Untermeyer, Louis

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

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 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 anthology of more than 150 poems for young people on all subjects, with comments by the editor. Includes work by Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, John Keats, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and others. Topical chapters include The unconquerable soul; Folk sayings, signs, and charms, The zoo, Roads for wandering, etc.

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.