Speech on Conciliation with America

A Group of Writers Coming Immediately After Burke

Wordsworth.... 1770-1850

Coleridge..... 1772-1834

Byron....... 1788-1824

Shelley...... 1792-1822

Keats....... 1795-1821

Scott....... 1771-1832

Topics for Special Reports

1. “Like Goldsmith, though in a different sphere, Burke belongs both to the old order and the new.” Discuss that statement.

2. Burke and the Literary Club. (Boswell’s Life of Johnson.)

3. Lives of Burke and Goldsmith. Contrast.

4. An interpretation of ten apothegms selected from the Speech on Conciliation.

5. A study of figures in the Speech on Conciliation.

6. A definition of the terms: “colloquialism” and “idiom” Instances of their use in the Speech on Conciliation.