Eastern Illinois University The Keep Eastern Illinois University Bulletin University Publications 7-1-1927 Bulletin 97 - The seU of Modern Poetry with Children, Second Edition Florence E. Gardiner Eastern Illinois University Follow this and additional works at: http://thekeep.eiu.edu/eiu_bulletin Recommended Citation Gardiner, Florence E., "Bulletin 97 - The sU e of Modern Poetry with Children, Second Edition" (1927). Eastern Illinois University Bulletin. 193. http://thekeep.eiu.edu/eiu_bulletin/193 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the University Publications at The Keep. It has been accepted for inclusion in Eastern Illinois University Bulletin by an authorized administrator of The Keep. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. The Teachers College Bulletin Number 97 July 1, 1927 Eastern Illinois State Teachers College AT CHARLESTON THE USE OF MODERN POETRY WITH CHILDREN SECOND EDITION BY FLORENCE E. GARDINER Training Teacher, Third Grade The Teachers College Bulletin PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY THE EASTERN ILLINOIS STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE Entered March S, 1902, as second class matter, at the postoffice at Charleston, Ill. Act of Congress, July 16, 1894. NO. 97 CHARLESTON, ILLINOIS JULY 1, 1927 THE USE OF MODERN POETRY WITH CHILDREN SECOND EDITION FLORENCE E. GARDINER Training Teacher, Third Grade Eastern Illinois State Teachers College at Charleston (Printed by authority of the State of Illinois) 22048-1500-7·29 THE USE OF MODERN POETRY WITH CHILDREN Robert Browning, in "Fra Lippo Lippi," says: "For, don't you mark? we're made so that we love First, when we see them painted, things we have passed Perhaps a hundred times nor cared to see;" And a bit farther on : "Art was given for that; God uses us to help each other so, Lending our minds out." This summarizes so aptly one purpose of the use of mod ern poetry with children.