Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900

VariousProject Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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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.Poet-Lore: A Quarterly Magazine of Letters. April, May, June, 1900 by VariousAuthor: Various,Language: English, Class: PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections, Release Date: Nov 23, 2010

Editor's review

This is the April–June 1900 issue of the quarterly Poet-Lore, digitized and released by Project Gutenberg. The magazine was a late-nineteenth-century American periodical devoted mainly to poetry and literary studies; its columns usually covered poems, literary criticism, bibliographical notes, and translated material, and it bears a distinct mark of its era. The value of this issue lies not in any single long piece but in its function as a window through which readers can see how the English-speaking world of the time discussed poetry, evaluated writers and works, and arranged literary tastes. For readers studying the history of Anglo-American literary criticism, periodical history, or the reception of poetry at the turn of the century, original periodicals of this kind are rare material; general readers can treat it as a collection of essays and sense the style and topics of the age. There is no need to read every page closely; one may skip by column and pay attention to the criteria of judgment and habits of wording in the critical articles. Because the periodical is a hundred years old, some topics and figures are unfamiliar today, so it is advisable to read with reference tools at hand and check as you go.

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Reading tips

  1. Look at the table of contents first and classify by column; pick poems or criticism that interest you and skip-read rather than going from beginning to end.
  2. When you come across an unfamiliar writer or work, jot it down and look up the background afterward, forming a thread of knowledge.
  3. Choose one review and summarize it paragraph by paragraph to practice grasping the argumentation and wording of old-style reviews.
  4. Place the magazine back in the literary context around 1900 and note how its topics differ from or resemble those of periodicals of the same period.

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Project Gutenberg United States · Founded in 1971

Project 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.

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FAQ

What does this magazine mainly publish? Poet-Lore is a literary quarterly whose contents usually include poems, literary criticism, discussion of writers and works, and bibliographical notes. This issue is the April–June 1900 number; for specific contents, consult the table of contents in the electronic edition. Overall it leans toward poetry and literary criticism.
Is it meaningful for general readers to read old periodicals? Yes. Old periodicals can present the literary tastes and critical tone of an era; reading them is like browsing a cultural scene from a hundred years ago. Even if you are not familiar with all the writers in it, you can treat it as a window into late-nineteenth-century English-language literary topics and skip-read according to interest.
What background knowledge is needed? Basic English reading ability and a general acquaintance with nineteenth-century Anglo-American literature will make it smoother. When you encounter unfamiliar writers, works, or allusions, just consult reference books; there is no need to read a literary history in advance.

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