Author: Samuel Thurber

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-05

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9780428405205

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Excerpt from Milton Minor Poems: L'allegro; Arcades; On Shakespeare; IL Penseroso; On the Nativity; At a Solemn Music; Comus; Lycidas; Sonnets The average pupil will not at first read anything of Mil ton with perfect enjoyment. He will, with his' wonted docility, commit passages to memory, and he will do his best to speak these passages with the elocution on which you insist. But the taste for this poetry is an acquired one, and in the acquisition usually costs efforts quite alien to the prevailing conceptions of reading as a pleasurable recreation. The task of pedagogy at this point becomes delicate. First of all, the teacher must recognize the fact that his class will not, however good their intentions, leap to a liking for Comus or Ly cidas or en an to Que. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Download or read book Milton Minor Poems written by Samuel Thurber and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Milton Minor Poems: L'allegro; Arcades; On Shakespeare; IL Penseroso; On the Nativity; At a Solemn Music; Comus; Lycidas; Sonnets The average pupil will not at first read anything of Mil ton with perfect enjoyment. He will, with his' wonted docility, commit passages to memory, and he will do his best to speak these passages with the elocution on which you insist. But the taste for this poetry is an acquired one, and in the acquisition usually costs efforts quite alien to the prevailing conceptions of reading as a pleasurable recreation. The task of pedagogy at this point becomes delicate. First of all, the teacher must recognize the fact that his class will not, however good their intentions, leap to a liking for Comus or Ly cidas or en an to Que. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.