CHAPTER IX
GETTING THE AUTHOR’S MOOD
Hints to the Student
Before the pupil is ready for this second step, Sympathetic Reading, he must have mastered part one, Intelligible Reading. The first step was concerned primarily with the development of the intellect, but the second step appeals primarily to the emotions, one’s sympathetic response to mood.
The outlines for the study of a selection, given later, will be found very helpful as a basis and guide for study and analysis.
MEMORABILIA
By Robert Browning
Ah, did you once see Shelley plain,
And did he stop and speak to you,