Untermeyer, Louis

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.

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

Brief biographical sketches of 25 poets, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Burns, Coleridge, Shelley, Pope, Longfellow, Tennyson, Whitman, Frost, Poe, Yeats, Byron, and Wordsworth.

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

An anthology of more than 150 poems for young people on all subjects, with comments by the editor.