Author: Norman Hepple

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Published: 2015-07-12

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9781331258605

Excerpt from Lyrical Forms in English: Edited, With Introduction and Notes, for the Use of Schools With so many excellent school-collections of lyrics already in existence, the publication of still another may seem to some superfluous, if not, indeed, impertinent. If such be the case, the aim and plan of this volume must serve as its apology, for the writer is unacquainted with any other selection of lyrical poetry designed to provide material for what seems to be a recent and distinctive method in the teaching of English literature. The days are happily past when the study of literature in our schools meant the study of its history; when our pupils were required to engage in the unprofitable task of learning to associate the titles of some hundreds of books with the names of their authors and the dates of their publication; when it was of more importance to know that Sir John Suckling wrote The Goblins than to have felt the inspiration in a poem by Wordsworth or to have known the poetic richness of a line by Keats. 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.