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Essay (MULTIPLE paragraphs, with a thesis statement and conc…

Essay (MULTIPLE paragraphs, with a thesis statement and conclusion). Read CAREFULLY.  You’ll need at least 20-25 minutes for this section. Explain fully and develop with adequate textual evidence or detail from the texts.   Late Enlightenment rationalism and its “broad concepts” helped generate a “romantic spirit” during the 1790s and later. Compose an essay that defines the “romantic mind” or sensibility AND discusses how William Wordsworth and TWO other authors (Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Robert Burns, or Joanne Baille) variously illustrate its elements or ideas in their poems. When possible, make distinctions between the authors and their works. Texts to select from include the following:  Barbauld’s “To the Poor,” “Eighteen Hundred and Eleven,” and “The Rights of Woman”; Burns-“To a Mouse, On Turning Her Up in Her Nest with the Plough,” “Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn,” “A Red, Red Rose,” “Love and Liberty. A Cantata” (or “The Jolly Beggars”) ; Baille’s “A Mother to Her Waking Infant,” “Thunder,” “A Winter Day”; Wordsworth’s “Lines Written in Early Spring,” “The Tables Turned,” “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey,” “Composed Upon Westminster Bridge Sept. 3, 1803,” “The World is Too Much With Us,” “London 1802,” “I Wondered Lonely as a Cloud,” “Michael,” and The Prelude.