VII.

+Odes.+

DRYDEN’S _Alexander’s Feast_.

POPE’S _Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day_.

COLLINS’S _Ode on the Passions_, and other odes.

GRAY’S _Ode on the Progress of Poesy_, and _The Bard_.

KEATS’S _Sleep and Poetry_.

SHELLEY’S _Ode to Liberty_, and _To the West Wind_.

COLERIDGE’S _Ode on France_, and _To the Departing Year_.

WORDSWORTH’S _Ode on the Intimations of Immortality_.

See Husk’s Account of the Musical Celebrations on St. Cecilia’s Day, in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries.

Study the construction of the ode. Compare the English ode with the Greek and Latin ode. Learn something of the odes of Horace.

Write essays on subjects suggested by these studies.