Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools / Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED All selections in this book are used by special permission of, and arrangement with, the owners of the copyrights. The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS U.S.A
Transcribers Note: Minor typos have been corrected.
It is pleasant to note, among teachers of literature in the high school, a growing (or perhaps one should say an established) conviction that the pupil's enjoyment of what he reads ought to be the chief consideration in the work. From such enjoyment, it is conceded, come the knowledge and the power that are the end of study. All profitable literature work in the secondary grades must be based upon the unforced attention and activity of the student.
An inevitable phase of this liberal attitude is a readiness to promote the study of modern authors. It is now the generally accepted view that many pieces of recent literature are more suitable for young people's reading than the old and conventionally approved classics. This is not to say that the really readable classics should be discarded, since they have their own place and their own value. Yet it is everywhere admitted that modern literature should be given its opportunity to appeal to high school students, and that at some stage in their course it should receive its due share of recognition. The mere fact that modern writers are, in point of material and style, less remote than the classic authors from the immediate interests of the students is sufficient to recommend them. Then, too, since young people are, in the nature of things, constantly brought into contact with some form of modern literature, they need to be provided with a standard of criticism and choice.
The present volume is an attempt to assemble, in a convenient manner, a number of selections from recent literature, such as high school students of average taste and ability may understand and enjoy. These selections are not all equally difficult. Some need to be read rapidly for their intrinsic interest; others deserve more analysis of form and content; still others demand careful intensive study. This diversity of method is almost a necessity in a full year's course in reading, in which rigidity and monotony ought above all things to be avoided.
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MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS
EDITED
WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS
MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A.
F. HOPKINSON SMITH
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
NOTES
QUESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
AUGUSTA STEVENSON
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
MARY JOHNSTON
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
EDITH M. THOMAS
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
EXERCISES
COLLATERAL READINGS
EDITH M. THOMAS
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
PICTURES
MARY ANTIN
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
WALT WHITMAN
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
WALT WHITMAN
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
WALT WHITMAN
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
EXERCISES
THEME SUBJECTS
COLLATERAL READINGS
TRANSLATED BY GEORGE HERBERT PALMER
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
GEORGE CABOT LODGE
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
EXERCISES
COLLATERAL READINGS
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
DALLAS LORE SHARP
NOTES
QUESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
SARAH ORNE JEWETT
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
RICHARD WATSON GILDER
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
JOHN MUIR
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
JOHN BURROUGHS
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
EXERCISES
HENRY JAMES
NOTES
QUESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
COLLATERAL READINGS
BRET HARTE
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
WOODROW WILSON
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER
NOTES
QUESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
NOTES
COLLATERAL READINGS
LAFCADIO HEARN
NOTES
SUGGESTIONS FOR STUDY
THEME SUBJECTS
SUGGESTIONS FOR WRITING
COLLATERAL READINGS
NOTES
BOOKS FOR READING AND STUDY
EXERCISES IN DRAMATIC COMPOSITION
MODERN BOOKS FOR HOME READING
Not included in the lists of Collateral Readings
BOOKS OF FICTION
NON-FICTION BOOKS
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