First class on Browning’s Childe Roland

[close reading] Relation of poem to the Intimations Ode and Mont Blanc.  Interesting referential confusion in student comment.  Edgar's song.  Its contextlessness.  The fact that the title is in quotation marks: it is a quotation.  Slughorns and slogans.  The hoary cripple.  The ominous tract which all agree hides the Dark Tower being the text ("tract") of Lear.