It is unnecessary to emphasize the value, as collateral reading, of historical poems and plays. To the brief list which follows should be added the material in Katharine Lee Bates and Katharine Coman, English History told by English Poets (N. Y., 1902, Macmillan, 60 cents).
Browning, Robert. Echetlos and Pheidippides.
Burns, Robert. The Battle of Bannockburn.
Byron (Lord). Song of Saul before His Last Battle, The Destruction of Sennacherib, Belshazzar's Feast, Prometheus, "Greece" (The Corsair, canto iii, lines 1-54), "Modern Greece" (Childe Harold, canto ii, stanzas 85-91), "The Death of Greece" (The Giaour, lines 68-141), "The Isles of Greece" (Don Juan, canto in), and "The Colosseum" (Childe Harold, canto iv, stanzas 140-145).
Clough, A. H. Columbus.
Coleridge, S. T. Kubla Khan.
Domett, Alfred. A Christmas Hymn
Drayton, Michael. The Battle of Agincourt.
Dryden, John. Alexander's Feast.
Jonson, Ben. Hymn to Diana.