Wildwood Fables

Title

en_US Wildwood Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US Arthur Guiterman

Creator

en_US Guiterman, Arthur See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T20:12:05Z

en_US 1995-11

en_US 1927

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:12:05Z

Date Issued

en_US 1927

Abstract

en_US There are here twenty-eight verse fables on 3-73, as the opening T of C shows, followed by Tales and Songs. Several of the fables formed part of a Phi Beta Kappa poem entitled The New Aesop, read at the triennial convention of Phi Beta Kappa in New York in 1925. The several of these fables that I have read are good for performing aloud. They carry a fable's lesson in enjoyable rhythm and rhyme. The Chant of Mikinak (5) tells of a soft-shelled turtle who finds himself everyone's victim and plaything. He toughens up by bathing in limestone and comes back. When he does not mind getting kicked around, people stop kicking him around. 'Where the sticks will fly and the stones will hurtle,/You mustn't be too sensitive,' says Mikinak the Turtle (7). In The Professional, the writer, an amateur fisherman, admires the Kingfisher as a professional who is glad for anything he can get and does not have time for talking or wishing. A Rabbit Parable (23) tells of a rabbit who had to yield the nice hole he found to a larger groundhog. The groundhog was killed by a badger. A fox challenged the badger, and they ended up killing the other. The meek rabbit inherited the earth! This sounds like the kind of poetry that would be fun after-banquet reciting.

Identifier

en_US 7874 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/83125

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US E.P. Dutton & Company

en_US New York, NY

Subject

en_US PS3513.U7 W5 1927 See all items with this value

en_US Arthur Guiterman See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole