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Parlour Poetry

Michael R. Turner

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Description:"It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse And the cold bare walls are bright..." How does the next line run? How long is it since you last thrilled to the heroic story of "Casabianca", the boy on the burning deck? — or gasped as Bessie swung out over the city, clinging to the tongue of the great bell and swearing, "Curfew shall not ring tonight?" — or shuddered at the hideous fare of Mad Carew, who robbed the Little Yellow God of its Green Eye? — or lost your heart to the young Lochinbar? — or wept at the pathetic fate of Little Jim? — or firmly resolved to "Play up! play up! and play the game!"?Generations of well-brought-up children recited these verses to their admiring elders in front parlours from Sydenham to Sydney, from Peckham to Pekin (Illinois). Full of beautiful and soul-stirring ideas, they brought tears to the eyes and noble resolutions to the hearts of their auditors. Today, the inspired composers of most of these Favourite Poems are mostly forgotten. Less than a century ago Felicia Hemans, Martin Farquhar Typper and Eliza Cook shared the throne of Most Noble Poets of Humanity with Burns, Wordsworth and Byron. This collection sets them on their pedestal again, the Hon. Mrs. Norton and Adelaide A. Procter beside Tennyson and Browning. Many of the poems, though, are magnificent by any standards, and are undeservedly neglected or dismissed today.Literary critics may sniff disdainfully at this neglected branch of our poetic heritage, and some misguided readers, we fear, may find certain verses richly comic. But here they are to be enjoyed again, embellished with decorative engravings of the period as well as illuminating notes and biographies. Here are those affecting ballads of mothers perishing in snowstorms, of pious children early cut off in tragic circumstances, of patriotic soldiers falling in foreign lands, together with the grandest and most stirring thoughts: the best-loved Poetic Gems of the age that ended with the decease of Queen Victoria.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Parlour Poetry. To get started finding Parlour Poetry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 1969

ISBN: 0670540315

Description: "It is Christmas Day in the Workhouse And the cold bare walls are bright..." How does the next line run? How long is it since you last thrilled to the heroic story of "Casabianca", the boy on the burning deck? — or gasped as Bessie swung out over the city, clinging to the tongue of the great bell and swearing, "Curfew shall not ring tonight?" — or shuddered at the hideous fare of Mad Carew, who robbed the Little Yellow God of its Green Eye? — or lost your heart to the young Lochinbar? — or wept at the pathetic fate of Little Jim? — or firmly resolved to "Play up! play up! and play the game!"?Generations of well-brought-up children recited these verses to their admiring elders in front parlours from Sydenham to Sydney, from Peckham to Pekin (Illinois). Full of beautiful and soul-stirring ideas, they brought tears to the eyes and noble resolutions to the hearts of their auditors. Today, the inspired composers of most of these Favourite Poems are mostly forgotten. Less than a century ago Felicia Hemans, Martin Farquhar Typper and Eliza Cook shared the throne of Most Noble Poets of Humanity with Burns, Wordsworth and Byron. This collection sets them on their pedestal again, the Hon. Mrs. Norton and Adelaide A. Procter beside Tennyson and Browning. Many of the poems, though, are magnificent by any standards, and are undeservedly neglected or dismissed today.Literary critics may sniff disdainfully at this neglected branch of our poetic heritage, and some misguided readers, we fear, may find certain verses richly comic. But here they are to be enjoyed again, embellished with decorative engravings of the period as well as illuminating notes and biographies. Here are those affecting ballads of mothers perishing in snowstorms, of pious children early cut off in tragic circumstances, of patriotic soldiers falling in foreign lands, together with the grandest and most stirring thoughts: the best-loved Poetic Gems of the age that ended with the decease of Queen Victoria.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Parlour Poetry. To get started finding Parlour Poetry, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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