The American Reader: Words That Moved a NationHarper Collins, 2000 M09 5 - 656 páginas The American Reader is a stirring and memorable anthology that captures the many facets of American culture and history in prose and verse. The 200 poems, speeches, songs, essays, letters, and documents were chosen both for their readability and for their significance. These are the words that have inspired, enraged, delighted, chastened, and comforted Americans in days gone by. Gathered here are the writings that illuminate -- with wit, eloquence, and sometimes sharp words -- significant aspects of national conciousness. They reflect the part that all Americans -- black and white, native born and immigrant, Hispanic, Asian, and Native American, poor and wealthy -- have played in creating the nation's character. |
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... speaking of a poem : " Read it a hundred times ; it will forever keep its freshness as a petal keeps its fragrance . It can never lose its sense of a meaning that once unfolded by surprise as it went . " I looked for entries that almost ...
... speak to the age of which they are part . " In this revised edition , I am exercising my prerogative as edi- tor and eliminating that section . In effect , I am acknowledging that I have not - after extensive searching - found poems ...
... speak without reference to focus groups or pollsters to learn what people want to hear ; fearful of making a mistake , they use talking points or a text pre- pared by consultants and writers . Pollsters tell us what Introduction xix.
... speak of Interest , not of Reason . Teach your child to hold his tongue , he'll learn fast enough to speak . He that cannot obey , cannot command . The magistrate should obey the Laws , the People should obey the magistrate . He that ...
... speak any of an Enemy . Pay what you owe , and you'll know what's your own . Proclaim not all thou knowest , all thou owest , all thou hast , nor all thou canst . To bear other Peoples Afflictions , every one has Courage enough , and to ...
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