Goldwin Smith's _Life of Cowper_. (E.M.L.) Wright's _Life of Cowper_. Shairp's _Robert Burns_. (E.M.L.) Carlyle's _Essay on Burns_. Lockhart's _Life of Scott_., Hutton's _Life of Scott_. (E.M.L.) Yonge's _Life of Scott_. (G.W.) Goldwin Smith's _Life of Jane Austen_. (G.W.) Helm's _Jane Austen and her Country House Comedy_. Mitton's _Jane Austen and her Times_. Adams's _The Story of Jane Austen's Life_. Knight's _Life of Wordsworth_, 3 vols., Myers's _Life of Wordsworth_ (E.M.L.), Raleigh's _Wordsworth_. Robertson's _Wordsworth and the English Lake Country_. Traill's _Life of Coleridge_ (E.M.L.), Caine's _Life of Coleridge_ (G.W.), Garnett's _Coleridge_. Sneath's _Wordsworth, Poet of Nature and Poet of Man_. Mayne's _The New Life of Byron_, 2 vols, Nichol's _Life of Byron_ (E.M.L.), Noel's _Life of Byron_. (G.W.) Trelawney's _Recollections of the Last Days of Shelley and Byron_. Dowden's _Life of Shelley_, 2 vols., Symonds's _Life of Shelley_ (E.M.L.), Sharp's _Life of Shelley_ (G.W.). Francis Thompson's _Shelley_. Clutton-Brock's _Shelley: The Man and the Poet_. Hogg's _Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley_(contemporary). Angeli's _Shelley and his Friends in Italy_. Colvin's _Life of Keats_ (E.M.L.), Rossetti's _Life of Keats_ (G.W.), Hancock's _John Keats_. Miller's _Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley, and Keats_. Arnold's _Essays in Criticism, Second Series_ (Keats). H. Buxton Forman's _Complete Works of John Keats_ (includes the _Letters_, the best edition). Masson's _Life of De Quincey_. (E.M.L.) Minto's _Manual of English Prose Literature_ (De Quincey). SUGGESTED READINGS WITH QUESTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS Blake.--Some of his best poems are given in Ward, IV., 601-608; Bronson, III., 385-403; Manly, I., 301-304; _Oxford_, 558-566; _Century_, 485-489, and in the volume in _The Canterbury Poets_. Point out in Blake's verse (_a_) the new feeling for nature, (_b_) evidences of wide sympathies, (_c_) mystical tendencies, and (_d_) compare his verses relating to children and nature with Wordsworth's poems on the same subjects. Cowper.--Read the opening stanzas of Cowper's _Conversation_ and note the strong influence of Pope in the cleverly turned but artificial couplets. Compare this poem with the one _On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture_ or with _The Task_, Book IV., lines 1-41 and 267-332, Cassell's _National Library, Canterbury Poets_, or _Temple Classics_ and point out the marked differences in subject matter and style. What forward movement in literature is indicated by the change in Cowper's manner? _John Gilpin_ should be read for its fresh, beguiling humor. For selections, see Bronson,[28] III., 310-329; Ward, III., 422-485; _Century_, 470-479; Manly, I., 285-294. Burns.--Read _The Cotter's Saturday Night, For a' That and a' That, To a Mouse, Highland Mary, To Mary in Heaven, Farewell to Nancy, I Love My Jean, A Red, Red Rose_. The teacher should read to the class parts of _Tam o' Shanter_.