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I'm looking for good poetry to read this year (5/6th grade). We've already done Robert Louis Stevenson, Emily Dickenson, and Alfred Lord Tennyson from the Poetry for Young People series.
I'd like to know your favorite poets and recommendations for biographies and poems. I'd really like to include one Catholic poet or inspiring religious poetry.
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I think because I still remember memorizing this poem in 3rd grade (which is MANY years ago  ), I love TSEliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats -- and I don't even care for Cats! (BTW, this is the book of poems that the musical CATS! is based on).
I can still quote parts of Macavity, the Mystery Cat!
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I love Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Plus, there are lots of historical tie-ins to be found in his subject matter.
For Catholic poets, what about Chesterton, with his poem, "Lepanto" (which chronicles the battle of Lepanto which was the genesis for the Feast of the Holy Rosary in Oct) and "The Ballad of the White Horse". My kids really liked "Lepanto" and my 6 year old memorized part of it. I also noticed that CHC has a study guide for "Lepanto" and "White Horse", too, I think. Another poet to consider might be Gerard Manley Hopkins, or John Henry Newman's (as in Cardinal Newman's) poem, "Lead, Kindly Light".
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Kelly wrote:
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And Heart and Mind magazine had a Lepanto Unit Study in one of its issues last year. It's archived at this link.
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Kelly wrote:
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I love Cardinal Newman's poems and prayers. We also like Robert Frost. I bought a volume for young readers.
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Kelly wrote:
| For Catholic poets, what about Chesterton, with his poem, "Lepanto" (which chronicles the battle of Lepanto which was the genesis for the Feast of the Holy Rosary in Oct) and "The Ballad of the White Horse". Kelly in FL |
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This sounds really good! Did Chesterton write alot of poetry? Is there a volume of poems that he wrote ? (I like to have things all bound up together  )
What about a children's biography? Didn't Nancy L. say she was writing one?
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My favorite poet is Belloc. I still laugh every time I read, "As a friend to the children, commend me the Yak!"
And then there are his brilliant Cautionary Tales : "A trick that everyone abhors, in little girls, is slamming doors..."
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BTW, I just picked up Andrew Pudewa's "Suzuki Poetry" program. It's really called Developing Linguistic Patters through Poetry Memorization, but it's really just the Suzuki method, listening and practicing, adapted for poetry. The only drawback is that his voice sounds a bit funny on the CD (the kids giggled a bit), but the premise and the poems are really quite fine.
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I just ordered the "DLP through Poetry". I was praying for something to balance out the butchering of the English language that we constantly hear here in Ville Platte... and in the home... This may well be the answer!
I have to bite my tongue or I'd be correcting my husband at every sentence. (Although I probably correct every other sentence .) Since I started teaching English it's become almost unbearable! (Not that I don't make the same mistakes that I've grown up with, but at least I'm trying to improve.)
And up goes the credit card balance  ...
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I love Rudyard Kipling (not all of his poetry is for kids but the Poetry for Young People edition of his poems is wonderful! Lots of good copy work in there.
Lewis Carroll is a blast for kids. "Jabberwocky" is a favorite.
For me, I enjoy Jane Kenyon and Mary Oliver, if you've heard of them.
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Last year we used the Ambleside guide to select the poems we read. We enjoyed De La Mare, Whitcombe Riley, Longfellow. We also read some of Robert Frost.
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In addition to many of the great poets mentioned above, we love Ogden Nash, James Whitcomb Riley, William Butler Yeats, John O'Brien, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Edward Lear, James T. Fields, and Eugene Field . . . the list goes on forever, it seems!
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I love Eugene Field's poem, "The Days Gone By", and James Whitcomb Riley, too.
And as for Belloc, there's always his toad ode, "Be kind and gentle to the frog and do not call him names..." We giggle thru that one, a lot.
Re: Chesterton, I don't know of any volume, but there must be something. That Lepanto Unit study is a great suggestion, Alice. We discovered that AFTER we had finished the poem, grrrr, but it definitely looked good.
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Robin wrote:
Did Chesterton write alot of poetry? Is there a volume of poems that he wrote ? (I like to have things all bound up together )
What about a children's biography? Didn't Nancy L. say she was writing one?
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Robin,
Do you mean Nancy Brown? She has written a children's biography on Chesterton and is looking for a publisher.
She and I were mulling the idea of doing a set of children biographies on Catholic authors. Again...need a publisher.
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Oh, forgot to mention...
I LOVE Edgar A. Guest.
Like Eugene Field too. : )
And I adore Fr. O'Brien's Catholic poetry.
Need to locate the link...
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Kelly wrote:
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Many thanks, but it was Mary's suggestion! I do appreciate getting credit though!
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Cay Gibson wrote:
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I am cracking up here, Cay, because my only introduction to Edgar Guest was from The Grim Grotto, Book 11, Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket. He mercilessly pokes fun at Guest's poetry, and I'd often thought about looking Guest up to see what his work is really like. Needless to say, I'd trust your opinion over Snicket's anyday! Here is a link to an amusing open letter by a father defending Guest against Snicket's jibes. By the way, until I read the open letter, I didn't know Guest had written "It Couldn't Be Done." I've always liked that poem a lot--it appeals to my optimistic nature, I Gues[t].
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Your St. Patrick's Day blog post was my first introduction to this wonderful poet. The Trimmin's on the Rosary, linked at your blog, was so moving that I jumped through hoops to purchase his out of print collection, "Around the Boree Log." This immediately became a favorite around here, so I ordered O'Brien's other OOP work, "The Parish of St. Mel's." The poems spoke to me in particular because of his keen and funny observations of Irish-Australian culture at the turn of the century (surprisingly similar to Irish-American culture as I remember it growing up!). In my poetry post above, I link to one of John O'Brien's (Monsignor Patrick Hartigan) most amusing poems, "Six Brown Boxer Hats." If you haven't read it yet, you are in for a treat!
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Cay Gibson wrote:
Robin,
Do you mean Nancy Brown? She has written a children's biography on Chesterton and is looking for a publisher.
She and I were mulling the idea of doing a set of children biographies on Catholic authors. Again...need a publisher. |
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Yes! Praying for a publisher!
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alicegunther wrote:
| ...my only introduction to Edgar Guest was from The Grim Grotto, Book 11, Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket. He mercilessly pokes fun at Guest's poetry, and I'd often thought about looking Guest up to see what his work is really like. Needless to say, I'd trust your opinion over Snicket's anyday! Here is a link to an amusing open letter by a father defending Guest against Snicket's jibes. |
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Oh, dear!
We've seen the movie but haven't read the books.
If I had only known he was writing such blasphemy about my dear Guest. 
Thanks for the link to this letter, Alice. The part where Snicket writes that Guest is: ""...a writer of limited skill, who wrote awkward, tedious poetry on hopelessly sentimental topics." breaks my heart.
I am hopelessly sentimental. A sentimental sap. That's me. I love a good poem, a good song, a good story. And, yes, Guest writes with that old-fashion flair...sentimentally hopeless. But I never find it awkward or tedious. Do you?
I never claimed to be a poetry professor or expert. And, if a poetry expert finds Guest to be "...a writer of limited skill..." and his poetry "awkward, tedious..." then I guess I'm a failure and better never take a poetry course. I love his poetry. He wrote about things that I hold so dear...home and babies and mother's love and life!
I was first introduced to his poetry when I was a girl. My mother read poetry to us from One Hundred and One Famous Poems by Roy Cook. The first Guest poem I heard was Home. I have it memorized to this day. Bittersweet.
Another poet I seem to have a fondness for is Riley. Here's one I've memorized since childhood and thought it was one of Edgar Guest's. It has the same sentimental sappiness.
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Cay Gibson wrote:
| Thanks for the link to this letter, Alice. The part where Snicket writes that Guest is: ""...a writer of limited skill, who wrote awkward, tedious poetry on hopelessly sentimental topics." breaks my heart. |
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Don't take it to heart! The entire premise of the series of Unfortunate Events is that one unfortunate event keeps following another--needless to say, an optimistic writer naturally would be raked over the coals. In context, you would see that it is really all silliness typical of the Lemony Snicket series and *no* serious criticism of Edgar Guest. I would hate to see what Lemony Snicket would say about our other favorite, James Whitcomb Riley. His poem, The Days Gone By, has been read and re-read many times in our house. Did you know that, in his day, Riley was so well known for his optimism that the phrase "living the life of Riley" actually comes from him?! Somehow, I don't think Lemony Snicket would approve!
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