After having made a casual perusal of the course of studies prescribed for the Senior High School classes of this province one might come to the conclusion that the omission of a study of “History of English Literature” constituted a serious weakness that might leave students inade- quately prepared to take up Col- lege work later on.

The purpose of this brief article fs to outline one of the several methods that any teacher may adopt in the study of the Grade XII poetry; and by the adoption give to the students a love of li- terature, an introduction to the

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present by means of a series of : knightly adventures his scheme . e e for an ideal earthly moral code. - Background Gives Life TO [the result of bis dream, “The . Faerie Queene” is incomplete but brilliant. Study Of English Poetry [sock stows shat its aatnor . By Sister St. Dorothy Marie. Ph.D. is not only a master of artictic

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The student must grow up to) the level of the poem before he can experience the direct appeal; and in growing up he will be- come acquainted with the poet and with the age in which the| naif - completed book that ranks poet lived: In other words, the! in the foremost file of the writ- student will be receiving a very} ings of all times and of all peo- fine course in the History of | ples. English Literature. The words of

ALLEGORY

T. S. Eliot in another context apt- ly apply. here: Spenser disclosed to Sir Walter We shall not cease from explora-| Raleigh that his over-all purpose ton; was “to fashion a gentleman in virtuous and gentle discipline.”

And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we start-| He projected twelve books, each

human being in an age of con flict, with all the prejudice and bias that that implies. ‘““The Faer- ie Queene’ is England's first epic and perhaps the world’s only

Classics, an intimacy with a great poet, and the knowledge of a literary age.

In recent years analytic criti-} eism seems to have met with! disfavour. The objector protests

- that he went to enjoy the poem, and to murder it by dissection. Such a protest commands respect.

. Certainly we should want to en- joy the poem, to confront it fully and appreciatively, to contem- Plate its qualities, to realize that it is not the vehicle for the idea— but that it is the idea.

For mature students intuitive: grasp should precede exegesis: but for the student of Grade XH the teacher must be the kindly guide and introduce each poem by way of paraphrase, interpre- ‘ tation, biographical data, literary

IN MEMORIAM

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HORACE ALBERT LING The many relatives and friends

ed, of whichshould present a main wey know the place for the! character representing one of st time.

am twelve virtues, all of which would (T. Ss. Eliot in The Four Quartets) phe embodied by the central fi- Since conviction cannot be gain-| gure of knightly ‘perfection. Prince

ed by generalizations, practical! arthur. who would appear in all application of what has already the books. :

been st i vane will be made by . Spenser's framework for the en- glance at “The Faerie Queene ; : : a literary epic of Edmund S «4 tire poem would involve a twelve- a day feast at the court of Glori- ser which the Grade XH course : offers ana.- Queen of Fairyland. Each " ed day a distressed person would ap- TSE EPIC CONTENT ; pear to ask for a champion Many of the formal definitions 4 ; | against some enemy in the form of the epic lack universality when | ; ; . : > , of dragon or giant. It is obvious tested by application fo the great | : a -. i ‘that Gloriana represents Queen variety of epic literature: yet, all | ,. i : me Elizabeth; Prince Arthur stands scholars are agreed upon the - .. . : ice . for Highmindedness; the Red following principles: The epic : . : : ; | Cross Knight represents Holiness: poem must depict a victorious Una ts Truth: and the hero who represents his country: a eninge ts E or a cause which is triumphant a er in the hero’s victory. It must) pAGEANTRY portray some great and e ; “The send action; and the characters must A selection of Les of be great or noble or impressive.|5it Guyon.” 1s offered in the In other words, there must be |Gtade XH anthology. Sir Guyon (representing Temperance’ sets

a@ certain elevation, an immense ' grandeur and dignity which per-| ut with Prudence and Abstin- rescue the Lady. Alma

vades the whole poem. The action lence to MUUStbe slow and episddical, por- | whé- is reported to have been traying a diffused unity of human despoiled | by the Red Cross interests and experiences: Th e | Kaight... * poem must conform to the rules| This, of course, is a frame-up outlined by Aristotle and examp-| between Archimago and Duessa. lified in the Iliad of Homer and! The knights meet and clash in the Aeneid of Virgil combat.. Error is rectified and THE LITERARY AGE victory gained when the sign of The Elizabethans had to be | the Virgin Mary appears on every shown virtue in action rather; Shield and buckler. Guyon visits than to be told in a dictatorial| the cave of Mammon; over-

ef Horace A. Ling, son of Mr. ‘and Mrs. Albert Ling. Brackley . Beach. P. E. I. were profoundly ghocked and grieved when it be- eame known on Wednesday, Sept- ember 24. 1958. that he had met with an accident on his way home from school and passed away While being rushed to hospital. Horace was the second oldest | of a family of eight and had cele-| brated his twelfth birthday two | weeks previously but accepted re- sponsibility of a much older child. | As he loved to work about the farm only that day he had ex. pressed a desire to remain at home in order to assist with. the harvest. He was a very bright and lovable boy and. a general favorite with evervone. and is sadiy missed by his .manvy’' play- —~Mates ‘at school. as well as in Sunday School which he loved to attend: but it is in the home where the loss is most keenly felt. There are left to cherish. the Memory of a darling son and brother his grief-stricken parents, |

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three brothers and four sisters, | David. Blaine, Hubert. | Brenda and |

namely: Nancy, Linda. Synthia: also his maternal grand- parents and a number of aunts and uncles.

The very large funeral service | heid at his late home was con-| Mitton of | the Charlotietown Baptist church, |

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assisted by Dr. F\ Betts of Win-

_ sloe United Church. who brought |

very comforting and sympathetic messages to those so suddenly * hereaved. The hymns “‘When He Cometh” and “Safe In the Arms

of Jesus were sung. Master Barry Ross. a cousin sang very tender!) ‘God sees a little Spar- | row Fall.”

The pall hearers were: Stanley Skeffingion, Harvey Neill Ax- worthy, David Axworthy. Ralph Younker. Gilbert Neill and Clay- ton Munp. Flower bearers: ville Axworthy, Barry Ross, My- ron Younker, Fulton Ford, Sin- clair Axworthy, Harold Neill and Stephen Younker. Interment was in Portage Cemetery. Funeral Director, Mr. N. D. MacLean.

The hundreds of messages of sympathy received by the family and the following floral tributes

bore silent testimony of the love |

and esieem in which Horace was held. and expressed in some gmail way the symzathy of that great host of friends and acquain-

fashion about its value and im-/| comes the craft of the witch Ac- portance. In no form could this; rasia ‘Intemperance); ruins her action be more vividly -portrayed| domain, the Bower of Bliss; and than in the literary epic which! then enters the Castle of Alma would take the ordinary and raise | Alma shee called was; a virgin it to extraordinary levels bright,

Therefore, Edmund Spenser;That had not yet felt Cupides who possessed poetic gifts, defin- wanton rage; ite religious leanings, and a de-| Yet was shee woo'd of many a sire to constructively critize so-| gentie knight, ciety gave to the world “The! And many a Lord of noble par- Faerie Queene.’ This is the ser- entage ious attempt, the major effort of} Archaic words and Phrases a poet to state in secular terms | abound in this portion of the poem and with all the glowing colours| as well as in the entire epic: of the Renaissance a program of nye, ‘adjoyning, caytive, fiersly. Christian ~humanism an ap-!fayle, fennes. The Elizabethan peal to his countrymen to create an England in which heroic vir- tues would bring a closer av-| proach to the Kingdom of God| # upon earth 4 THE POET }

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serian stanza he presents a full procession of the splendors of poe- tic form and color. The content of this poem shows a human crea- tor displaying a new: world of|

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over to Wordsworth’s “The Pre- lude"’ and w'th certain modifica- tions to Pope's ““‘The Rape of the Lock.”’ The characteristics of this literary age apply to at least six other required poems.

A study similar to this may be adopted with the sonnet, the ly- ric, the ballad, the .elegy, cond the narrative poem and thus the entire course may be consider- ed by literary units rather than by individual selections; by li- terary ages rather than by speci- fie historical” “poets

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