narrative poetry

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narrative poetry

Omeros

1992
A poem in seven books of circular narrative design in which Achille, the protagonist, sets out on a fishing expedition and is carried back across the centuries to his ancestral home on the West African coast.

The highwayman

1983
Returning by moonlight to the inn where his true love, the landlord's daughter, awaits him, the highwayman is unaware that the king's soldiers also lie in wait for him, concealed in the girl's bedroom.

Kissing Annabel

2009
Sixteen-year-old Jack woos beautiful Annabel, and, through their relationship, he copes with his mother's death.

Paul Revere's ride

1990
The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

The cremation of Sam McGee

1986
Constantly suffering from the cold, Sam makes his companion on the Arctic trail promise to cremate him when he dies, which the companion does--to his great surprise.

The highwayman

2009
An illustrated version of the well-known poem about the highwayman and his true love, the innkeeper's daughter.

The Dancing Pancake

2010
Eleven-year-old Belinda "Bindi" Winkler and her family find their way through tough times with the love and support of the community that grows around their newly opened restaurant, "The Dancing Pancake.".

Hiawatha

1983
Verses from Longfellow's epic poem depict the boyhood of Hiawatha.

Paul Revere's ride

1993
The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

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