Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

Name: Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer
Author: Baldwin, James

Baldwin, James

English poetry

4. Now study each stanza, or each independent thought, in its order, and
endeavor to understand each word or expression just as the poet intended
that it should be understood. The Notes appended to most of the
selections are intended rather to suggest the line of study in this
regard than to serve as exhaustive aids. The pupil should, so far as
possible, investigate for himself and make his own discoveries.
Questions concerning the derivation of words and the syntax of sentences
are to be discussed only so far as they will aid in the understanding of
some passage or of the piece as a whole.

5. Learn some of the most important facts connected with the author's
life. What were the conditions under which he wrote this piece? What was
the character of his education and of the other influences which shaped
his life and distinguished his works? Learn what some of the leading
critics have said concerning his works as a poet.

6. Finally, read the poem again, as a whole, and discuss its qualities
as a work of literary art, and again point out its distinctive beauties
and characteristic excellences.

The extracts given at the beginning of each Century will serve to keep
in mind the leading peculiarities which distinguished the poetry of each
period; and the lists of poets and their works will be found valuable
for purposes of reference. Before beginning the study of the selections
both teacher and pupils should read this Introduction carefully.


FOOTNOTES:

[6:1] See the quotation from Taine, page 15.

[9:1] Frederic Harrison: _On the Choice of Books_.




CONTENTS.


     PRINCIPAL DIVISIONS.

                                                        PAGE
     INTRODUCTION                                          5
     THE NINETEENTH CENTURY                               15
     THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY                               95
     THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY                             157
     THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY                               215
     THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY                               267
     THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY                              285
     INDEX                                               303


POEMS.

     BY ALFRED TENNYSON:--
         The Lady of Shalott                              17
         The Brook                                        25
         The Lotus Eaters                                 28

     BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH:--
         Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of
            Early Childhood                               37
         The Two April Mornings                           49
         The Solitary Reaper                              51

     BY S. T. COLERIDGE:--
         Christabel. Part I                               55

     BY PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY:--
         To a Skylark                                     67
         Hymn of Pan                                      71
         From Epipsychidion                               74

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Six Centuries of English Poetry: Tennyson to Chaucer

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