SYLLABUS 1.-HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882 1. Selections to Study. Wreck of the Hesperus; Norman Baron; Village Blacksmith; Beleaguered City; Goblet of Life; Footsteps of Angels; The Reaper and the Flowers; Sir Humphrey Gilbert; Building of the Ship; The Lighthouse; Phantom Ship; Children's Hour; Fire of Driftwood. NOTE. Titles of pieces printed in Italics indicate that the texts of such selections are given in this book. 2. Collateral Study.- Dickens's Christmas Carol. Selections from two of Dickens's novels. From David Copperfield: Ark at Yarmouth (chap. iii.), Little Em'ly (last third of chap. xxi.), The Tempest (chap. lv.). From Old Curiosity Shop: Death of the Little Scholar (chap. xxv.), The Old Sexton (chaps. liii. and liv.), Death and Burial of Little Nell (chaps. lxxi. and lxxii.). 3. Manual Study.-Three great writers of recent fiction: Charles Dickens, William M. Thackeray, George Eliot. 4. Supplementary Reading. — Samuel Longfellow's Life of Henry W. Longfellow; Austin's Longfellow: His Life, Works, and Friendships; Harrison's Early Victorian Literature; George Eliot's Silas Marner (Eclectic English Classics). 1. Selections to Study. From The Sketch Book: The Voyage; Christmas Eve; Return of Rip Van Winkle; Ichabod Crane in Search of a Sweetheart; Rural Funerals; Mutability of Literature; The Widow and her Son; The Broken Heart; Westminster Abbey. 2. Collateral Study. Selections from Prescott; Selections from Motley. 3. Manual Study. — American historians: Prescott, Motley, Bancroft. 4. Supplementary Reading.-C. D. Warner's Life of Irving. 5. Editions. Selection from Irving's Sketch Book (Eclectic English Classics). Irving's Tales of a Traveler (Eclectic English Classics). 3. JOHN G. WHITTIER, 1807-1892 1. Selections to Study. — Gift of Tritemius; Frost Spirit; Lines on a Portrait; The Huskers; Snow-bound; Skipper Ireson's Ride; Trust; Three Bells; Eternal Goodness. influences at work in any era. When one has studied the representative authors of any period, the influences which affected the time in which they lived, and the influence which they exerted upon their own and subsequent times, he has properly studied literature." - 2. Collateral Study. — Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics). 3. Manual Study. — Benjamin Franklin. 4. Supplementary Reading. — Pickard's Life of John G. Whittier; McMaster's Life of Benjamin Franklin. 1. Selections to Study. of Wakefield. 2. Collateral Study. 4. OLIVER GOLDSMITH, 1728-1774 Deserted Village; Traveler; Selections from Vicar Selections from Swift's Gulliver's Travels; Selections from De Foe's Robinson Crusoe (Eclectic School Readings). 3. Manual Study. — First great writers of fiction: De Foe, Richardson, Swift, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Dr. Johnson. 4. Supplementary Reading. — Irving's Life of Goldsmith; chap. xiii. of Boswell's Life of Dr. Johnson; Macaulay's Essay on Goldsmith, Dr. Johnson (Eclectic English Classics). 5. Editions. - Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. 5.- WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT, 1794-1878 1. Selections to Study. The White-footed Deer; To a Waterfowl; Death of the Flowers; Thanatopsis; Hymn to the North Star; Green River; Evening Wind; Crowded Street; Autumn Woods; Fringed Gentian; Summer Wind; The Past; Planting of the Apple Tree. 2. Collateral Study.- Edgar A. Poe's Raven, The Gold Bug; Lowell's Vision of Sir Launfal. 3. Manual Study.— Edgar A. Poe, N. P. Willis, Fitz-Greene Halleck, James Russell Lowell. 4. Supplementary Reading. — John Bigelow's Life of Bryant; Symington's Sketch of Bryant; Woodberry's Life of Poe. 5. Editions. Alden's Studies in Bryant (Select Poems). 6. THOMAS GRAY, 1716-1771 - Elegy in a Country Churchyard; The Bard; Prog 2. Collateral Study.- Macaulay's Essay on Warren Hastings; Burke's Conciliation with American Colonies (Eclectic English Classics); Macaulay's Second Essay on Chatham (Eclectic English Classics). 3. Manual Study. - Macaulay, Edmund Burke. 4. Supplementary Reading. — Gosse's Life of Gray. 5. Editions. Gray's Select Poems (Eclectic English Classics). 7.-NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE, 1804-1864 1. Selections to Study. From the Twice-Told Tales: Little Annie's Ramble; Gentle Boy; Sister Years; Edward Fane's Rosebud. From Mosses from an Old Manse: The Old House; A Select Party; Celestial Railroad; Intelligence Office; Earth's Holocaust. From Snow Image and Twice-Told Tales: Snow Image; Great Stone Face; Canterbury Pilgrims; Wives of the Dead; Little Daffydowndilly. 2. Collateral Study.- Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem on Monadnoc; Essay on American Scholars, Self-reliance, and Compensation (Eclectic English Classics); Cooper's Pilot (Eclectic English Classics). 3. Manual Study. — James Fenimore Cooper, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Bayard Taylor, Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson. 4. Supplementary Reading. - Julian Hawthorne's Life of Hawthorne; Lounsbury's Life of James Fenimore Cooper. 8. ROBERT BURNS, 1759-1796 1. Selections to Study. Cotter's Saturday Night; To a Mouse; To a Mountain Daisy; Banks of Doon; Highland Mary; To Mary in Heaven. 2. Collateral Study.-Collins's Ode to Evening; Shelley's Skylark; Keats's Eve of St. Agnes. 3. Manual Study.-Collins, Shelley, Keats. 4. Supplementary Reading. - Shairp's Life of Burns; Carlyle's Essay on Burns (Eclectic English Classics). 5. Editions. Burns's Select Poems (Eclectic English Classics). 9. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, 1809-1894 1. Selections to Study.- Last Leaf; My Aunt; Lexington; Living Temple; Under the Violets; Chambered Nautilus; Old Ironsides; Stethoscope Song; Deacon's Masterpiece; Hymn of Trust; Voyage of the Good Ship Union; Union and Liberty. 2. Collateral Study. -Webster's Bunker Hill Monument Orations (Eclectic English Classics). 3. Manual Study. — Daniel Webster, John G. Saxe. 4. Supplementary Reading. Morse's Life of Holmes; Holmes's Sketch of Motley. 1. Selections to Study. Rosabelle; Lochinvar; Jeanie Deans pleading for her Sister's Life, from Heart of Mid Lothian; The Escape from the Cliffs, from the Antiquary. Selections from Ivanhoe, Talisman, Kenilworth. 2. Collateral Study. — Campbell's Battle of the Baltic, and Lochiel's Warning. 3. Manual Study. — Thomas Campbell. 4. Supplementary Reading.—Hutton's Life of Scott; Donald G. Mitchell's Old Story Tellers. 5. Editions. -Scott's Ivanhoe; Marmion; Lady of the Lake; The Abbot; Woodstock (Eclectic English Classics). 11.-ALFRED TENNYSON, 1809-1892 1. Selections to Study.— Dora; Lady Clare; Lord of Burleigh; In the Children's Hospital; Defense of Lucknow; Ulysses; Sir Galahad; Lotus Eaters; Morte D'Arthur; Enoch Arden; Death of the Old Year; St. Agnes' Eve; Sea Dreams; Lady of Shalott; Margaret; Blackbird; Godiva; Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington; Selections from Princess. 2. Collateral Study. - Select Poems from Mrs. Browning; Select Poems from Robert Browning. 3. Manual Study. — Mrs. Browning, Robert Browning, Jean Ingelow. 4. Supplementary Reading. · Hallam Tennyson's Life of Alfred Tennyson; Van Dyke's Poetry of Tennyson; Fields's Yesterdays with Authors. 5. Editions.-Tennyson's Princess (Eclectic English Classics). 12.-JOSEPH ADDISON, 1672-1719 1. Selections to Study. — From the Spectator: Vision of Mirza (No. 159); Sir Roger in the Country (No. 106); Sir Roger at Church (No. 112); Death of Sir Roger (No. 517); Sir Roger at Westminster Abbey (No. 329); On the Use of Time (No. 93); Immortality (No. 111); Laughter and Ridicule (No. 249); Tale of Marraton (No. 50); Dreams (No. 487); On the Idea of God (No. 531); Cheerfulness (No. 381); Time and Eternity (No. 575). 2. Collateral Study.-Dryden's Palamon and Arcite (Eclectic English Classics); Dryden's Alexander's Feast; Pope's Essay on Man and Rape of the Lock (Eclectic English Classics). 3. Manual Study.— Dryden, Steele, Lady Montague, Pope. 4. Supplementary Reading.—Macaulay's Essay on Addison (Eclectic English Classics). - Sir Roger de Coverley Papers (Eclectic English Classics). 1. Selections to Study. 13.-LORD BYRON, 1788-1824 Prisoner of Chillon. Selections from Childe Harold: 1. Good Night (Canto I.); 2. Lake Leman (Canto III., stanza 85); 3. Waterloo (Canto III., stanza 21); 4. Gibbon and Voltaire (Canto III., stanza 105); 5. Venice (Canto IV., stanza 1); 6. A Woman's Grace (Canto IV., stanza 99); 7. Time (Canto IV., stanza 130); 8. Gladiator (Canto IV., stanza 140); 9. Apostrophe to the Ocean (Canto IV., stanza 179). 2. Collateral Study.—Coleridge's Ancient Mariner (Eclectic English Classics). 3. Manual Study. — Coleridge, Robert Southey. 4. Supplementary Reading. — Macaulay's Essay on Byron; Southey's Life of Nelson (Eclectic English Classics). 5. Editions. - Byron's Select Poems (Eclectic English Classics). 1. Selections to Study. 14. -WILLIAM COWPER, 1731-1800 - On Receipt of my Mother's Picture; John Gilpin; Alexander Selkirk; Religious Hymns. 2. Collateral Study. -Selections from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress; Selections from Cowper's Letters. 3. Manual Study. John Bunyan. ertson. - - Great Historians: Hume, Gibbon, Rob 4. Supplementary Reading. — Goldwin Smith's Life of Cowper; Macaulay's Essay on Bunyan. 15.-WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, 1564-1616 1. Selections to Study. (See chap. xxi., p. 322.) 2. Collateral Study. Selections from Marlowe's Dr. Faustus, and Ben Jonson's Every Man in his own Humor; Chaucer's Prologue and Knight's Tale (Eclectic English Classics). 3. Manual Study.-Chaucer. Elizabethan dramatists: Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Massinger, Ford, Webster. 4. Supplementary Reading. Charles Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare; Mrs. Jameson's Characteristics of Shakespeare's Women; Hudson's Life, Art, and Characters of Shakespeare; Dowden's Shakespeare Primer; Sidney Lee's Life of Shakespeare. 5. Editions. Shakespeare's Julius Cæsar; Twelfth Night; Merchant of Venice; Midsummer Night's Dream; As You Like It; Macbeth; Hamlet (Eclectic English Classics). 1. Selections to Study - Lycidas; Comus; L'Allegro; Il Penseroso. . Collateral Study. -Spenser's Prothalamion; Bacon's Essays on Studies, Death, Goodness, Cunning. |