From Chaucer to Pope

For every team presentation, you will find a passage for general student comments. After their oral presentations, the members of the team will create an enhanced description of what they learned and what they taught the class in making their presentation. Enhancing the presentation involves providing a bibliography and various materials found on the Web to deepen and expand our understanding of English literature.

This is how the illuminator of the Ellesmere manuscript imagined Chaucer on his little horse. Click here for source.

Pope was one of the great celebrities of his age, and many artists captured his likeness in drawings, paintings, and sculptures. This portrait, one of many by Jonathan Richardson, was probably made in 1718; note Pope’s dog, Bounce, at his feet. Click here for source.