CHISHOLM, LOUEY. The Golden Staircase. Putnam. 1915. Graded poems. "The Golden Staircase has 200 steps. If a child begins to climb when he is four, and climbs twenty steps each year, on his fourteenth birthday he will reach the top." DAVIS, MARY GOULD. Girl's Book of Verse. Stokes. 1922. DRINKWATER, JOHN. 1882— The Way of Poetry. Houghton. 1922. (See also pp. 161, 256) EDGAR, MADALEN G. A Treasury of Verse for Little Children. Crowell. 1914. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Selections for very little children from Tennyson, Blake, Jane Taylor, Edmund Lear, and others. FISH, HELEN. Boy's Book of Verse. Stokes, 1923. FORBES, EDITH EMERSON. Favorites of a Nursery of Seventy Years Ago. Houghton, 1917. Reproductions of the text and pictures of those juvenile poems which have proved to be the best-liked by all children. GRAHAME, KENNETH. 1859 The Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children. Putman. 1916. HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST. 1849-1903. Lyra Heroica: A Book of Verses for Boys. Scribner. 1891. (See also p. 149) HOLLAND, RUPERT SARGENT. 1878 Historic Poems and Ballads. Macrae Smith. 1912. Seventy-five poems, each accompanied by a short sketch telling how it came to be written. "The Charge of the Light Brigade," "The Relief of Lucknow," "Sheridan's Ride," "Barbara Frietchie," etc. INGPEN, ROGER. One Thousand Poems for Children. 1903. Macrae Smith. Lullabies, nursery rhymes, nature poems, ballads, etc., from Tennyson, Wordsworth, Whittier, Shelley, and others. Two hundred poems from many authors: Burns, Lewis Carroll, Marjorie Fleming, Edward Lear, Riley, Shakespeare, and others. (See also pp. 117, 274, 305 and 605) MATTHEWS, (JAMES) BRANDER, 1852— Poems of American Patriotism. Scribner. (See also pp. 222, 224, 228, 269, 326) OLCOTT, FRANCES JENKINS. Story-Telling Poems. Houghton. 1913. QUILLER-COUCH, MABEL and LILIAN. Treasure Book of Children's Verse. Doran. 1911. Classified under "Fairies and Fancies," "Stories in Verse," "Fun and Frolic," "For Sundays and Quiet Days." REPPLIER, AGNES. 1858 A Book of Famous Verse. Houghton. One hundred and fifty poems of martial strain, brave deeds, etc. (See also p. 280) STEVENSON, BURTON EGBERT. 1872 The Home Book of Verse for Young Folks. Holt. 1915. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Taken from "The Home Book of Verse." See above, p. 113; (See also p. 119) STEVENSON, BURTON EGBERT, 1872— and ELIZABETH BUTLER STEVENSON. 1869 Days and Deeds: A Book of Verse. Doubleday. 1906. Poems celebrating seasons and holidays, and great deeds by celebrated Americans. Companion volume to "Days and Deeds: Prose." TEASDALE, SARA. 1884 Rainbow Gold. Macmillan. 1922. (See also pp. 119, 193) THATCHER, MRS. LUCY W. The Listening Child. Macmillan. 1906. Selections from English poets of the last six hundred years, planned especially for reading aloud. TILESTON, MARY WILDER. 1843— Sugar and Spice and All That's Nice. Little, 1910. UNTERMEYER, LOUIS. 1885 This Singing World. Harcourt. 1923. (See also pp. 120, 178, 188) WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. 1807-1892. Child Life. Houghton. (See also p. 169) WIGGIN, KATE DOUGLAS. 1859-1923 and NORA ARCHIBALD SMITH. Pinafore Palace. Doubleday. 1904. Golden Numbers. Doubleday. 1902. A sequence of anthologies, listed here in the order of the ages appealed to. The last, a large collection, is a good selection for all the family. (See also p. 487) 1. What is an anthology? Questions 2. Name four encyclopedic anthologies. 3. What is the standard index to anthologies? 4. Name two biographical and critical anthologies of American poets. 5. What anthology did Humphry Ward edit? 6. What is the most exclusive anthology in the English language? 7. What is the most inclusive anthology in the English language? 8. Has newspaper verse ever been collected? 9. What period does Georgian poetry cover? 10. Who edited an anthology of poems by American Indians? 11. Name an anthology of poems by Roman Catholics. 12. Name six anthologies of open-air verse. 13. Who edited the Golden Treasury of English Songs and Lyrics? 14. Who edited the Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics? 15. Name two anthologies of college verse. 16. Who compiled an anthology of sonnets? 17. What is the title of an anthology by Sara Teasdale? 18. Name two anthology series in foreign tongues. 19. Name an anthology of magazine verse. 20. Name an annual anthology of magazine verse. 21. Who publishes the "Cambridge Book of Poetry"? 22. Who publishes the "Cambridge Book of Poetry for Children"? 23. Name four anthologies of patriotic verse for children. 24. Who edited an anthology of graded poems for children? 25. Name two anthologies of historic poems with explanatory notes. 26. Name an anthology of old-fashioned juvenile verse. 27. Name an anthology by Kenneth Grahame and by E. V. Lucas. CHAPTER X EARLIER ENGLISH POETS The chapter on Reference Books lists a number of works valuable for a general study of this period. Complete Works. Edited by W. W. Skeat. 7 vols. Oxford. Poems. Oxford, 3 vols. World Classics, 1 vol. Standard Authors. Works. Edited by A. W. Pollard. Macmillan, Globe. Canterbury Tales. 3 vols. Houghton, British Poets. The Modern Reader's Chaucer. Edited by J. S. P. Tatlock and Percy MacKaye. Macmillan. Complete works in modern English. Chaucer for Schools. Mrs. H. R. Haweis. Scribner. Studies in Chaucer. By Thomas R. Lounsbury. (1838-1915). 3 vols. Harper. 1891. Professor Lounsbury of Yale was the greatest critical student of Chaucer. His own humor and large humanity were not unlike the poet's, and his book, though the work of a thorough scholar, has no touch of pedantry. Chaucer was the father of English poetry. Spenser called him the "well of English undefyled." Chaucer laid the foundation of our present English tongue by adopting a vocabulary that was a happy fusion of both Norman-French and Saxon speech. Chaucer's poems are usually printed today with a glossary, as a key to his "old English," but it will be found that his language does not vary from our own nearly so much in vocabulary as in spelling. "Chaucer is "the Prince of story-tellers' and the 'Canterbury Tales' -a story-book than which the world does not possess a better." (Alexander Smith.) Many of the tales are borrowed from the "Decameron" of Boccaccio, and few, if any, are of Chaucer's own invention. They were written independently and appeared from |