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    Graded Poetry: Third Year
    Graded Poetry: Third Year
    Graded Poetry: Third Year
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    Graded Poetry: Third Year

    By Georgia Alexander and Katherine Devereux Blake

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Graded Poetry - Georgia Alexander

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Graded Poetry: Third Year, by Various

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      Title: Graded Poetry: Third Year

      Author: Various

      Editor: Katherine D. Blake

      Georgia Alexander

      Release Date: April 12, 2010 [EBook #31967]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK GRADED POETRY: THIRD YEAR ***

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      GRADED POETRY

      THIRD YEAR

      EDITED BY

      KATHERINE D. BLAKE

      PRINCIPAL GIRLS' DEPARTMENT PUBLIC SCHOOL NO. 6,

      NEW YORK CITY

      AND

      GEORGIA ALEXANDER

      SUPERVISING PRINCIPAL, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

      NEW YORK

      MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.

      1906

      Copyright, 1905,

      BY

      MAYNARD, MERRILL, & CO.

      INTRODUCTION

      Poetry is the chosen language of childhood and youth. The baby repeats words again and again for the mere joy of their sound: the melody of nursery rhymes gives a delight which is quite independent of the meaning of the words. Not until youth approaches maturity is there an equal pleasure in the rounded periods of elegant prose. It is in childhood therefore that the young mind should be stored with poems whose rhythm will be a present delight and whose beautiful thoughts will not lose their charm in later years.

      The selections for the lowest grades are addressed primarily to the feeling for verbal beauty, the recognition of which in the mind of the child is fundamental to the plan of this work. The editors have felt that the inclusion of critical notes in these little books intended for elementary school children would be not only superfluous, but, in the degree in which critical comment drew the child's attention from the text, subversive of the desired result. Nor are there any notes on methods. The best way to teach children to love a poem is to read it inspiringly to them. The French say: The ear is the pathway to the heart. A poem should be so read that it will sing itself in the hearts of the listening children.

      In the brief biographies appended to the later books the human element has been brought out. An effort has been made to call attention to the education of the poet and his equipment for his life work rather than to the literary qualities of his style.

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