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Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America's foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems-an entire volume in itself-along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.
25) Selected poems
Author
Language
English
Description
The poetry of Walt Whitman is the cornerstone of modern American verse. He was America's first truly great poet and his influence is still evident today. The first edition of Whitman's Leaves of Grass, published in 1855, was a revolutionary manifesto declaring America's independence from European cultural domination. His rhapsodic free verse broke radically with poetic, tradition: it was poetry about America, its democracy, its people, and its hopes....
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A generous selection of poems by a major Victorian writer, a virtuoso of traditional forms who came to be recognized as a uniquely inventive and original voice in modern poetry. This selection of poems by Thomas Hardy (1840--1928), edited by David Bromwich, covers the range of Hardy's extraordinary work: songs, ballads, and sonnets, dramatic monologues and elegies, along with poems that mark epochal events, such as the end of the Great War. This...
32) Selected poems
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Includes over 200 poems from each of Lowell's books of verse--"Lord Weary's Castle;" "The Mills of the Kavanaughs;" "Life Studies;" "For the Union Dead;" "Near the Ocean;" "History;" "For Lizzie and Harriet;" and "The Dolphin."
36) Selected poems
Author
Series
American poets project volume 23
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
A selection of poems by twentieth-century American poet Carl Sandburg, drawn from collections published between 1916 and 1950.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Selected from the best-selling picture book by Jeff Foxworthy, these humorous poems are ready for beginning readers to enjoy. From meeting Auntie Brooke and Uncle Keith to searching for tadpoles and snakes, young readers will love discovering Jeff's vibrant neighborhood for themselves.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
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A new selection for the NEA’s Big Read program
A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.
This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,”...
A compact selection of Poe’s greatest stories and poems, chosen by the National Endowment for the Arts for their Big Read program.
This selection of eleven stories and seven poems contains such famously chilling masterpieces of the storyteller’s art as “The Tell-tale Heart,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” “The Cask of Amontillado,”...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
At last in English is a wide selection from the great Persian poet Hafez, so beloved in Iran that almost every family there keeps his Divan close at hand. When Robert Bly and Coleman Barks visited Iran, they heard schoolchildren singing Hafez poems at his graveside. For some fifteen years, the great Islamic scholar Leonard Lewisohn has worked with Robert Bly to produce this translation, which for the first time carries into English Hafez's nimbleness,...
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