The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 5. 9. 2000. - 656 страница The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... written before the mid - twentieth century , were written to be declaimed . Poems and songs , of course , are meant to be recited or sung aloud , not just read silently . Poetry works best when it is spoken and heard . Young people don ...
... written language . If anything , knowledge of language and the need for accuracy of expression have become even more important than ever . Some think that reading , too , is obsolete , but book sales seem to be higher than ever , and ...
... writing the History of Plimouth Plantation in 1630 and completed it in 1651. His description of the hard life facing the Pilgrims when they first arrived on shore is a classic of American literature . eing thus arrived in a good harbor ...
... writing . Sell not virtue to purchase wealth , nor Liberty to purchase power . The ancients tell us what is best ; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest . Drive thy Business , let not that drive thee . Each year one vicious ...
... writing his autobiography in 1771 and continued it until just before his death in 1790. In it , he described " the bold and arduous project of arriving at moral perfection . " He drew up a list of the virtues , made a book in which each ...