Poetry Readers & Anthologies

Poetry Readers, Literature Anthologies, and reprints of classic children’s literature.

Poetry Readers

Poetry takes first rank as a means of intellectual culture. Goethe tells us that we ought to see a good picture, hear good music, and read some good poetry every day . . . that he may have time to do what is in him towards cultivating the seeing eye, the hearing ear, the generous heart.
— Charlotte Mason, The Formation of Character

Readers designed for Poetry Study based on Charlotte Mason’s model.

Our six year rotation of poets will introduce students to many of the most beautiful and well-known poems in the English tongue. Our aim, in the words of Charlotte Mason, is to set an “ample feast of which everyone takes according to his needs, and leaves what he has no stomach for.” She adds:

For practical ideas on making Poetry Study a regular part of your homeschool or classroom, visit The Reading Mother.

American Literature & Poetry

American Short Stories and American Poems feature the works of Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, O. Henry, Samuel Francis Smith, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Whitcomb Riley, Phyllis Wheatley, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Francis Scott Key, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Emily Dickinson, John Greenleaf Whittier, Walt Whitman, and many more! These works are designed to accompany your study of early American history.

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