VIII.

+Elegies.+

Study Milton’s _Lycidas_. Read selections from Spenser’s _Astrophel_; Shelley’s _Adonais_; Tennyson’s _In Memoriam_; _Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington_; Pope’s _Elegy on an Unfortunate Lady_. Study Gray’s _Elegy in a Country Churchyard_; The Dirge in _Cymbeline_; and Collins’s _Dirge in Cymbeline_. Read Shenstone’s _Elegies_; Cowper’s _The Castaway_; and Bryant’s _Thanatopsis_.

For references to Milton and Spenser, see other schemes. For Shelley’s _Adonais_, see Hutton’s _Essays_. See F. W. Robertson’s _Analysis of In Memoriam_. See also, for subjects connected with these studies, Roscoe’s _Essays_; Hazlitt’s _English Poets_; Dr. Johnson’s _Life of Gray_; E. W. Gosse’s _Gray_, in “English Men of Letters;” Parke Godwin’s _Life of William Cullen Bryant_.