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Committed to memory: 100 best poems to memorize

 By John Hollander

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"Committed to Memory" is a collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particularly intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them.

The poems, which embrace a wide variety of genres, structures and patterns, include old favorites and forgotteen gems. Careful choices were made for the pleasure and reward of younger readers. From Ecclesiastes through the mid-twentieth century, "Committed to Memory" presents poems the reader will delight in memorizing and sharing with friends and family.


No preview available - 1996 - 196 pages - Juvenile Nonfiction

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