“It will be readily seen that if the poems become real and vivid to them, the children gain, besides the immediate joy in the life represented, and the right training of the emotions… they gain, I say, besides this, exercise to their own imagination; the wings of their fancy become fledged, and they can fly at will.”
Rev. H. C. Beeching, “An Address on the Teaching of Poetry,” Parent’s Review, Vol 3
Suggested Poets for Form I (Grades 1-3)
Biblical Psalms
Eugene Field
Edgar Albert Guest
Charles and Mary Lamb
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Christina Rossetti
Robert Lewis Stevenson
Suggested Poets for Form II (Grades 4-6)
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Henry van Dyke
Robert Frost
Rudyard Kipling
Alfred Noyes
Edgar Allan Poe
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Wordsworth
Suggested Poets for Form III (Grades 7-9)
Emily Dickinson
William Cowper
John Donne
George Herbert
John Keats
Amy Lowell
John Milton
William Shakespeare
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Henry Vaughan
Suggested Poets for Form IV (Grades 10-12)
Robert Burns
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Walter Whitman
Richard Wilbur
William Butler Yeats
Khalil Gibran…?
That would be a nice poet for 10-12. Maybe a little Eastern, but still just as profound as the others on the list.
So glad to see this blog updated all modern-like!