EBOOK GRADED POETRY: SEVENTH YEAR ***
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GRADED POETRY
SEVENTH YEAR
Edited By:
Katherine D. Blake
Principal, Girls' Department Public School No. 6, New York City
and
Georgia Alexander
Supervising Principal, Indianapolis, Indiana
1906
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.
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