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poetry. I have been obliged to make it a strictly pre- 
liminary course, and [ have designed it for the use of pupils 
between the ages of 12 and 17. Those who continue their 
studies after their 16th year usually read for some Univer- 
sity Degree, and.it is not with students of this age, and 
their requirements, that this paper primarily deals. I 
would also have it understood that the age of the pupil is 
not a matter of the first consequence, but rather his capacity 
and especially his bent or inclination towards such subjects 
as that I am dealing with. I am well aware that many 
children have no natural taste for poetry or for anything 
allied to it, yet I cannot recommend any compulsion, mild 
or severe, in these cases, for I am sure it can only replace 
indifference by dislike, and want of taste by distaste. Very 
. much must be left to the personal influence and judicious 
methods of encouragement of the teacher himself. 
I must add that the scheme here proposed is by no means 
comprehensive. My object has been rather to indicate the 
class or grade of poem suitable for each period than to give 
a complete list of works to be read. Many old favourites 
will be missed, some omitted simply because to mention all 
would be beyond the scope of this paper, and some because 
I have hardly thought them eligible, in spite of their 
popularity. 
First Year (12th to 14th years). 
Blake: “‘Songs of Innocence.” 
Wordsworth: The simple Ballads of 1798 to 1807. 
Percy’s Reliques: “Chevy Chase,” “Sir Patrick Spence,”’ 
&e. 
Coleridge: ‘“‘ Ancient Mariner.” 
Henley’s “ Lyra Heroica.”’ 
Scott: The Romantic Poems. 
Macaulay’s “Lays of Ancient Rome” and ‘The Armada.”’ 
Tennyson: Patriotic Ballads; “ The Revenge,” ke. 
Seconp Year (14th to 15th years). 
Tennyson: “Idylls of the King”; “ Enoch Arden.”’ 
Shakespeare: “ Henry V.”’; ‘‘ The Merchantof Venice”’; 
“ Julius Cesar’; ‘ Coriolanus.”’ 
Coleridge: ‘‘ Christabel”’; ‘‘ Kubla Khan.” 
Barham: “ Ingoldsby Legends.” 
Wordsworth: “ Peter Bell’; ‘The Waggoner”; “ Hart- 
Leap Well.” 
Chapman’s “ Odyssey.’ 
