In the Land of Dakota: A Little Book of North Dakota Verse
Winsted, Huldah LucileProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019
Rating 2.0- Word count
- 23K words
- Chapters
- 3
Tags
English Originals Modern Poetry American PrairiesNature ObservationPioneer MemoryDaily ReflectionsRegional PoetryLyric VerseRegional CulturePastoral RomanceAmerican MidwestMusical RhythmSummary
Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.In the Land of Dakota: A Little Book of North Dakota Verse by Huldah Lucile WinstedAuthor: Winsted, Huldah Lucile,Language: English, Class: PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature, Release Date: Jan 16, 2011Editor's review
This is a small poetry collection about the American state of North Dakota, in which the author, Hulda Lucille Winstead, depicts the natural scenery and everyday life of the Dakota region in short poems. The book is brief, its language plain, and its local color pronounced, making it a light read for those seeking an introduction to the regional literature of the American Midwest. As a public-domain ebook, it preserves the original form of an early local publication and offers some reference value both for the study of regional poetry and for beginning readers of English poetry. It should be noted that collections of this kind do not excel in technical refinement but privilege atmosphere and local flavor; readers may wish to slow down, take in the prairie, the seasons, and the details of daily life presented in the poems, and treat the book as practice material for reading short English poems.Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers interested in the regional literature and local flavor of the American Midwest
- English learners who want to practice reading with short English poems
- Readers collecting material on North Dakota or on regional poetry
Not a good fit for
- Readers seeking classic masterpieces of poetry and in-depth analysis of poetic craft
- Beginners who need a Chinese translation or detailed annotations
Reading tips
- Read through once in the order of the poem titles, then pick out several poems on nature and the seasons for a second reading
- Read the short poems aloud to feel their rhythm; when encountering unfamiliar words, first guess from context, then verify
- Read alongside some basic geographical knowledge of North Dakota to understand the local imagery in the poems
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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FAQ
How many poems are collected in this volume?
The available information only states that this is a small poetry collection about the Dakota region and does not give the exact number of poems. Readers are advised to consult the ebook's table of contents directly for accurate information.What level of English is needed to read this book?
The language of poetry is relatively condensed, but this book is short and its diction fairly plain, so readers with an intermediate level of English reading ability should be able to attempt it. A dictionary can be used alongside, and there is no need to translate word for word.Is it suitable as an introduction to poetry?
It can serve as light reading material for short English poems and help readers become familiar with line breaks and imagery in poetry. For systematic study of poetic craft, classic anthologies and works of appreciation are also needed.This site is an index: you start “Search all sources” in your browser, and the entries it lists all point to third-party sites; please judge their availability yourself.
About the author
Winsted, Huldah Lucile AuthorHuldah Lucile Winsted is an author about whom little public information is currently available, and whose name is associated with the Dakota region of the northern Great Plains. One work by her is held in the collection, the poetry collection In the Land of Dakota: A Little Book of North Dakota Verse. As the title suggests, the work takes the land of Dakota as its subject, using poetry to portray the natural scenery and regional life of North Dakota; it is modest in length and resembles a small verse anthology. Details of Winsted's life, including nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background, cannot be confirmed, so knowledge of the author and her work rests mainly on this single collection. On the available evidence, her writing tends toward regional lyric poetry centered on the landscapes of home, in a plain style. Such works often help preserve local memory and attachment to place and offer some reference value for understanding the early literary landscape of North Dakota.