A few comments on some possible subjects for student presentations:
The Romantic Era

• Anna Letitia Barbauld's "The Caterpillar" is interesting in itself and could be fruitfully compared to Burns' "To a Mouse."
• Blake's "The Clod & the Pebble," "The Sick Rose," and "Infant Sorrow" are all (for me, at least) enjoyable puzzle poems, so highly symbolic that they are susceptible to a variety of valid interpretations. Any one, though quite short, is worthy of a presentation.
• William Wordsworth is often prolix, but "A slumber did my spirit seal" is short and mysterious.
• I would be very pleased if someone would take Coleridge's "Kubla Kahn" because it's a justly famous poem, and one of my favorites. Also, the story that Coleridge told about its creation raises an interesting question: Is it really just a fragment, or is it complete as it stands?
• Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women marks the beginning of a movement that we have come to know as feminism.
• Jane Austen's Love and Friendship is a wonderful parody of the sort of sentimental novel that filled the lending libraries of her time.
• Byron's Manfred is a representative of the dark, "Gothic" side of Romanticism.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley's "The Mask of Anarchy" has a highly-charged background story.
• Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn" has a much-debated conclusion.
• Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, also wrote some strange short stories, including "The Mortal Immortal."
• In "Love's Last Lesson" Letitia Elizabeth Landon, who lived a melodramatic life, tells a story of deep disillusionment.