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+Love Lyrics.+

The Songs of the Troubadours. Wyatt’s Poems. Marlowe’s _Passionate Shepherd_. Raleigh’s _The Nymph’s Reply_. Robert Herrick’s Poems. Selections from the poems of Sir John Suckling. The love poems of Robert Burns. Coleridge’s _Genevieve_. Selections from other poets.

Consult Miss Prescott’s _Troubadours and Trouvères_; Warton’s _History of English Poetry_. Study the biographies of Marlowe, Raleigh, Herrick, and Suckling. Read Carlyle’s Essay on _Robert Burns_; and Principal Shairp’s _Burns_, in “English Men of Letters.”