Excerpt from Selections From American Poetry: With Special Attention to Longfellow, Whittier, Poe and LowellThe purpose of this text is to present material for the present college entrance requirement for reading Selec tions from American Poets, with special attention to Long fellow, Whittier, Poe, and Lowell. Its further purpose is to present poems so carefully chosen with regard to points of contact with adolescent life that they will give imme diate pleasure and stimulate a desire for further reading along the best lines of interest. Furthermore, the poems have been chosen with regard to high literary values and far - reaching ethical importance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.