From the stanzas indicated in _Childe Harold_, select, first, the passages which best illustrate the spirit of revolt, and, second, the passages of most poetic beauty. What natural phenomena appeal most to Byron? What qualities make _The Prisoner of Chillon_ a favorite? Why is his poetry often called rhetorical? Shelley.--Read _Adonais, To a Skylark, Ode to the West Wind, To Night, The Cloud, The Sensitive Plant_, and selections from _Alastor_ and _Prometheus Unbound_. Shelley's _Poetical Works_, edited by Edward Dowden (_Globe Poets_), contains all of Shelley's extant poetry. Less expensive editions are in _Canterbury Poets, Temple Classics_, and _Everyman's Library_. Selections are given in Bronson, IV., 182-227; Ward, IV., 348-416; Page, 275-369; _Oxford_, 697-717; _Century_, 614-638; Manly, I., 394-411. Under what different aspects do _Adonais_ and _Lycidas_ view the life after death? Has Shelley modified Wordsworth's view of the spiritual force in nature? Does Shelley use either the cloud or the skylark for the direct purpose of expressing his own feelings? Why is he sometimes called a metaphysical poet? What is the most striking quality of Shelley's poetic gift? Keats.--Read _The Eve of St. Agnes_, _Ode to a Nightingale_, _Ode on a Grecian Urn_, _To Autumn_, _Hyperion_ (first 134 lines), _La Belle Dame sans Merci_, _Isabella_, and the sonnets: _On First Looking into Chapman's Homer_, _On the Grasshopper and Cricket_, _When I have Fears that I May Cease to Be_, _Bright Star! Would I Were Steadfast as Thou Art_. The best edition of the works of Keats is that by Buxton Forman. The _Canterbury Poets_ and _Everyman's Library_ have less expensive editions. All the poems indicated above may be found in Page's _British Poets of the Nineteenth Century_. For selections, see Bronson, IV., 230-265; Ward, IV., 427-464; _Oxford_, 721-744; _Century_, 639-655; Manly, I., 413-425. By direct reference to the above poems, justify calling Keats "the apostle of the beautiful," in both thought and language. Give examples of his felicitous use of words and phrases. Show by illustrations his mastery in the use of the concrete. To what special senses do his images appeal? Was he at all affected by the new human movement? Why does Arnold say, "Keats is with Shakespeare"? In what respects is he like the Elizabethans? De Quincey.--Read _Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow_ (Craik, V., 264-270). The first chapters of _The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater_ (_Everyman's Library_; _Temple Classics_; _Century_, 683-690; Manly, II., 357-366) are entertaining and will repay reading. Does his prose show any influence of a romantic and poetic age? Compare his style with that of Addison, Gibbon, and Burke. In what respects does De Quincey succeed, and in what does he fail, as a model for a young writer?