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Title: The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics
Author: Various
Release Date: April 5, 2005 [EBook #15553]
Language: English
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To My Mother.
[Illustration]
THE
GOLDEN TREASURY
OF
AMERICAN SONGS AND LYRICS
EDITED BY
FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES
NEW REVISED EDITION
[Illustration]
BOSTON
L.C. PAGE AND COMPANY
(INCORPORATED)
MDCCCXCIX
Colonial Press:
Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
PREFACE.
The numerous collections of American verse share, I think, one fault in common: they include too much. Whether this has been a bid for popularity, a concession to Philistia, I cannot say; but the fact remains that all anthologies of American poetry are, so far as I know, more or less uncritical. The aim of the present book is different. In no case has a poem been included because it i
The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics
by Various Authors