TODAY IN CLASS
Beethoven, Overture to Creatures of Prometheus (ballet), 1801

NATURE as it affects Frankenstein; role of nature as a major aspect of English Romanticism vs. Enlightenment/Age of Reason

Lyrical Ballads (1798) --poetry by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Launched the Romantic period of English literature

There had been some late 18th-century "pre-Romantics":  William Blake, Robert Burns, Thomas Gray

But Wordsworth and Coleridge led the way into full-fledged Romanticism.
Other prominent names:  Percy Bysshe Shelley; George Gordon, Lord Byron; John Keats

BY TOMORROW

• You should have finished the book.  
• Check out the links below (Monday's as well) --but for the study questions, don't go beyond the indicated heading until you finish.  There are plot-spoilers.

Some study questions/close review; originally devised for British and Western, but still worthy of your attention:
Frankenstein (last half) Study Suggestions

Also, check this out for two ideas of  the Prometheus connection; you'll see that one seems more likely than the other . . .
Prometheus/Frankenstein

and just skim the Wikipedia article, paying special attention to the Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley connections:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prometheus#Percy_Bysshe_Shelley_and_Prometheus_Unbound

And though we will look specifically at some relevant passages from Milton's Paradise Lost, this is the simplest best way to get a handle on Sorrows of Werter:
Sorrows of Werter