"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.
"A generous collection with an upbeat tone, this gives a taste of the best poets writing for children over the last several decades. There are surprises and old standbys, but the bent is toward popular favorites. Lobel's drawings imbue the whole with action and graphic images as inventive as the verse. . . ".--Booklist. ALA Notable Children's Book ...
The fourth edition of this standard work contains 1800 poems by 300 poets, with 600 poems and 100 poets newly included. The anthology offers more poetry by women (40 new poets), with special attention to early women poets. The book also includes a greater diversity of American poetry, with double the number of poems by African American, Hispanic, ...
Published in honor of the 75th anniversary of the first in-print appearance of A.A. Milne's character, Winnie-the-Pooh, this book features all of Milne's Pooh stories and poetry. Watercolor versions of the book's original illustrations accompany the text.
This thorough revision renders the remarkable range of styles, subjects and voices in English language poetry, from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late 19th century to Carol Ann Duffy and Sherman Alexie in the 21st. With 195 poets and 1596 poems, the volumes richly represent the major figures: Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Olson, ...
This anthology illuminates the history, practice, and wonder of our most elusive art, poetry. Intended for all those who love poetry, including teachers, readers, writers, and students, the book should be valued by those who feel that an understanding of form-sonnet, ballad, villanelle, and sestina would enhance their appreciation of poetry, but ...
Robert Louis Stevenson wrote this classic collection of poetry for children in 1885. It continues to be beloved as a charming evocation of childhood, and is considered to be Stevenson's best poetry, as well as one of his most enduring books.
Kennedy/Gioia's An Introduction to Poetry, 13th edition continues to inspire students with a rich collection of poems and engaging insights on reading, analyzing, and writing about poetry. The authors of this bestselling book are the recipients of many prestigious poetry awards. Features new to this edition include: *Exclusive conversation ...
From the thousands chosen by Garrison Keillor to read on his NPR program A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, this selection of 350 poems is sorted by subject: "Day's Work," "Sons and Daughters," "Resurrection," and more. The authors range from William Shakespeare to Robert Haas.
The first authoritative collection of Eliot's poetry, edited by Eliot himself in 1962 and containing all the poetry through that time that he wished to preserve. As a poet, Eliot was constantly in search of new forms, and he found his voice in a combination of precise imagery, ironic wit, and the juxtaposition of disparate elements presented ...
Titled in Garrison Keillor's typical low-key, plainspoken way, GOOD POEMS FOR HARD TIMES (a spinoff from his 2002 anthology, GOOD POEMS) contains a wide selection of poems in English. Many are by living writers, but the time period represented ranged from the 16th century to the 21st.
The classic poem about the spider who attempts to lure a fly into her web is illustrated in the style of 1920s and '30s horror movies. A 2003 Caldecott Honor book.
Eliot's major work, "The Wasteland", was controversial when it appeared in 1922. Considered both obscure and radical, it utilizes a combination of modern slang and ancient myth, arcane literary allusion and jazzy modernity. Eliot also included helpful but pedantic footnotes. However, the poem is lyrical and hypnotic, and its collage-like mode is, ...
This anthology of poetry--which includes work by W. H. Auden, Mary Oliver, Rita Dove, Louise Glück, and more--concentrates on poems about humanity and its strengths.
Using works by poets ranging from Antonio Machado and Pablo Neruda to Galway Kinnell and Franz Kafka, Roger Housden presents each poem as a catalyst, then creates a text upon which the reader is invited to reflect more deeply.
Jim Morrison was the prolific song-writer and singer with "The Doors" during the 1960s. He died in Paris in 1971 aged 27, another victim of an excessive rock and roll lifestyle. This is a selection of his writings, collated from 1600 pages of notes and diary entries.
Many of the poems in this collection, published in 1857, were banned for indecency by the French government. A major 19th-century text and an inspiration to the Symbolist movement, THE FLOWERS OF EVIL evokes the decay and debauchery of the Parisian underworld, expressing both the seduction and repulsion of death. Baudelaire implicates the reader ...
A new translation of the classic medieval French epic poem by Guillaume de Lorris. Patterned after Ovid's Ars Amatoria, it is an elaborate allegory describing the birth and growth of courtly love. It was one of the most influential works written during the Middle Ages, and gave birth to an entirely new conception of love and romance throughout ...
Young were the years when Ymir made his settlement, there was no sand nor sea nor cool waves; earth was nowhere nor the sky above, chaos yawned, grass was there nowhere. The sun turns black, earth sinks into the sea, the bright stars vanish from the sky; steam rises up in the conflagration, a high flame plays against heaven itself. Seeress's ...
Culled from the journals, notebooks and typescripts left in the care of his wife Pamela, this title explores the writings of the songwriter and lead singer of the sixties band "The Doors". This is the second volume of Jim Morrison's poetry and writings.
The DREAM SONGS--385 sonnetlike poems about his alter ego, a middle-aged man named Henry--established Berryman as a major voice in American poetry. This volume won the Pulitzer Prize in 1964.
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" is Coleridge's brilliant and hypnotic ballad about the sailor who, "cruelly and in contempt of the laws of hospitality, killed a Seabird," and the dire consequences of this event. His other great works include "Kubla Khan," Christabel," and "Dejection: An Ode."
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