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RANDALL, JAMES RYDER.-An American jour-
nalist and poet, born in Maryland, 1839. His spirit-
ed lyric, "My Maryland," written in 1861, was
very popular in the South during the civil war.
Arlington.
Maryland..
READ, THOMAS BUCHANAN.-An American poet,
born in Pennsylvania in 1822. His poems, "Sher-
idan's Ride" and "The Wagoner of the Alleghan-
ies," have achieved wide popularity. Died 1872.
A Glimpse of Love...................
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ROSSETTI, CHRISTINA GEORGINA. - An English
poet, sister of Dante Gabriel, born in 1830.
written "Goblin Market," "The Prince's Pro-
gress," "A Pageant," and other poems.

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ROSSETTI, DANTE GABRIEL.-An English paint-
er and poet, born about 1828. He was the leader
of the movement called Pre-Raphaelitism, an at-
tempt to revive the style of the Italian painters who
preceded Raphael. He published several volumes
of poems. Died 1862.

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RUSKIN, JOHN.-An able, original and copious
author, great English art critic and writer, born in
London, 1819. His works have had a profound in-
fluence on the age, exciting admiration by their
impassioned eloquence and elevating the standard
of morals by their lofty teachings. Besides "The
Seven Lamps of Architecture" and "The Stones
of Venice," he has written many other volumes on
artistic subjects, and is the champion of Pre-
Raphaelitism and Gothic architecture.
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SCHILLER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH VON. - One of
the most illustrious of German poets, born in
Wurtemberg, 1759. His tragedy of "The Rob-
bers," written in his 22d year, raised him at once
to the foremost rank among the dramatists of his
country, while his "Ballads" are reckoned among
the finest in any language. Among the works
which have immortalized his name are 66 Wallen-
stein," "Mary Stuart," "Joan of Arc," and "Wil-
liam Tell."

The Poetry of Life.......
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SCOTT, SIR WALTER.-A celebrated novelist
and poet, born at Edinburgh, 1771. His poems
are characterized by richness of imagination and
brilliancy of coloring, while as a novelist he has
attained the highest rank. Sir Walter Scott, says
a writer in Blackwood, "did for literature what
Shakspere did for the drama,-provided a long and
gorgeous gallery of great, noble and sublime char-
acters, that live in all memories, and become,
though they are fictitious, as real as if we all of us
had actually seen and conversed with them." Died

1832.

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Song: It was a lover and his lass.....183
Song: Sigh.no more, ladies, sigh no more.. 188
Song: Take, oh take those lips away.
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Song: Tell me, where is Fancy bred ?........154
Song: When daffodils begin to peer........315
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Song: Who is Silvia? What is she?..
Sonnet: Let me not to the marriage of
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Sonnet: The forward violet thus did I chide 154
Sonnet: When to the sessions of sweet

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SHAKSPERE, WILLIAM.-The greatest dramatic
genius that ever lived, born at Stratford-upon-Avon
in 1564. He seems to have enjoyed a large measure
of the favor of his sovereigns, Queen Elizabeth and
King James I. Has written thirty-seven plays and
154 sonnets, besides other poems. Died 1616.

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SHELLEY, PERCY BYSSHE.-One of the best of
English poets, born in 1792. Noted for his exquis-
ite imagery and wonderful imagination. Shelley was
early distinguished for his romantic and specula-
tive turn of mind, as well as for a remarkable facil-
ity in the acquisition of every kind of knowledge.
Of singnlar and eccentric habits, he yet possessed
noble traits of character. Among the most exquis-
ite of his poetical creations are: "The Cloud," "To
a Skylark," and "The Sensitive Plant." His "Pro-
metheus Unbound," and "Adonais," an elegy on
the death of John Keats, are well-known. Died
1822.

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Hotspur's Death........

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SHENSTONE, WILLIAM. An English pastoral
poet, born 1714. The "Schoolmistress" is his best
74 known work. Died in 1763.

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SHERIDAN, RICHARD BRINSLEY.- An English
dramatist and statesman, born at Dublin, 1751. His
.530 dramas, "The Rivals" and "School for Scandal,"

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SOUTHEY, CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES. An En-
glish author of wide repute, born 1787. Wrote, be-
sides other works, "Ellen Fitz-Arthur," a poem,
and "The Widow's Tale, and other Poems. In
1839 was married to Robert Southey. Died 1854.
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SOUTHEY, ROBERT.-An English poet and mis-
cellaneous writer, and a poet laureate of England,
born 1774. He was an able and laborious writer,
and his works were voluminous and covered a wide
range of topics. His "Common-place Book," a
posthumous publication in four volumes, is a mar-
velous monument of his reading and research. Died
1843.
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SPENCER, HON. WILLIAM ROBERT.-A distin-
guished English writer, son of Lord Charles Spen-
cer, was born 1770. Died in 1834.

To the Lady Anne Hamilton....................188
SPENSER, EDMUND.-One of the most illustrious
of English poets, born in London about 1553. His
first poem, "The Shepherd's Calendar," he dedica-
ted to Sir Philip Sidney, who became his patron,
and introduced him at court. But his chief poem,
"The Faerie Queene," forms one of the treasures of
our language. Died 1598. Spenser is one of the
most purely poetic of all poets.
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STERLING, JOHN.-A British poet and miscellane-
ous writer, born 1806. Was the author of “Arthur
Coningsby," "Strafford, a Tragedy," and others. His
biography has been written by Carlyle. Died 1844.
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STOWE, HARRIET BEECHER-Daughter of Dr.
Lyman Beecher, born in Connecticut, 1812. Has
obtained a world-wide reputation as the author of
"Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book that has gone
through hundreds of editions and been republished
and translated into all the principal languages of

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SUCKLING, SIR JOHN.-An English poet, born
about 1608, and celebrated as a wit at the court of
Charles I. His reputation rests chiefly on his lyric
poems, but he also wrote several dramas and satires.
Died about 1642.

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SURREY, HENRY HOWARD, EARL OF.-A cele-
brated English poet, born about 1516. He excelled
in the accomplishments of a scholar, courtier and
soldier, and cultivated as well as patronized the fine
arts. Surrey is the first who used blank verse in our
language, and is considered the first English classical
poet. He translated the second book of the Eneid,
and wrote numerous sonnets and songs. Was exe-
cuted in 1547.

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SWAIN, CHARLES.-An English writer and en-
graver, known as "The Manchester Poet," born in
that city in 1803. His "Dryburgh Abbey," an
elegy on Sir Walter Scott, is particularly admired.

Died 1874.

Home Happiness.
The Coquette.....

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SWINBURNE, CHARLES ALGERNON.-An English
poet, born 1887. His first publications were the
following poetical dramas: "The Queen Mother and
Rosamond," "Atalanta in Calydon," and "Chastel-
ard." Has since written a great number of other
works.

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TANNAHILL, ROBERT.-A Scottish poet, born
1774. His songs and ballads are remarkable for
their grace, simplicity and pathos. Died 1810.

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TAYLOR, BENJAMIN F.-A brilliant American
journalist and poet. Born in New York, 1822. Has
written "Pictures in Camp and Field," "The
World on Wheels," and "Songs of Yesterday."
The Burning of Chicago..........
TAYLOR, (JAMES) BAYARD. - A distinguished
American poet, novelist, journalist and traveler.
Born in Pennsylvania in 1825. He wrote "Views
Afoot; or Europe seen with Knapsack and Staff,"
"El Dorado," "Life and Landscapes from Egypt,”
and many other books, records of his travels and
explorations. Was appointed minister to Germany
in 1878, and died at Berlin the same year.
From "The Song of the Camp".
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TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD, D. C. L. and F.
R. S., raised to the peerage in 1883 as Baron Ten-
nyson d'Eyncourt of Aldworth. Poet-laureate of
England. Born in 1809. He is the representative
poet of the recent era. In his poetry the thought
and words are exquisitely adjusted to each other,
producing almost the perfection of poetic form.
"The Princess, A Medley," "In Memoriam,”
"Maud" and the "Idylls of the King" are among
the best known of his longer poems.

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Etude Realiste...........

.166 from Eastern Sources," are well-known.
The Spilt Pearls.........

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TROLLOPE, ANTHONY.-An English novelist, born
1815. Has written a great many books, among
them "Orley Farm," "The Warden," "South Af
rica," and "Life of Cicero." Died 1882.

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TUCKERMAN, HENRY THEODORE.-An American
critic and miscellaneous writer, born in Boston,
1813. Occupies a high rank among the art critics
of America. Died 1871.

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Sonnet, on the Proposition of the N. Y.

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TYCHBORN, CHIDIOCK.-An English poet, who
shared in Babington's conspiracy and was executed
with him in 1586. He was a very young man at the
time. His "Lines Written by One in the Tower"
is the best known of his productions.

Lines Written by One in the Tower.......... 73
VAUGHAN, HENRY.-A British poet and physic-
ian, born in 1621, and called "The Silurist," be-
cause a native of Siluria, or South Wales. Was
the author of devotional poems and other works.
Died 1695.

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VEDDER, DAVID.-A Scottish poet, born in 1790.
Published a number of volumes of prose and verse.
Died 1854.

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WALLER, EDMUND.-An eminent English poet,
born 1605; was a cousin-german of the celebrated
John Hampden. His principal poems are "Pane-
gyric on Cromwell," "On the Death of the Lord
Protector," and an ode to Charles II., entitled "To
the King upon his Majesty's Most Happy Return "
Died 1687.

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master, born about 1566. Is chiefly remembered
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THOREAU, HENRY DAVID.-An American au-
thor and naturalist, born in Mass., 1817, of very
eccentric habits. He lived two years as a hermit in
a small frame house on the shore of Walden Pond,
near Concord, in studious retirement, and publish-
ed an account of this portion of his life in a book
entitled "Walden." Died 1862.

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WEBSTER, AUGUSTA.-An English poet, born
1840. Among her writings are "Prometheus
Bound," after Eschylus, " Medea," after Euripides,
and other volumes of verse besides prose works.
Some of her books are published under the name
of "Cecil Horne." One of the most thoughtful

writers of the modern school.

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WEBSTER, DANIEL. A celebrated American
statesman, jurist, and by many considered "the
greatest orator that ever lived in the Western Hem-
isphere," was born in New Hampshire in 1782. He
was the master-spirit in legislative debate during
his life-time. His reply to Hayne of South Caro-

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