Rainbow gold poems old and new selected for boys and girls

Rainbow gold; poems old and new selected for boys and girls

POEMS OLD AND NEW SELECTED FOR BOYS AND GIRLS By SARA TEASDALE WITH ILLUSTRATIONS By DUGALD WALKER NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1922 All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Copyright, 1922, By THE MACMILLAN CO. Set up and published September, 1922 COND NAST PRESS GREENWICH, CONN. TO THE BEAUTIFUL MEMORY OF MY FATHER JOHN WARREN TEASDALE Every anthologist must adopt some plan for making selections. Mine has been very simple. I have made a small collection of poems that would have pleased the child I used to be and the boy who was my playmate. Above all things I have striven to keep the book small, for the big books of poetry on our shelves were always left to themselves. It was the little books that became our intimate companions. To make a selection for boys and girls from the countless riches of lyric poetry in our language, and to reduce that selection to the contents of so small a book as this one, is a grave task. It involves the exclusion on the grounds of mere lack of space, of so much that one loves. I should have liked to make a book of this size containing only Elizabethan songs and early English ballads, another entirely devoted to Georgian and Victorian poets, a third to living writers, and a fourth to {6}child-rhymes, parodies, nonsense verses and the like. If the grown-up reader regrets omissions, I beg him to be sympathetic toward the compiler, who has been a prey to those same regrets constantly during the year in which she has been at work on the book. Alas that a volume cannot have the advantages of being both a big book and a little one at the same time! ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67522
Author: Teasdale, Sara
Release Date: Feb 28, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: The MacMillan Company
Publication Date: 1922
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Walker, Dugald Stewart, 1883-1937