| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
viii, 88 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Epigraph: Universal song -- Colonial era -- Struggle for independence -- Young America -- From slavery to freedom -- Expansion of the nation -- Wars -- Changing America -- Afterword -- Biographical Notes on Poets -- Index of Titles and First Lines. |
| Summary |
One of the most respected chroniclers of twentieth-century history, award-winning writer Milton Meltzer has devoted much of his life to writing books about events in the voices of those who "speak of personal experience, so that we come to feel what it was like to be alive in their time and their place." Now Mr. Meltzer has turned his attention to the most personal of genres -- poetry -- and selected fifty-nine poems by American writers that celebrate, assail, and define events within seven major historical periods of the United States. Old masters such as Walt Whitman, Henry David Thoreau, and William Cullen Bryant and modern-day greats such as Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, and Edna St. Vincent Millay as well as today's young poets offer their personal perspectives of events that have shaped our lives. This rich, important collection features brief notations that precede each poem, placing each work in the context of the period. Biographies of each poet illuminate each life. Here is a major poetry anthology that gives young readers "the poets' sense of the past, as well as of the life around them ... to extend and deepen the range of our own experience." |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.5 3.0 80428. |
| Subject |
Historical poetry, American.
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American poetry.
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United States -- History -- Poetry.
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| Added Author |
Meltzer, Milton, 1915-2009.
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Nadel, Marc, illustrator.
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| ISBN |
1590780213 |
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