Reviews for Fragment poetry

The average rating for Fragment poetry based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-14 00:00:00 Larry Turner You will learn more about English and American poetry from reading this than from any ten other books I can think of. Winters' choices differ considerably from those in the standard anthologies, and in nearly every case for the better. In fact a great many of his choices, particularly from the 16th and 17th centuries, have entered the standard anthologies through his efforts, though he is rarely acknowledged.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-11-25 00:00:00 Paul Locke 3 stars [History] (W: 2.83, U: 3, T: 3, L: 4) Exact rating: 3.21 #45 of 92 in genre A textbook of American History for elementary age, covering from 1600 - 1840. The rating above is for the general reader; if applied more narrowly to elementary students, I would add +0.5 to Use and +0.25 to Truth (because full-orbed description is not critical for those less-nuanced years), for a 3.5 star designation and an exact 3.40 rating. The layout is quite excellent, with many colorized woodcuts, paintings, maps, sketches, ornamentation, and pronunciation of unusual names. Several processes, from early propaganda to gunsmithing to getting a wagon across the Oregon trail, are described in notable detail. I was amazed at how coherent and fact-based the whole thing was, compared to typical, vapid or politically-motivated productions of modern miseducation. Then I noticed it was first published in 1968, by a former Librarian of Congress.