Lamb.--From the _Essays of Elia_ (Cassell's _National Library_; _Everyman's Library_, _Temple Classics_) read any two of these essays: _A Dissertation upon Roast Pig, Old China, Dream Children, New Year's Eve, Poor Relations_. For selections, see Craik, V., 116-126; _Century_, 575-578; Manly, II., 337-345. In what does Lamb's chief charm consist? Point out resemblances and differences between his _Essays_ and Addison's. Landor, Hazlitt, and Hunt.--Good selections are given in Craik, V.; Chambers, III.; Manly, II. Inexpensive editions of Landor's _Imaginary Conversations_ and _Pericles and Aspasia_ may be found in the _Camelot Series_. Hazlitt's _Characters of Shakespeare's Plays, Lectures on the English Poets, Lectures on the English Comic Writers_, and _Table Talk_ are published in _Everyman's Library_. The _Camelot Series_ and the _Temple Classics_ also contain some of Hazlitt's works. A selection from Leigh Hunt's _Essays_ is published in the _Camelot Series_. What are the main characteristics of Landor's style? Select a passage which justifies the criticism: "He writes in marble." Give some striking thoughts from his _Imaginary Conversations_. Compare his style and subject matter with Hazlitt's. Show that Hazlitt has the power of presenting in an impressive way the chief characteristics of authors. Select some pleasing passages from Leigh Hunt's _Essays_. Compare him with Addison and Lamb. FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER VIII: [Footnote 1: _Prelude_, Book XI.] [Footnote 2: gold.] [Footnote 3: _For a' That and a' That_.] [Footnote 4: _Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle_.] [Footnote 5: _Hart-Leap Well_.] [Footnote 6: _Intimations of Immortality_.] [Footnote 7: Wordsworth's _Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey_.] [Footnote 8: _Retirement_.] [Footnote 9: _Conversation_.] [Footnote 10: _I Love My Jean_.] [Footnote 11: remedy.] [Footnote 12: _Epistle to John Lapraik_.] [Footnote 13: _The Vision_.] [Footnote 14: _Sonnet_: "The world is too much with us."] [Footnote 15: _Hart Leap Well_.] [Footnote 16: _A Day-Dream_.] [Footnote 17: _Biographia Literaria_, Chapter XIV.] [Footnote 18: _Ibid_., Chapter XXII.] [Footnote 19: _Manfred_, Act I.] [Footnote 20: _Childe Harold's Pilgrimage_, Canto III.] [Footnote 21: _The Dream_.] [Footnote 22: _Adonais_, Stanza xlix] [Footnote 23: _Epipsychidion_.] [Footnote 24: _Ode to the West Wind_.] [Footnote 25: For a discussion of the different sensory images of the poets, see the author's _Education of the Central Nervous System_, pages 109-208.] [Footnote 26: _Sleep and Poetry_.] [Footnote 27: For full titles, see p. 50.] [Footnote 28: For full titles, see p. 6.] CHAPTER IX: THE VICTORIAN AGE, 1837-1900