Poetry.
Group 5: Palgrave's Golden Treasury (First Series), Books II and III, with
special attention to Dryden, Collins, 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 Traveler 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.
