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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... poems they loved best . Certainly millions of young Americans memorized " Shoot , if you must , this old gray head / But spare your country's flag , ' she said , " from " Barbara Frietchie . " Or declaimed with pride the sonorous lines ...
... poems , arguments and songs , the words that became an enduring part of American culture and that deserve to be recalled , even recited out loud . As choices were made first in 1990 and then again in 2000 , the guiding principle for ...
... poems that they read in school lack the pounding rhythm and the decided rhyme that causes a poem to become a permanent tenant in one's brain . Almost no one memorizes anything anymore ; our nation's pedagogical leaders long ago decided ...
... poem not included here because it is not of American origin . ) It has become commonplace to say that books and the other elements of a verbal culture are passé now that advanced technol- ogy defines our means of communications . Of ...
... poem was signed " Atlanticus , " a pseudo- nym that Paine often used . The " Liberty Tree " was popular for many years , though it has been forgotten in modern times . In a chariot of light from the regions of day , The Goddess of ...