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To Harry De Forest Smith - January 12, 1895, Edwin Arlington Robinson

Edwin Arlington Robinson Letters and Transcriptions

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French And German Translations Of Shakespeare, May Brayton

Manuscript Thesis Collection

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In Story-Land, Elizabeth Harrison

Elizabeth Harrison’s Writings

Twelfth Edition.

Preface

It is not expected that the stories in this book will be told in their present form to Kindergarten children, as experience has shown that each Kindergartner must modify her story to suit the needs and capacities of her children, and must learn to take from any story just so much as may be helpful to her in creating a fresh story for the occasion. It is hoped, however, that they may serve the mother in her home reading with her group of children, and also that my colaborers in primary and second grade schools may sometimes …

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Shakespere [Sic] & His Child Characters, G. May Reeves

Manuscript Thesis Collection

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Majors And Minors, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar Books

Majors and Minors reflects the dual styles of Dunbar's poetry. The "major" poems were works written in standard English, while the "minor" poems were his dialect poems. However, it was the "minors" section which caught the attention of reviewer William Dean Howells, editor of Harper's Weekly. Howells' review of the book singled out and praised Dunbar's use of dialect, bringing national attention to those works to the detriment of his poetry in standard verse.

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