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Title: A child's guide to reading
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Macy, John Albert, 1877-1932
Subjects: Books and reading for children Children's literature
Publisher: New York : Baker & Taylor
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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and the poems ofnature in the sections entitled Sea-Drift, By theRoadside, Drum Taps, Memories of PresidentLincoln, Whispers of Heavenly Death. John Greenleaf Whittiek (1807-92). Com-plete Poetical Works.In the Cambridge Edition. Widely loved inAmerica for his popular ballads and songs of com-mon things. In his poems of liberty and in poemsof religious sympathy and faith, the true passion ofthe poet overcomes the technical limitations of hisverse and results in pure poetry. William Woedswoeth (1770-1850). CompletePoetical Wojics.In the Globe Edition. The true Wordsworthianbelieves with Robert Southey that a greater poetthan Wordsworth there never has been nor ever willbe. A serene voice that swelled increasinglythrough a troubled century, and is more and morefelt to have uttered the essential ideas needed inthese hundred years. Yet much of Wordsworth isless than poetic, and the new reader should seekhim first in the selections edited by Matthew Arnoldin the Golden Treasury Series. 142
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WORDSWOKTH CHAPTER VII THE READING OF HISTORY THE plays of Shakespeare which are based uponthe chronicles of English kings are grouped inthe Folio edition of the dramatic works as Histo-ries. It will not surprise any reader, who happensnot to have thought of it before, to learn that theepisodes in Henry IV and Henry V do notfollow the actual course of events in the reigns ofthe real kings; we take it for granted that Shake-sj^eare meant to write historical fiction, and we readthe plays as creations of the poetic imagination.But many readers will be surprised to hear thatmost works which we call historic are likewise fig-ments of the imagination, and that we should readmany of them in somewhat the same spirit as weread the historical plays of Shakespeare or goodhistorical novels. JSTot only do we get the most pleas-ure out of the great historians by regarding theirworks as pieces of artistic writing, but we save our-selves from the error of accepting their narrativesas fact. For it is

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