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3. Manual Study. - Lord Bacon, Edmund Spenser. Great theologians: Isaac Barrow, Jeremy Taylor, Tillotson, South, Fuller.

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4. Supplementary Reading. Macaulay's Essay on Milton; W. E. Channing's Essay on Milton (Eclectic English Classics).

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Milton's L'Allegro; Il Penseroso; Comus; Lycidas (Eclectic
Milton's Paradise Lost, Book I. and II. (Eclectic

English Classics).

English Classics).

17.- WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1770-1850

1. Selections to Study.

Intimations of Immortality; Laodamia; Tintern

Abbey; Character of the Happy Warrior; Yarrow Visited.

2. Collateral Study.-Shelley's Cloud; Keats's Grecian Urn; Selections from Moore's Irish Melodies; De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars (Eclectic English Classics).

3. Manual Study. - Keats, Shelley, Moore, Hood, Mrs. Hemans, De Quincey. 4. Supplementary Reading. Charles Lamb's Essays of Elia; Shairp's Essay on Wordsworth; Barry Cornwall's Sketch of Charles Lamb; Myers's Life of Wordsworth; Hudson's Studies in Wordsworth.

5. Editions. - Wordsworth's Select Poems (Eclectic English Classics).

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REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS

"After the pupil has become familiar with the process, and can readily analyze the passages he reads with regard to the merit of the thought, the aptness of the expression, and the congruity of the parts, he may proceed to the eminent authors of our language, to whose writings a higher veneration is due. Here he would find it no longer necessary to follow step by step the process to which he had been trained; but the merit of the thought and the force of the expression would be perceived by him at a glance, just as an eye accustomed to the machinery of watches perceives the ingenious construction and the exquisite workmanship of a chronometer, without separating the parts."-WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

CHAPTER VII

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882

"He has composed poems which will live as long as the language in which they are written." -JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL.

"His poetry expresses a universal sentiment, in the simplest and most melodious manner." - GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS.

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IN the city of Cambridge, Mass., a few miles from Boston, lived one of America's most distinguished poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. This famous author was born in Portland, Me., in 1807, and graduated at Bowdoin College in 1825, in the same class with Nathaniel Hawthorne. Shortly after graduation, he was appointed professor of modern languages at Bowdoin College, and was allowed leave of absence to continue his studies in Europe. On his return, he entered upon the duties of his professorship, and in the meantime translated from the Spanish the "Coplas de Manrique," and furnished several articles

for the "North American Review." "Outre Mer" was his first original work, and was published in 1835. One year later, he was chosen professor of modern languages in Harvard University, and, before entering upon his duties, again went abroad, and was absent for two years.

In 1839 appeared his romance "Hyperion," a book glowing with poetic thought, and instinct with poetic expression. In the same year was published "Voices of the Night," a collection of his most widely known poems. It contained "The Psalm of Life," "The Reaper and the Flowers," "The Beleaguered City," and other poems, which were very popular, and marked Longfellow as a poet of the first rank. The publication of another volume of "Ballads and Other Poems," two years later, established his fame, including, as it did, "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "Excelsior," and "The Village Blacksmith."

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HENRY W. LONGFELLOW

He resigned his professorship in 1854, but continued to reside at Cambridge. For over a half century Longfellow was a most industrious contributor to American literature, and is universally recognized as one of the greatest and most popular poets of our time. He died in 1882. It has been said that "the poetry of Longfellow is a gospel of good will set to music. It has carried sweetness and light to

thousands of homes.

It is blended with our holiest affec

tions and our immortal hopes."

Longfellow resided in the "Craigie House," Cambridge, a mansion famous as being the headquarters of Washington during the Revolution. He was of medium height, well made, with no sign of age in figure or walk. His head and face were eminently poetic, his forehead broad, benignant, and full. The great charm of his face centered in his eyes; of an unclouded blue, deep set, under overhanging brows, they had an indescribable expression of thought and tenderness. Though seamed with many wrinkles, his face was rarely without the rosy hue of health, and appeared that of a much younger man, but for its frame of snow-white hair. Hair and whiskers were long, abundant, and wavy, and gave the poet the look of a patriarch.

THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

UNDER a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands :
The smith, a mighty man is he,

With large and sinewy hands;

And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.

His hair is crisp, and black, and long,

His face is like the tan;

His brow is wet with honest sweat,

He earns whate'er he can,

And looks the whole world in the face,

For he owes not any man.

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