Untermeyer, Louis

Includes work by William Butler Yeats, D H Lawrence, W H Auden, Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin, and others.

A modern critical appraisal of 133 English and American poets, intermingled with brief autobiographical data, and excerpts from their writings. Eighteen contemporary poets are included.

An illustrated collection of over 350 English and American poems, about animals, people, famous events, the seasons, and Christmas, and including nonsense verse, inspirational lines, and wisdom in rhyme.

A selection of limericks, nonsense verse, tongue twisters, and humorous poetry by well-known writers.

A brief history of ballet is followed by synopses of twenty ballets: The Wood Nymphs; Ondine; Billy, the Kid; Graduation Ball; The Firebird; The Sleeping Princess; Petrouchka; Children's Games; Bluebeard; Swan Lake; Prince Igor; Coppelia; Giselle; Rodeo; The Golden Cockerel; The Rite of Spring; The Phantom of the Rose; The Nutcracker; Scheherazade; Fancy Free.

An illustrated collection of forty fables whose instructive wit reflects the character of the man who originally told them.