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How do Berkeley students think? Well, no one and nothing can answer that. But here are some thoughtful, unedited responses to questions that popped up in our seminar during the innocent days of Spring, 2000.

Bustle vs. calm in the Lyrical Ballads

Tintern Abbey's escape from didacticism

Circles, repetition, and the end of the Ballads

Wordsworth's simplified encounter with the leech gatherer

Wordsworth and the future

The leech gatherer's muddy waters

Redemption and surreality

The Ancient Mariner's spellbinding eye

Christabel's dreaming narrator

Blake's symbiotic clod and pebble

Experience and the destabilized family

Blake's repudiation, Shelley's communion

Fire, wind, and prophecy

Wordsworth, Clare, and affirmation

Shelley, Clare, and vaulting

Byron's mock Wordsworth

Don Juan's defamiliarizations

Morality made unnatural

Keats's mortal nightingale

Female afterlife

LEL's barren sorrow