This site is devoted to the study of literature using literary computer concordances, a form of analysing text. This document will attempt to help students understand what is meant by literary concordancing and will ask questions about featured Romantic writers which may be answered by using the English department concordance site.

N.B. This does not include workbooks on Shelley, Hopkins or Wordsworth, who are also featured in the Web Concordances.

Please note this Workbook uses frames for which you will need Netscape 2.0 or above. The Workbook is therefore best used within the confines of The Web Concordances

What are the main aims of these workbooks?

1. To provide students with an understanding of what is meant by the term 'concordance'.

2. To present some background information on the writers featured in the literary concordances and provide some insight into the poems themselves.

3. To enable students to look more closely at principal themes and words in the poems by use of the concordances.

What are the objectives of these workbooks?

1. Students should be able to understand how to use the literary concordances to study the works of the relevant writers.

2. Students should be able to answer the questions given using the literary concordances and thus show their understanding of the poems.

3. Students should become aware of how computer-aided learning can be of benefit when studying literature in detail.

How do I use these workbooks?

This site works by means of individual pages on each writer featured in the English concordance site. At the foot of this introductory page are links which will take you to each page in turn, and once there, further links will return you to this page as well as giving you an option to go to my Home Page. Each page on the relevant writers will have an introductory section on the poems themselves and a set of questions which should be answered by using the literary concordances. There are links on each page into the relevant part of the concordance for that writer.

• Start by reading the introductory page on concordances to get some understanding of what a concordance is.
• Then look at the page introducing you to computer assisted text analysis.
• Now have a look at the workbook guide which will explain more about what this workbook is all about and how to move easily between this site and the Web Concordance Site.
• Have a look at the web concordance site itself and get some idea of how it works. There is a useful help system here which should answer any queries.
• Finally, progress to the pages on each individual writer. N.B. These are the most important pages in this site and this is what you should be concentrating on. These pages work in a frames format.
  • The Blake Workbook
  • The Coleridge Workbook
  • The Keats Workbook

This site is maintained by Catherine Poole for the English at Dundee University. This page was last updated on 22 April 1999.