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 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 The 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.
