Edited by FRANCIS STORR, M.A., CHIEF MASTER OF MODERN SUBJECTS AT MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL, LATE SCHOLAR OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND BELL UNIVERSITY SCHOLAR. Small 8vo. Thomson's Seasons: Winter. With an Introduction to the Series. By the Rev. J. FRANCK BRIGHT, M.A., Fellow of University College. Cowper's Task. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. 25. Part I. (Books I. and II.), 9d. Part II. (Books III. and IV.), 9d. Part III. (Books V. and VI.), 9d. Simple Poems from Cowper. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. Scott's Lay of the Last Minstrel. By J. SURTEES PHILLPOTTS, M.A., Head Master of Bedford School. 2s. 6d. Part I. (Canto I. with Introduction), 9d. Part II. (Cantos II. and III.), 9d. Part III. (Cantos IV. and V.), 9d. Part IV. (Canto VI.), 9d. Scott's Lady of the Lake. By R. W. TAYLOR, M.A., Head Master of Kelly College, Tavistock. 25. Part I. (Cantos I. and II.), 9d. Part II. (Cantos III. and IV.), 9d. Part III. (Cantos V. and VI.), 9d. Notes to Scott's Waverley. By H. W. EVE, M.A., Head Master of University College School, London. 15. Twenty of Bacon's Essays. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. IS. By W. E. MULLINS, M.A., Assistant-Master at Marlborough College. 8d. Wordsworth's Excursion.-The Wanderer. By H. H. TURNER, B.A., Scholar of Trinity College, Cambridge. Is. Selections from Wordsworth's Poems. Milton's Paradise Lost. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. Book I. 9d. Book II. 9d. Milton's L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, and Lycidas. By EDWARD STORR, M.A., late Scholar of New College, Oxford. IS. Selections from the Spectator. By OSMUND AIRY, M.A., H. M. Inspector of Schools. IS. Browne's Religio Medici. By W. P. SMITH, M.A., Assistant-Master at Winchester College. Goldsmith's Traveller, and The Deserted Village. IS. By C. SANKEY, M.A., Head Master of Bury St. Edmund's Grammar School. IS. Extracts from Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. By C. SANKEY, M.A. IS. Poems selected from the Works of Robert Burns. By A. M. BELL, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford. Macaulay's Essays: 25. MOORE'S LIFE OF BYRON. BY FRANCIS STORR, M.A. 9d. BOSWELL'S LIFE of Johnson. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. 9d. HALLAM'S CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY. BY H. F. BOYD, late Scholar of Brasenose College, Oxford. IS. Southey's Life of Nelson. Gray's Poems, with Johnson's Life, and Selections from Gray's Letters. By FRANCIS STORR, M.A. IS. RIVINGTONS, LONDON, OXFORD, AND CAMBRIDGE. SIMPLE POEMS FROM COWPER WITH LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES BY FRANCIS STORR, M.A. CHIEF MASTER OF MODERN SUBJECTS AT MERCHANT TAYLORS' SCHOOL I PREFACE HAVE been repeatedly asked by schoolmasters to add to English School-Classics more volumes of the same type and standard as Simple Poems by Mr. Mullins. His little book has been among the most popular of the Series, and the only fault found with it is the uncommon fault of shortness. In choosing Cowper for my purpose I have been guided by several considerations. First, there already exist several excellent selections of English poetry for children, and it would be difficult to improve upon such collections as Mr. Coventry Patmore's Children's Garland, or Mr. Palgrave's Children's Treasury of Lyrical Poetry, or, for a slightly older class, Miss Hertz's Short Readings from English Poetry, and impossible to avoid travelling over the same ground. But however admirable these selections are, most teachers will agree with me that they require more numerous annotations than those for which Mr. Palgrave somewhat needlessly apologizes, to fit them for use as class-books, if a lesson in English is to be made as serious a study and as valuable a piece of mental training as one in Latin or Greek. Having for this reason decided to confine myself to the works of a single author, I had no hesitation in fixing on Cowper. No poet that I know has written so many pieces of true poetry that are at the same time within a child's grasp and on subjects that appeal to a child's imagination. In many of Words |
