Special Aim of the Term.
To teach to read poetry with enjoyment, and to show that poetical expression is an addition to beautiful thought.
Literature Studied.
First Half Term.
- The Vision of Sir Launfal. Lowell.
- The Forsaken Merman. Arnold, or
- King Robert of Sicily. Longfellow.
- The Ancient Mariner. Coleridge.
Second Half Term.
- The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare.
- Sesame and Lilies (King’s Treasuries). Ruskin.
Collateral Reading.
Any narrative and descriptive verse rich in ethical and poetical beauty; such as,
- Enoch Arden. Tennyson.
- Snow Bound. Whittier.
- The Eve of St. Agnes. Keats.
- The Golden Legend. Longfellow.
- Tales of a Wayside Inn. Longfellow.
- Drifting. Buchanan Read.
- The Closing Scene. Buchanan Read.
- Nature Lyrics. Lowell.
- Twelfth Night. Shakespeare.
- Midsummer Night’s Dream. Shakespeare.
- The Tempest. Shakespeare.
- As You Like It. Shakespeare.
- The Alhambra. Irving.
- Travels with a Donkey. Stevenson.
- An Inland Voyage. Stevenson.
- South Sea Idyls. Stoddard.
- Lorna Doone. Blackmore.