A brief overview of British poetry from the early nineteenth century through the late twentieth century that profiles the lives and works of eleven authors, including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, W. B. Yeats, and Dylan Thomas.
Examines early British poetry from the seventh to the nineteenth century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne; along with examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication.
"This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about the natural world written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poems. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create their effects" --.
"This book invites the reader to jump into a selection of poems about emotions written by people from different places and times. It gives the reader the keys needed to unlock poetry. It equips the reader to explore the meanings that a poem has, and it explains the techniques poets use to create an effect."--Back cover.
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.
Presents a rhyming history of dinosaurs for children and includes a number of species such as the Brachiosaurus, Lesothosaurus, Barosaurus, and others.
