de/about/h/holland_v.htm
https://excellence-in-literature.com/de-profundis-by-oscar-wilde
http://www.biography.com/people/rudyard-kipling-9365581
Poetry
https://excellence-in-literature.com/on-the-massacre-of-the-christians-in-bulgaria-by-oscar-wilde
http://librivox.org/the-ballad-of-reading-gaol-by-oscar-wilde-jg
https://excellence-in-literature.com/the-walrus-and-the-carpenter-by-lewis-carroll
https://excellence-in-literature.com/the-jumblies-by-edward-lear
https://excellence-in-literature.com/if-poem-by-rudyard-kipling
Audio
http://librivox.org/the-importance-of-being-earnest-by-oscar-wilde
Video
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) with Michael Redgrave
https://excellence-in-literature.com/1952-film-the-importance-of-being-earnest-clip
Visual Arts
https://excellence-in-literature.com/victorian-art
Music
https://web.archive.org/web/20150527191822/math.boisestate.edu/GaS///////colins_site/index.html
Ralph Vaughan Williams symphonies
http://www.lipscomb.edu/windbandhistory/RhodesWindBand_07_BritishBrassBand.htm
Historic Context
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/welcome.htm
http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael/victorian/review/mconnections.htm
http://www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/victorians/victorianhome.html
http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/index.html
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Literature and Composition Texts