Readings in American Poetry: For the Use of Schools (Classic Reprint)

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Tats volume includes some of the best poems of our best poets - the most beautiful illustrations of the thought and fancy and feeling of the country - the finest Specimens of its literary art. It is designed as a gift book, fragrans ct perennis in its character, suitable for every season, and for the finest intelligences - embracing instead of the ephemera usually found in gift books, such productions as have received the final approval of criticism, and have be come classical. Iit is designed by the publisher to embel lish itin a style suitable for a souvenir, so that in every respect it may receive the applause to which it is entitled by the merit of its literary contents.

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