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2) Good poems
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English
Description
Every day people tune in to The Writer's Almanac on public radio and hear Garrison Keillor read them a poem. And here, for the first time, is an anthology of poems from the show, chosen by the narrator for their wit, their frankness, their passion, their "utter clarity in the face of everything else a person has to deal with at 7 a.m." The title Good Poems comes from common literary parlance. For writers, it's enough to refer to somebody having written...
Author
Series
Winnie-the-Pooh volume 1
Language
English
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Description
A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.
Author
Language
English
Description
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford U.P
Pub. Date
1967
Language
English
Description
Relatively unknown in his own lifetime, Gerard Manley Hopkins is the now accredited as the author of some of the finest and most complex poems in the English language. As a Victorian poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, Hopkins pioneered a revolutionary form of meter he termed "sprung rhythm" in his first major work, "The Wreck of the Deutschland." This poem, like most of Hopkins' work, reflects both his belief in the doctrine that human...
8) Winter poems
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Language
English
Description
A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.
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Series
Winnie-the-Pooh volume 3
Language
English
Description
A collection of poetry, including King John's Christmas, Sneezles, Us Two, Cradle Song, and other poems from the life and imagination of a small child.
Author
Language
English
Description
"This edition presents the texts of the 150 'poetical works' -- 148 poems of various degrees of seriousness and in various states of completion plus the collaborative play Otho the Great and the dramatic fragment King Stephen -- that can reasonably be assigned to Keats at the present time, with an apparatus recording all known substantive variants that have any claim to be considered authoritative and full textual notes that give dates of composition,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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On a spring day in April--sometime in the waning years of the 14th century--29 travelers set out for Canterbury on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Saint Thomas Beckett. Among them is a knight, a monk, a prioress, a plowman, a miller, a merchant, a clerk, and an oft-widowed wife from Bath. Travel is arduous and wearing; to maintain their spirits, this band of pilgrims entertains each other with a series of tall tales that span the spectrum of literary...
17) Poems
Author
Publisher
Crowell
Pub. Date
[1964]
Language
English
Description
Poet of nature and of revolution, of everyday life and lofty ideals, William Wordsworth overthrew the poetic conventions of his day and still speaks to ours. Elinor Parker has chosen for this volume poems which reveal Wordsworth's devotion to his principles and his skill in their execution.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
A chronological arrangement of the 500 greatest poems in English- -the poems most frequently included in authorlogies in the 9th edition of The Columbia Granger's index to poetry. With a succinct biographical sketch of each poet and brief comments on each poem.
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