Compare the death (or passing) of Arthur in Malory with Tennyson's _The Passing of Arthur._ What special dualities do you notice in the manner of Malory's telling a story? Is his work original? Why has it remained so popular? What age specially shows its influence? More.--The English translation of the _Utopia_ may be found entire in _Everyman's Library_ (35¢). There are good selections in Craik, I., 162-167. What is the etymological meaning of _Utopia_? What is its modern significance? Did More really give a new word to literature and speech? The _Utopia_ should be read for an indication of the influence of the Renaissance and for comparison with twentieth-century ideas of social improvement. Tyndale.--Bosworth and Waring's _Gospels_, containing the Anglo-Saxon, Wycliffe, and Tyndale versions. Specimens of Tyndale's prose are given in Chambers, I., 130; Craik, I., 185-187. Why is Tyndale's translation of the _Bible_ important to the student of literature? What are some special dualities of this translation? Early Scottish Poetry.--Selections from fifteenth-century Scottish poetry may be found in Bronson, I, 170-197; Ward, I, _passim_; P. & S., 246-277; _Oxford_, 16-33. From the _King's Quair_ and the poems of Henryson, Dunbar, and Gawain Douglas, select passages that show first-hand intimacy with nature. Compare these with lines from any poet whose knowledge of nature seems to you to be acquired from books. Ballads.--Ward. I., _passim_, contains among others three excellent ballads,--_Sir Patrick Spens, The Twa Corbies, Robin Hood Rescuing the Widow's Three Sons_. Bronson, I., 203-254; P. & S., 282-301; _Oxford_, 33-51; and Maynard's _English Classics_, No. 96, _Early English Ballads_ also have good selections. The best collection is Child's _The English and Scotch Popular Ballads_, 5 vols. What are the chief characteristics of the old ballads? Why do they interest us today? Which of those indicated for reading has proved most interesting? What influence impossible for other forms of literature, was exerted by the ballad? What did Autolycus mean (_Winter's Tale_, IV., 4) when he offered "songs for man or woman, of all sizes"? Have any ballads been written in recent times? Wyatt and Surrey.--Read two characteristic love sonnets by Wyatt and Surrey, P. & S., 313-319; Ward, I., 251, 257; Bronson, II., 1-4. A specimen of the first English blank verse employed by Surrey in translating Vergil's, _AEneid_ is given in Bronson, II., 4, 5; in P. & S., 322, 323; and Chambers, I., 162. Why are Wyatt and Surrey called amourists? What contributions did they make to the form of English verse? What foreign influences did they help to usher in? FOOTNOTES TO CHAPTER III: [Footnote 1: _Knightes Tale_.] [Footnote 2: _Testament of Cresseid_.] [Footnote 3: _The Cloud_.] [Footnotes 4-6: _The Golden Targe_.] [Footnote 7: _Prologue to AEneid_, Book XII.] [Footnote 8: _The Winter's Tale_, IV., 4.]