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Castles: Old Stone Poems
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Puzzling Poems to Drive You Crazy
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With many amusing puzzle poems, this collection is guaranteed to intrigue and entertain. Poets include Jonathan Swift, James Reeves, Wendy Cope and Nick Toczek.
The Truth or Not?
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Do you long to discover your purpose in this world so that you can enjoy and understand life? Full of powerful poems and short, inspirational messages, The Truth or Not? encourages you to defy conventional thinking and journey down the path of spiritual recognition to find your purpose. Author Lonni...
My First Oxford Book of Poems
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From the silly old baboon to the sounds of the sea and the rhythm of the banjo dance, here is a wonderfully varied collection of first poems drawn together by bestselling anthologist Foster. Full color.
British Satire and the Politics of Style, 1789-1832
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Gary Dyer breaks new ground by surveying and interpreting hundreds of satirical poems and prose narratives published in Britain during the Romantic period. These works have been neglected by literary scholars, satisfied that satire disappeared in the late eighteenth century. Dyer argues that satire ...
American Elegy
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American Elegy
Virgil and the Augustan Reception
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This book examines the ideological reception of Virgil at specific moments in the past two millennia. It focuses on the emperor Augustus in the poetry of Virgil, detects in the poets and grammarians of antiquity pro- and anti-Augustan readings, studies Dryden's 1697 Royalist translation, and also na...
Poet's Choice
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Edward Hirsch began writing a column in the Washington Post Book World called Poet's Choice in 2002. This book brings together those enormously popular columns to present a minicourse in world poetry. More than 130 poets from ancient times to the present represent cultures from all around the globe.
Mother Goose's Storytime Nursery Rhymes
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Axel Scheffler, the bestselling illustrator of THE GRUFFALO and ROOM ON THE BROOM, brings his inimitable brand of humor and heart to the beloved poems in MOTHER GOOSE'S STORYTIME NURSERY RHYMES. In this innovative format, short stories about Mother Goose and her three rambunctious goslings frame eac...
Baby Einstein: Baby Da Vinci, Mi Cuerpo: Baby Einstein: Baby Da Vinci, My Body, Spanish-Language Edition
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With the help of two playful little monkeys, the youngest readers learn to identify each part of their body. Witty rhymes about their arms and legs teach them to match what they see in the two mirrors that are included on every page of the book. Written for Spanish-speaking children ages nine months...
Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry
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An heroic poem (truly such) is undoubtedly the greatest work which the soul of man is capable to perform. The design of it is to form the mind to heroic virtue by example; it is conveyed in verse that it may delight while it instructs. The action of it is always one, entire, and great. The least and...
Verses Against the Darkness: Pablo Neruda's Poetry and Politics
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Verses Against the Darkness offers a new assessment of Pablo Neruda's poetry by looking at the intersection of his aesthetic method and political radicalism from 1925 to 1954. It challenges the canonical view that Neruda was a gifted verse maker who, in 1936, let himself be carried away by the exces...
Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America
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Asian Diaspora Poetry in North America
The Painful Poignancy of Desire: An Introduction to Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
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The Painful Poignancy of Desire: An Introduction to Romantic and Postromantic Poetry
The Oxford Book of Story Poems
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How many of one's favourite poems are story poems? This is a wonderful collection of over sixty narratives in verse with thrilling tales, silly nonsense rhymes, tragic poems that will keep you in suspense, and funny, quirky poems that will delight over and over again. All the classic poems youwould ...
Young Poets of Central Jersey: 2006
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A collection of poetry written by students from Central New Jersey published in the Courier News. This book celebrates work by all grade level students - from Kindergarten through Grade 12.
Poetry: An Introduction
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Adapted from Michael Meyer's best-selling Bedford Introduction to Literature, this anthology responds to the needs of all kinds of poetry courses. Instructors across the country report that especially at schools where there is a decreased emphasis on literature and the humanities, students do not ne...
Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
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A reinterpretation of Old English poetry and its relation to Anglo-Saxon thought and society.
Poems Fit for an Emperor: A Collection of Greek and Roman Myths
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Learn all about the creation of the world, what happened during the Trojan War and what happened to those who fought in it, as well as some other little myths not many people can recall. If you like reading tall tales or even about history, this is the book for you. Find out how Hercules was saddled...
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition
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This deluxe 150th anniversary edition of Whitman's masterwork features the complete text of the 1855 poem in its original and complete form, with a specially commissioned introductory essay by bestselling critic Harold Bloom.
Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading
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Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace,...
First Day of School and Other Poems
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From tummy butterflies on the first day of school to the excitement of learning how to read, this playful poetry collection captures childhood in all its bumps and thrills. Full color.
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me
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Poet, writer, performer, teacher, and director Maya Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas, and then moved to San Francisco. In addition to her bestselling autobiographies, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, she has also written a cookbook, Hallelujah! The Welcome Table; five poetry col...
Nursery Rhyme Treasury
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This beautiful collection brings together over sixty of the best-loved nursery rhymes, including lively action rhymes and dreamy lullabies. Enchantingly illustrated by Dubravka Kolanovic, this treasury is one to cherish forever.