AmblesideOnline Year 4 Poetry: Tennyson, Dickinson, Wordsworth (annotated)

"The thing is," said Charlotte Mason in a book she wrote for children, "to keep your eye upon words and wait to feel their force and beauty; and, when words are so fit that no other words can be put in their places, so few that none can be left out without spoiling the sense, and so fresh and musical that they delight you, then you may be sure that you are reading Literature, whether in prose or poetry. A great deal of delightful literature can be recognised only by this test." (volume 4)

These poets pass this test. We of the AmblesideOnline Advisory hope that you and the children in your care enjoy these poems as much as we enjoy sharing them with you.