Essays, Biography, Etc.
Group 4: Addison and Steele's The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers, or selections
from the Tatler and the Spectator (about 200 pages); selections from Boswell's
Life of Johnson (about 200 pages); Franklin's Autobiography; selections
from Irving's Sketch Book (about 200 pages), or his Life of Goldsmith; Southey's
Life of Nelson; selections from Lamb's Essays of Elia (about 100 pages);
selections from Lockhart's Life of Scott (about 200 pages); Thackeray's lectures
on
Swift, Addison, and
Steele, in the
English Humorists; any one of the following
essays of Macaulay:
Lord Clive, Warren Hastings, Milton, Addison, Goldsmith,
Frederick the Great, Madame d'Arblay; selections from Trevelyan's
Life
of Macaulay (about 200 pages); Ruskin's
Sesame and Lilies, or selections from
Ruskin's works (about 150 pages); Dana's
Two Years Before the Mast; selections
from Lincoln's works, including at least the two Inaugurals, the Speeches
in Independence Hall and at Gettysburg, the Last Public Address, the Letter to
Horace Greeley, together with a brief memoir or estimate of Lincoln; Parkman's
The Oregon Trail; Thoreau's
Walden; selections from Lowell's 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.
