Poetry.
Group 5: Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series): Books II
and III, with special attention to Dryden, Collins, Gray, Cowper,
and Burns; Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Book IV, with
special attention to Wordsworth, Keats, and Shelley (if not chosen
for study under B); Goldsmith's The Traveller and The Deserted Village;
Pope's The Rape of the Lock; a collection of English and Scottish
Ballads, as, for example, some Robin Hood ballads, The Battle of
Otterburn, King Estmere, Young Beichan, Bewick, and Grahame, Sir
Patrick Spens, and a selection from later ballads; Coleridge's The
Ancient Mariner, Christabel, and Kubla Khan; Byron's Childe Harold,
Canto III or IV, and The Prisoner of Chillon; Scott's The Lady of the
Lake, or Marmion; Macaulay's The Lays of Ancient Rome, The Battle
of Naseby, The Armada, Ivry; Tennyson's The Princess, or Gareth
and Lynette, Lancelot and Elaine, and Passing of Arthur; Browning's
Cavalier Tunes, The Lost Leader, How They Brought the Good News
from Ghent to Aix, Home Thoughts from Abroad, Home Thoughts from
the Sea, Incident of the French Camp, Hervé Riel, Pheidippides, My Last
Duchess, Up at a Villa—Down in the City, The Italian in England, The
Patriot, The Pied Piper, "De Gustibus," Instans Tyrannus; Arnold's
Sohrab and Rustum, and The Forsaken Merman; selections from American
Poetry, with special attention to Poe, Lowell, Longfellow and
Whittier.
