Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools

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Title: Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools
Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists
Author: Various
Editor: Margaret Ashmun
Release Date: November 26, 2005 [EBook #17160]
Language: English
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MODERN PROSE AND POETRY FOR SECONDARY
SCHOOLS
EDITED
WITH NOTES, STUDY HELPS, AND READING LISTS
BY

MARGARET ASHMUN, M.A.
Formerly Instructor in English in the University of Wisconsin Editor of
Prose Literature for Secondary Schools
BOSTON NEW YORK CHICAGO
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN
COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

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The Riverside Press
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS
U.S.A

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The following symbols are used:
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DIACRITICAL MARK SAMPLE ABOVE BELOW macron
(straight line) &hibar; [=x] [x=] 2 dots (diaresis, umlaut) ¨ [:x] [x:]
1 dot {~BULLET~}
[.x] [x.]
grave accent ` [`x] or [\x]
[x`] or [x\]
acute accent (aigu) ´ ['x] or [/x]
[x'] or [x/]
circumflex ^ [^x]
[x^]
caron (v-shaped symbol) [vx]
[xv]
breve (u-shaped symbol) [)x]
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tilde ~ [~x]

[x~]
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[x,]

Also words italicized will have undescores _ before and after them and
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Footnotes have been moved to the end of the text. Minor typos have
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PREFACE
It is pleasant to note, among teachers of literature in the high school, a
growing (or perhaps one should say an established) conviction that the
pupil's enjoyment of what he reads ought to be the chief consideration
in the work. From such enjoyment, it is conceded, come the knowledge
and the power that are the end of study. All profitable literature work in
the secondary grades must be based upon the unforced attention and
activity of the student.
An inevitable phase of this liberal attitude is a readiness to promote the
study of modern authors. It is now the generally accepted view that
many pieces of recent literature are more suitable for young people's
reading than the old and conventionally approved classics. This is not
to say that the really readable classics should be discarded, since they
have their own place and their own value. Yet it is everywhere admitted
that modern literature should be given its opportunity to appeal to high
school students, and that at some stage in their course it should receive
its due share of recognition. The mere fact that modern writers are,