28 UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO STUDIES 



drama from the chantlike recitative of Corneille to the tensest and 

 most straightforward prose. 



Let us review: Two years of literary study of folk-lore, of verse 

 form, of rhythm, with much memorizing of German lyric, and an 

 analysis of the incomparable Faust; a year of Italian, culminating 

 in the Paradiso of Dante; two years of French stories, of Moliere 

 and the emancipation of the drama — in all, only a third of a boy's 

 school time for five years, making the complete round of the highest 

 expression of modern literary form — Germany for the lyric, Italy 

 for the epic and France for the drama. Whether one year or five, 

 no year should be taken without returning an eternal possession of 

 poetry, of art, of fulness of life, that can be attained as well in no 

 other way. 



