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Home First Year Essays Second Year Essays Third Year Essays Authors Reading List Sitemap search AnEssayOnEnglish.com only	The Second Year – My Essays The second year should be much easier than the first, and in some ways it is: you’re settled in and, to a certain extent, used to the workload. Also, this time round the summer reading list has (mostly) been completed before term begins, and the vacation essays no longer resemble a crazy challenge. However, with greater age comes a greater number of essays. I wrote 29 essays during this year, over half of my total. The first term was on the Renaissance and the second on the Restoration. The work rate was slightly slower than the last year, with one essay a week, apart from two weeks per term which would be devoted to a slightly longer essay than usual. In addition to the early modern work,, Middle English essays were set every two weeks from the start of the first term until half way through the second. After this point we began writing Language essays as practice for the coursework module at the end of the year. The third term of the second year was one of the hardest, with a term’s work on the Romantics and Language essays compressed into five weeks, followed by three weeks of course work. Due to the amount and timing of the work in the second year the essays take on a more consistent character. They are generally better, with fewer mistakes and more vigorous arguments. Having said this, there are still ones I am not entirely happy with: the essays on Byron, Elizabethan Criminal Literature and Satire are not quite up to standard. The best are probably the essays on Milton, Defoe, Sterne, Chaucer and ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’. Essay Titles: Second Year Essays On... Language Theory Dictionary What makes a good dictionary? Genre Discuss genre in the light of a Pope quotation Literary Language A literary language comparison between speeches by Elizabeth I and Churchill Commentary on the different use of language in a modern novel and a blog Is there such a thing as literary language? Standard English Is standard english a social bank? Why is the definition of standard english so controversial? Middle English Gawain Poet Moral questions and certainties in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 'Pearl is an apocalypse - a relevation or unveiling' Discuss Geoffery Chaucer Do Chaucer's early poems have anything in common other than being early? In the Canterbury Tales the devil has all the best tunes. Discuss Is Troilus and Criseyde a 'tragedye'? Owl and the Nightingale 'A satire on human contentiousness' How much more is there to The Owl and the Nightingale William Langland 'Piers Plowman is essentially a record of confrontations' Discuss Renaissance Ben Jonson 'The moralist and dramatist in Jonson are constantly at odds' Do you agree? Crime Examine the Elizabethan fascination with crime Elizabethan Tragedy Consider the nature of the tragedies of the 1580s and 1590s John Donne 'The rebelliousness of the young Donne is tamed in the writings of the divine' Discuss John Milton (Early) Should the early Milton be read theologically or politically? Sonnet Sequences Sexual politics in the sonnet sequences of Spenser and Sidney Restoration Andrew Marvel To what extent is Marvel's verse 'betwixt Jest and Earnest'? Daniel Defoe Is Defoe an ironist? John Milton (Late) 'An intense re-evaluation of heroic behaviour is central to the Miltonic argument.' Discuss 'Paradise Lost is as marked by the present as the classical, by revolutionary politics as theology' Discuss Satire Describe the success of Rochester's and Pope's satires Romantics John Keats Discuss the social and aesthetic qualities of Keats' work Laurence Sterne Examine the oddity and popularity of Sterne's fiction Lord Byron 'Hail muse, et cetera' Write on Byron in the light of this quotation William Blake Is there a system behind Blake's work? © 2009 copyright www.anessayonenglish.com - An Essay On English - Free English Essays Online

An Essay On English

The Second Year – My Essays

The second year should be much easier than the first, and in some ways it is: you’re settled in and, to a certain extent, used to the workload. Also, this time round the summer reading list has (mostly) been completed before term begins, and the vacation essays no longer resemble a crazy challenge. However, with greater age comes a greater number of essays. I wrote 29 essays during this year, over half of my total.

The first term was on the Renaissance and the second on the Restoration. The work rate was slightly slower than the last year, with one essay a week, apart from two weeks per term which would be devoted to a slightly longer essay than usual. In addition to the early modern work,, Middle English essays were set every two weeks from the start of the first term until half way through the second. After this point we began writing Language essays as practice for the coursework module at the end of the year. The third term of the second year was one of the hardest, with a term’s work on the Romantics and Language essays compressed into five weeks, followed by three weeks of course work.

Due to the amount and timing of the work in the second year the essays take on a more consistent character. They are generally better, with fewer mistakes and more vigorous arguments. Having said this, there are still ones I am not entirely happy with: the essays on Byron, Elizabethan Criminal Literature and Satire are not quite up to standard. The best are probably the essays on Milton, Defoe, Sterne, Chaucer and ‘The Owl and the Nightingale’.