How Salvator Won And Other Recitations

How Salvator Won and Other Recitations

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

This collection of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, titled "How Salvator Won and Other Recitations," presents a selection of her work specifically chosen for their dramatic potential and suitability for recitation. The volume includes both early works and poems written expressly for this collection. Wilcox aimed to provide a resource for performers and readers seeking verses that would engage audiences through their elocutionary qualities. Many of the poems explore themes of positivity and upliftment, characteristic of Wilcox's style.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

United States

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines "Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone." Her aut...

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