ECAS Third Grading

• William Butler Yeats


  Best known Irish poet in modern times, his early poetry was highly lyrical and musical
• William Butler Yeats


  • When You Are Old
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• John Masefield


  Critic, dramatist, novelist, story writer, and historian
• John Masefield


  • Cargoes
  • Sea Fever
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton


  One of the most colorful writers of recent English literature, excelled as a poet, essayist, pamphleteer, playwright, journalist, and detective story writer
• Gilbert Keith Chesterton


  • The World State
  • The Donkey
• Rupert Brooke


  Outstanding young poet who died in World War I, called a "Golden young Appolo"
• Rupert Brooke


  • The soldier
• Siegfried Sassoon


  Came from a wealthy family
• Siegfried Sassoon


  • Dreamers
• Wystan Hugh Auden


  Noted poet and literary critic
• Wystan Hugh Auden


  • The Unknown Citizen
• Walter de la Mare

  Romanticist who wrote of the world of fantasy and the supernatural with a feeling of wonder and mystery
• Walter de la Mare


  • All but Blind
  • The Listeners
• John Galsworthy


  Became famous for his novels The Island Pharisees, The Man of Property, and The Forsyte Saga
• John Galsworthy


  • Quality
• William Saroyan


  Won instant recognition for a story called "The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze"
• William Saroyan


  • Locomotive
• William Sydney Porter


  One of the most popular short story writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries
• William Sydney Porter


  • The Gift of the Magi
• Sinclair Lewis


  • The Hack Driver
• Joyce Kilmer


  Gay, generous, chivalrous spirit who found joy in writing
• Joyce Kilmer


  • Trees
  • Roofs
• Edwin Arlington Robinson


  Enjoyed great popularity among his countrymen
• Edwin Arlington Robinson


  • Richard Cory
  • Calvary
• Edna St. Vincent Millay


  Best known woman poet of her time, her poems are passionate utterances of joy and pain and are full of imaginative insight
• Edna St. Vincent Millay

  • On Hearing a Symphony of Beethoven
  • God's World
• Amy Lowell


  Became the leader of the "free verse" group that sprang up seemingly overnight
• Amy Lowell


  • Patterns
• Carl Sandburg


  One of the best known poets in contemporary America, in 1916 he won national notice with his Chicago poems
• Carl Sandburg


  • Fog
  • Chicago
• Robert Frost


  Probably the best known poet in contemporary America, his writings were ignored by American publishers for some years
• Robert Frost


  • Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Winthrop Parkhurst


  American playwright known for his sympathy for the less fortunate and oppressed
• Winthrop Parkhurst


  • The Beggar and the King
• Ligaya Victorio Fruto


  Has won much acclaim for her short stories, her work as a cultural assistant at the Philippines consultant-general in Honolulu, Hawaii has given her opportunities to observe how the Filipinos live there
• Ligaya Victorio Fruto


  • Home is where...
• Trinidad Tarrosa Subido


  Signs her name, enrolled at the University of the Philippines as a bachelor of philosophy
• Trinidad Tarrosa Subido


  • Paganly
• Amador T. Daguio


  Won major prizes in fiction and poetry while still a student at the University of the Philippines