The Blue Poetry Book
Book Description
The purpose of this Collection is to put before children, and A fk young people, poems which are good in themselves, and especially fitted to live, as Theocritus says, on the lips of the young. The Editor has been guided to a great extent, in making his choice, by recollections of what particularly pleased himself in youth. As a rule, the beginner in poetry t,likes what is called objective art ver...
MoreThe purpose of this Collection is to put before children, and A fk young people, poems which are good in themselves, and especially fitted to live, as Theocritus says, on the lips of the young. The Editor has been guided to a great extent, in making his choice, by recollections of what particularly pleased himself in youth. As a rule, the beginner in poetry t,likes what is called objective art verse with a story in it, Vthe more vigorous the story the better. The old ballads satisfy this taste, and the Editor would gladly have added more of them, but for two reasons. First, there are parents who would see harm, where children see none, in Tamlane and Clerk Saunders. Next, there was reason to dread that the volume might become entirely too Scottish. It is certainly a ourious thing that, in Mr. Palgrave s Golden Treasury, where some seventy poets are represented, scarcely more than a tenth Lof the number were born north of Tweed. In this l)0()k, however, intended for lads and lassies, the poems by Campbell, by Sir Walter Scott, by Burns, by the Scottish song-writers, and the Scottish minstrels of the ballad, are in an unexpectedly large proportion to the poems by English authors. The Editor believes that this predomiiiitnce of Noribern verse is not due to any exorl)itant local patriotism of his own. The singers of the North, for some reason or other, do excel in poems of action and of adventure, or to him they seem to excel.
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