Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all science.

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings, taking its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.

Poetry is the utterance of a passion for truth, beauty, and power, embodying and illustrating its conceptions by imagination and fancy, and modulating its language on the principle of variety and uniformity. LEIGH HUNT: What is Poetry?

[Poetry is] the presentment of the correspondence of the Universe to the Deity, of the natural to the spiritual, and of the actual to the ideal. BROWNING: Essay on Shelley.

BIBLIOGRAPHY TO THE RHETORICAL INTRODUCTION

WINCHESTER, C. T.: Some Principles of Literary Criticism. New

York, 1900.

Boston, 1900.

New York, 1904.

Boston, 1885.

GENUNG, J. F.: The Working Principles of Rhetoric.
JOHNSON, C. F.: Forms of English Poetry,
GUMMERE, F. B.: A Handbook of Poetics.
CORSON, HIRAM: A Primer of English Verse. Boston, 1892.
SHERMAN, L. A.: Analytics of Literature. Boston, 1893.
HILL, A. S.: The Principles of Rhetoric. New York, 1895.
WENDELL, BARRETT: English Composition. New York, 1896.
HART, J. S.: Composition and Rhetoric. Philadelphia, 1882.
HAMILTON, CLAYTON: Materials and Methods of Fiction. New York,
1908.

MINTO, WILLIAM: A Manual of English Prose Literature. Boston, 1893.

BRIGHT, J. W., and MILLER, R. D.: The Elements of English Versification. Boston, 1910.

BATES, ARLO: Talks on the Study of Literature. Boston, 1897. ALDEN, R. C.: An Introduction to Poetry. New York, 1909. LEWIS, C. M.:The Principles of English Verse. New York, 1907. NEILSON, W. A.: Essentials of Poetry. Boston, 1912.

GAYLEY, C. M. and SCOTT, F. N.: An Introduction to the Methods
and Materials of Literary Criticism, Vol. I. Boston, 1899.
PAUL, H. G.: Teaching Lyric Poetry; The English Journal, October
and November, 1912.

CANBY, H. S.: The Short Story in English. New York, 1909.
MATTHEWS, BRANDER: The Short Story.

CANBY, H. S.: A Study of the Short Story.

New York, 1907.

New York, 1913.

GUMMERE, F. B.: The Beginnings of Poetry. New York, 1901.

SUPPLEMENTARY CRITICAL READINGS

RUSKIN, JOHN: "Of the Pathetic Fallacy;" in Modern Painters, Part IV, Chapter XII.

PATER, WALTER: "An Essay on Style;" in Appreciations.

ARNOLD, MATTHEW: "The Study of Poetry;" in Essays in Criticism, Second Series.

ARNOLD, MATTHEW: "The Function of Criticism at the Present Time;" in Essays in Criticism, First Series.

LESSING, G. E.: Laocoön; translated into English by Ellen Frothingham.

STEDMAN, E. C.: The Nature of Poetry.

SHAIRP, J. C.: Aspects of Poetry.

SHAIRP, J. C.: Studies in Poetry and Philosophy.

WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM: Prefaces.

COLERIDGE, S. T.: Bibliographia Literaria.

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PART II

INTENSIVE STUDIES

CHAPTER XI

WASHINGTON IRVING

REFERENCE BIOGRAPHIES

Life, by David J. Hill; New York, 1879.

Life, by Charles Dudley Warner; Boston, 1881.

Life and Letters, 3 Vol., by Pierre L. Irving; New York, 1869.

SUPPLEMENTARY READING

The Sketch Book, Bracebridge Hall, Wolfert's Roost, Tales of a Traveller; and see Appendix I, titles 9 to 24 inclusive.

STRATFORD-ON-AVON

I. Read the Sketch, following the map, and consulting the pictures. Is Irving's purpose to narrate or to describe? Does he describe chiefly to tell the appearance of persons and places, or to reproduce in the reader the effect the visit had on himself, and the thoughts inspired in him by it?

II. Study the Sketch carefully under the following heads; and this time study also the notes in your text:

1. Introduction (paragraphs 1-3). Where did Irving stop when he visited Stratford? Explain the first words of paragraph 2. What figure used in paragraph 1 is continued in paragraph 2? Explain the allusion