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Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

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Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

American literature

Read the poem through from beginning to end. Then go back to the first
and study it more carefully. Notice that there is no pause at the end of
the first stanza. In the ninth line, mentally put in _how_ after _know_.
Explain what is said about Freedom's training her son. _Loftier office_:
Loftier than what? Note that _might_ is a noun. Mentally insert _hand_
after _courtier's_. Can you tell from the hand of a person whether he
has suffered or not? What does the author mean here by "the weight of
Atlas"? What is a "formless grace"? Is the expression appropriate here?
What characteristic of Lincoln is referred to in the line beginning
"Called mirth"? Are great men so rare as the author seems to think? Why
is the cast a good means of telling of "such a one as he"? Look
carefully at one of Lincoln's portraits, and then read this poem aloud
to yourself.

Compare this poem with the sonnet _On the Life-Mask of Abraham Lincoln_,
page 210.


COLLATERAL READINGS

Abraham Lincoln: A Short Life                    John G. Nicolay
The Boys' Life of Lincoln                        Helen Nicolay
Personal Traits of Abraham Lincoln                  "     "
Lincoln the Lawyer                               F.T. Hill
Passages from the Speeches and Letters
  of Abraham Lincoln                             R.W. Gilder (Ed.)
Lincoln's Own Stories                            Anthony Gross
Lincoln                                          Norman Hapgood
Abraham Lincoln, the Boy and the Man             James Morgan
Father Abraham                                   Ida Tarbell
He Knew Lincoln[6]                                "    "
Life of Abraham Lincoln                           "    "
Abraham Lincoln                                  Robert G. Ingersoll
Abraham Lincoln                                  Noah Brooks
Abraham Lincoln for Boys and Girls               C.W. Moores
The Graysons                                     Edward Eggleston
The Perfect Tribute[6]                           M.R.S. Andrews
The Toy Shop[6]                                  M.S. Gerry
We Talked of Lincoln (poem)[7]                   E.W. Thomson
Lincoln and the Sleeping Sentinel                L.E. Chittenden
O Captain, my Captain!                           Walt Whitman
When Lilacs last in the Dooryard Bloomed          "      "
Poems                                            E.C. Stedman
An American Anthology                            " "     "
American Authors and their Homes, pp. 157-172    F.W. Halsey
American Authors at Home, pp. 273-291            J.L. and J.B. Gilder

For portraits of E.C. Stedman, see Bookman, 34:592; Current Literature,
42:49.




JEAN VALJEAN

AUGUSTA STEVENSON

(Dramatized from Victor Hugo's _Les Misérables_)


SCENE II

TIME: _Evening._

PLACE: _Village of D----; dining room of the Bishop's house._

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Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools: Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists

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