To the adolescent mind in the initial stage of acquiring a taste for literature nothing is so tiring as over-analysis and annotation. No explanation has been made of any word that may be found in an academic dictionary. The profuse use of notes has been avoided. The usual chronological arrangement has been abandoned selections have been assembled with reference to a central idea, both for the sake of clearness of apprehension and for the purpose of sustaining interest. The grouping of the stories and poems should be of assistance to the pupil. It was impossible to include everything, and those selections were made which, in the judgment of the editors, would hasten the establishment of a point of contact between the youthful student and that great world of literature to which we hope to introduce him. If criticism is offered because of the omission of favorite authors, we can only suggest that this is no compendium of Southern literature. For more detailed study, a special term of months might profitably be devoted to it in the high school and the college. With these principles in mind, it is the belief of the editors that this volume may furnish supplementary reading in the upper grammar grades, parallel reading throughout the high-school course, and suggestive reading for a college class in American literature. It is never too late to acquaint one's self with a masterpiece of literature, however simple the composition on the other hand, one has a right to read a classic just as early as it may be understood with a fair degree of accuracy and enjoyment. Intellectual aptitudes and previous training vary so greatly among different groups of students and in different sections that the editors do not care to undertake to decide the definite place in a system of schools for such a collection. The exact position in the curriculum it shall occupy is left to the judgment of school officials. The book is intended primarily for schools. Because the literature of the South is a part of the Nation's literature, it is believed that these stories and poems will be studied with profit and pleasure by students from all sections of our country. The definite task undertaken in this volume, therefore, is to provide students with a convenient introduction to the work of Southern writers. Without diminishing the effort devoted to the study of American literature, and with no intention of sectional glorification, our boys and girls should begin to acquaint themselves with some of the finer spirits who have endeavored to record in beautiful language the emotional experiences peculiar to the section in which they dwell. One rarely hears of the study of a Southern author in a Southern high school or grammar school. For various reasons the Southern student knows less of his own literature than he does of any other. THE principal purpose of this collection is to inspire the youth of the South to a more earnest and intelligent study of the literature of that section. PROFESSOR OF SECONDARY EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Revised TEIHeader and created catalog record for the electronic edition.įinished TEI-conformant encoding and final proofing. Spell-check and verification made against printed text using Author/Editor (SoftQuad) and Microsoft Word spell check programs. Indentation in lines has not been preserved. Encountered typographical errors have been preserved, and appear in red type.Īll footnotes appear as in the original text, except for the poetry section, in which they have been moved to the end of the poem and renumbered accordingly.Īny hyphens occurring in line breaks have been removed, and the trailing part of a word has been joined to the preceding line.Īll quotation marks, em dashes and ampersand have been transcribed as entity references.Īll double right and left quotation marks are encoded as " and " respectively.Īll single right and left quotation marks are encoded as ' and ' respectively. Original grammar, punctuation, and spelling have been preserved. The text has been encoded using the recommendations for Level 4 of the TEI in Libraries Guidelines. The text has been entered using double-keying and verified against the original. This electronic edition is a part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. M4 (Davis Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) (title page) Southern Prose and Poetry for SchoolsĬall number PS551. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, by Payne, Bruce Ryburn, 1874-1937.įunding from the University of North Carolina Library supported the electronic publication of this title.Īpex Data Services, Inc., Amanda Page, and Sarah Ficke
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