Committed To Memory: 100 Best Poems To Memorize (without dust jacket)

The Story

'Committed to Memory' is a collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particularly intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them. The poems, which embrace a wide variety of genres, structures and patterns, include old favorites and forgotteen gems. Careful choices were made for the pleasure and reward of younger readers. From Ecclesiastes through the mid-twentieth century, 'Committed to Memory' presents poems the reader will delight in memorizing and sharing with friends and family.