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- Author: Hamlin Garland
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 0548121923
- ISBN-13: 9780548121924
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English
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Excerpt from Prairie Songs: Being Chants Rhymed and Unrhymed of the Level Lands of the Great West
Most modern men, I fancy, find it rather difficult to take verse (not poetry) seriously. It is so restrictive and so monotonous in comparison with the flexibility of prose, that it forever hampers and binds in the man's larger feeling Prose seems to be drawing off all that is most modern and freest and most characteristic of our American civilization. I do not expect, therefore, to have these verses taken to represent my larger work.
A quarter of a century ago the prairies of Northern Iowa were only just won from the elk and buffalo, whose bones and antlers lay in thousands beside every trail and watering place. These rich and splendid meadows had swarmed with herbivora for ages of undisturbed possession, and every crumbling crib of bones or bleaching antler was a powerful incentive to a boy's imagination. From them my mind was able to construct some idea of the grandeur of the flocks which once peopled these...
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- Author: Hamlin Garland
- Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
- ISBN-10: 0548121923
- ISBN-13: 9780548121924
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm, kieti viršeliai
- Language: English English
Excerpt from Prairie Songs: Being Chants Rhymed and Unrhymed of the Level Lands of the Great West
Most modern men, I fancy, find it rather difficult to take verse (not poetry) seriously. It is so restrictive and so monotonous in comparison with the flexibility of prose, that it forever hampers and binds in the man's larger feeling Prose seems to be drawing off all that is most modern and freest and most characteristic of our American civilization. I do not expect, therefore, to have these verses taken to represent my larger work.
A quarter of a century ago the prairies of Northern Iowa were only just won from the elk and buffalo, whose bones and antlers lay in thousands beside every trail and watering place. These rich and splendid meadows had swarmed with herbivora for ages of undisturbed possession, and every crumbling crib of bones or bleaching antler was a powerful incentive to a boy's imagination. From them my mind was able to construct some idea of the grandeur of the flocks which once peopled these...
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