Rev. of Poems You Ought to Know by Elia W. Peattie
Rev. of Poems You Ought to Know by Elia W. Peattie
The Critic 42
(Feb. 1903): 187
Page 187
Peattie -- Poems You Ought to Know. Selected by Elia W. Peattie. Jamieson-Higgins Co. $1.50.
For several months past the Chicago Tribune has published at the head of its first column a poem under the title, "Poems You Ought to Know." With each poem a few lines of biography were given. These poems, which were selected by Mrs. Elia W. Peattie, the literary editor of the Tribune, have been collected and published in an attractive volume. Mrs. Peattie has evidently not made the selection according to any hard-and-fast rule, but simply to give the newspaper-reading public something good in the way of poetry every day. Even if it were a poem it was familiar with, or one that it did not know so well, it made no difference; as long as the poem was good and worth while it had the place of honor on the Tribune's first page. It is a popular anthology, and one much more likely to be read than those of more pretensions, which only find their way to library shelves. The selections are made with a catholic taste, and will appeal to a large circle of readers.
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