EVOLUTION OF EXPRESSION

BY CHARLES WESLEY EMERSON

FOUNDER OF EMERSON COLLEGE OF ORATORY, BOSTON

A COMPILATION OF SELECTIONS ILLUSTRATING THE FOUR STAGES OFDEVELOPMENT IN ART AS APPLIED TO ORATORY IN FOUR VOLUMES, WITH KEYTO EACH CHAPTER

THIRTY-THIRD EDITION

VOLUME I—REVISED

TO MY STUDENTS Whose need has been my inspiration and whoseunderstanding my rich reward, these volumes are affectionatelyDEDICATED

CONTENTS.

INTRODUCTIONANIMATIONANALYSISSMOOTHNESSVOLUMEFORMING THE ELEMENTS

CHAPTER I.

THE TEA-KETTLE AND THE CRICKET Charles Dickens
THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN Robert Browning
GROUP OF LYRICS:
  PIPPA PASSES Robert Browning
  THE SNOWDROP Alfred Tennyson
  THE THROSTLE Alfred Tennyson
  ONE MORNING, OH, SO EARLY Jean Ingelow
FREEDOM John Ruskin
A LAUGHING CHORUS
THE CHEERFUL LOCKSMITH Charles Dickens
HOME THOUGHTS FROM ABROAD Robert Browning
LOCHINVAR Sir Walter Scott
THE POLISH WAR SONG James G. Percival

CHAPTER II.

THE VILLAGE PREACHER Oliver Goldsmith
TO THE DAISY William Wordsworth
PSALM XXIII David
EXTRACT FROM EULOGY ON
WENDELL PHILLIPS George William Curtis
THE BROOK Alfred Tennyson
OLD AUNT MARY'S James Whitcomb Riley

CHILD VERSE:
MY SHADOW Robert Louis Stevenson
THE SWING Robert Louis Stevenson
THE LAMPLIGHTER Robert Louis Stevenson
WAITING John Burroughs

CHAPTER III.

THE REVENGE Alfred Tennyson
THE OCEAN Lord Byron
SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS
AT CAPUA Rev. Elijah Kellogg
TELL TO HIS NATIVE MOUNTAINS, James Sheridan Knowles
BATTLE HYMN Karl Theodor Korner
SELF-RELIANCE Ralph Waldo Emerson
ADAMS AND JEFFERSON Daniel Webster
THE DEFENCE OF LUCKNOW Alfred Tennyson

SONNETS:

KEATS

WORDSWORTH

MILTON

ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING
IS THERE FOR HONEST POVERTY Robert Burns

CHAPTER IV.

HAMLET TO THE PLAYERS William Shakespeare

THE BOY AND THE ANGEL Robert Browning

SPEECH AND SILENCE Thomas Carlyle
THE RICH MAN AND THE POOR
MAN Khemnitzer

GATHERING OF THE FAIRIES Joseph Rodman Drake

THE SONG OF THE RAIN Spectator

HEARTY READING Sidney Smith

IVRY Lord Macaulay

THE DAFFODILS William Wordsworth

CHEERFULNESS J. H. Friswell

APRIL IN THE HILLS Archibald Lampman

INTRODUCTION.

    Teach me, then,
    To fashion worlds in little, making form,
    As God does, one with spirit,—be the priest
    Who makes God into bread to feed the world.
    —Richard Hovey.

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