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Title: Good basic older poetry collection
Review: This is an eclectic collection of poems, short essays, and excerpts from English-language literature and history, divided into sections with titles such as "When We Were Very Young" and "Still the Story is Told." It was one of my family's favorite "read to me!" books when I was a child. It also includes a number of poems which are difficult to find in other anthologies, such as Kellogg's "Spartacus to the Gladiators at Capua."Fair warning -- it also includes some items which are representative of their time period, and therefore very un-politically-correct ("The Congo" and "Injun Summer" come to mind).All around, this is a fine introduction to various older poems, and a good reference resource to locate some of those classic pieces that everyone knows but no one can really remember. Also includes useful items such as the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution (as of 1958).
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