Date of Award
8-1935
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
First Advisor
J. Gordon Eaker
Keywords
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850, Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract
The subject of this study was suggested by an undergraduate course which centered around the poet, Wordsworth. The aim of this thesis is to suggest a means whereby the poetry of Wordsworth can be made interesting to high school students. To attain this end certain sources of human interest materials were employed, two of the most important of which are Dorothy Wordsworth's Journals and Wordsworth's own comments which throw light on the meaning of his poems.
The problem of this thesis has been to select certain or Wordsworth' a poems that are included in high school literature textbooks, in addition to others that are suitable for high school study, and to gather together the material containing human interest elements which may cause these same poems to be of interest to the students.
The general method of treatment was to group the poems into ballads or short narratives, nature lyrics, sonnets, long narratives, and odes. Each group was followed through separately by introducing it with a limited amount of information concerning the content and general characteristics of the group as a whole, by presenting human interest.
Recommended Citation
Overley, Elva Edith, "Appreciations of Wordsworth's poems suitable for high school study" (1935). Electronic Theses & Dissertations. 747.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/etd/747
