| Description |
xix, 379 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm. |
| Series |
Poetry for students, 1094-7019 ; v.31 |
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Poetry for students,
1094-7019 ; v.31.
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| Note |
Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, criticism, sources and further reading. |
| Contents |
An ancient gesture / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The black snake / Mary Oliver -- The fish / Elizabeth Bishop -- Fragment 2 / Sappho -- The hippopotamus / Ogden Nash -- Huswifery / Edward Taylor -- Lament for Ignacio Sanchez Mejias / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Lineage / Margaret Walker -- Losses / Randall Jarrell -- A noiseless patient spider / Walt Whitman -- Outside history / Eavan Boland -- Runagate runagate / Robert Hughes -- Some people like poetry / Wislawa Szymborska -- Storm ending / Jean Toomer -- A tree telling of Orpheus / Denise Levertov -- The wreck of the Hesperus / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow/ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| Subject |
Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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Poetry, Modern -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Constantakis, Sara.
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Gale Research Inc.
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| ISBN |
9781414421483 hardcover |
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1414421486 hardcover |
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