Author : George Burnett Devine
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243390779
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)
Book Synopsis Everyday Poems in Everyday English (Classic Reprint) by : George Burnett Devine
Download or read book Everyday Poems in Everyday English (Classic Reprint) written by George Burnett Devine and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Everyday Poems in Everyday English On that trip I found that a Dummy may be far more intelligent than an average person. During that entire ride of over a hundred miles, my new-found friend kept reciting poem after poem - poems by the dozen - poems by great authors, some with which I was familiar through reading, many others I had never read nor heard. And finally, this friend began to recite poems of his own composition, and I was amazed at the depth of his knowledge. That experience awakened my interest. And for the past two years I have spent nearly all my spare time in assisting Dumrhy in getting his poems reduced to writing, for as you may have guessed by now, he could neither see nor hear. This has been a slow, laborious process. For, during three months of our work, not one word was passed from me to him. He would come in and dictate a poem, I would give him a sign that it was finished and he would return home. Then one afternoon we started working on a touch system of communication and finally spelled out the alphabet. From then on, a new world was Opened to both of us. The author of this collection of poems, George Burnett Devine, was born in Miamisburg, Ohio, on October 22, 1892. At the age of six he started to school which he attended regularly until passing the fifth grade. At this time it was noticed - that both his eyesight and hearing were failing. Be cause oi this he was forced to quit school for two years. During this time improvement was noticed and he was al lowed to return to school, finishing the sixth grade. But hiseyesight and hearing were rapidly failing and he was again forced to forego any further attempts at getting an educa tion in the public schools. He secured employment which would not require keen eyesight at the Bookwalter Wheel Company. He remained there for a period of fifteen years when the company ceased operation. He then secured employment at the Miami Foun dry where he worked for twelve years, or until 1932. At that time his hearing was completely gone and eyesight was practically nil. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
