Essays, Biography, etc.
Group 4: Addison and Steele's The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers,
or selections from the Tatler and Spectator (about 200 pages);
Boswell's selections from the
Life of Johnson (about 200 pages);
Franklin's
Autobiography; Irving's selections from the
Sketch Book
(about 200 pages), or
Life of Goldsmith; Southey's
Life of Nelson;
Lamb's selections from the
Essays of Elia (about 100 pages); Lockhart's
selections from the
Life of Scott (about 200 pages); Thackeray's
lectures on
Swift, Addison, and
Steele in the
English Humorists;
Macaulay, any
one of the following essays:
Lord Clive, Warren
Hastings, Milton, Addison, Goldsmith, Frederic the Great, Madame
d'Arblay; Trevelyan's selections from the
Life of Macaulay (about
200 pages); Ruskin's
Sesame and Lilies, or
Selections (about 150
pages); Dana's
Two Years before the Mast; Lincoln's
Selections, including
at least the two Inaugurals, the Speeches in Independence
Hall and at Gettysburg, the Last Public Address, the Letter to
Horace Greely; together with a brief memoir or estimate of Lincoln;
Parkman's
The Oregon Trail; Thoreau's
Walden; Lowell's
Selected
Essays (about 150 pages); Holmes'
The Autocrat of the Breakfast
Table; Stevenson's
An Inland Voyage and
Travels with a Donkey;
Huxley's
Autobiography and selections from
Lay Sermons, including
the addresses on
Improving Natural Knowledge, A Liberal Education,
and
A Piece of Chalk; a collection of
Essays by Bacon, Lamb, DeQuincey,
Hazlitt, Emerson and later writers; a collection of
Letters
by various standard writers.
