John Keats: Bright star!

Lecturer: Steve Lynn

Click on the links below to view the lectures.

Part 1: Reading	Part 2: Interpreting	Part 3: Writing
Choose "Reading" to hear Steve Lynn give an interpretative reading of John Keats' poem "Bright star!"	Choose "Interpreting" to gain insights into the structure and themes of "Bright star!"	Choose "Writing" to hear suggestions for writing and comparing Keats' poem to "Choose Something Like a Star" by Robert Frost.
Questions for Thinking and Writing	Questions for Thinking and Writing	Questions for Thinking and Writing

About the Lecturer:
Steve Lynn is Louise Fry Scudder Professor and Chair of the English Department at the University of South Carolina. His research interests include eighteenth-century literature (especially Samuel Johnson), the teaching of writing (especially writing about literature), and science fiction (especially nanotechnology and bioethics). Lynn has written two Pearson Longman textbooks: Texts & Contexts, now in its fourth edition, and Literature: Reading and Writing with Critical Strategies.