Schoolroom Poets: Childhood, Performance, and the Place of American Poetry, 1865-1917

by Angela Sorby

Winner of the Children's Literature Association Honor Book (2007) As recently as the 1960s, children across America continued to recite in schoolrooms or on auditorium stages poems of strong emotional resonance such as "Paul Revere's Ride," "Little Orphan Annie," and "The Song of Hiawatha." Many still remember poems with soft rhythmic cadences such as "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" as bedtime verse read to them by their parents. According to Angela Sorby,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584654589
• ISBN13: 9781584654582
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"