Author: John SwettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for Declamation, Recitation, and Elocutionary Readings in Common Schools
Author: John SwettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Elocution
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The California Teacher
Author: Heart Beats
Author: Catherine RobsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691163375
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Many people in Great Britain and the United States can recall elderly relatives who remembered long stretches of verse learned at school decades earlier, yet most of us were never required to recite in class. Heart Beats is the first book to examine how poetry recitation came to assume a central place in past curricular programs, and to investigate when and why the once-mandatory exercise declined. Telling the story of a lost pedagogical practice and its wide-ranging effects on two sides of the Atlantic, Catherine Robson explores how recitation altered the ordinary people who committed poems to heart, and changed the worlds in which they lived. Heart Beats begins by investigating recitation's progress within British and American public educational systems over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and weighs the factors that influenced which poems were most frequently assigned. Robson then scrutinizes the recitational fortunes of three short works that were once classroom classics: Felicia Hemans's "Casabianca," Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," and Charles Wolfe's "Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna." To conclude, the book considers W. E. Henley's "Invictus" and Rudyard Kipling's "If--," asking why the idea of the memorized poem arouses such different responses in the United States and Great Britain today. Focusing on vital connections between poems, individuals, and their communities, Heart Beats is an important study of the history and power of memorized poetry.
Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1022
Book Description
A monthly register of the most important works published in North and South America, in India, China, and the British colonies: with occasional notes on German, Dutch, Danish, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian books.
The Massachusetts Teacher
Author: The American Educational Monthly
Author: The Illinois Teacher
Author: Trübner's American and Oriental Literary Record
Author: Nicolas TrübnerBibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Common School Readings
Author: John SwettPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780266738367
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Excerpt from Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for Declamation, Recitation, and Elocutionary Readings in Common Schools School Speakers practically exclude them from schools below the grade of High Schools. A book of medium size, and reasonable price, seems to be tneeded for our Common Schools. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.