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A Gathering of poets

1992
Presents a collection of 147 poems read at The Gathering of Poets at Kent State University in 1990.

A reader's guide to Walt Whitman

1997
An introduction to the reading and study of the writings of American poet Walt Whitman, discussing how critical attitudes toward Whitman's works changed in the decades between the 1940s and 1960s, and summarizing and commenting upon attempts to interpret his poems in the contexts of Vedanticism, existentialism, and psychoanalysis.

Edgar Allan Poe stories

twenty-seven thrilling tales
1961
Includes twenty-seven of Poe's short stories and eight of his poems.

Poems to read to the very young

1977
A collection of brief poems about a variety of childhood experiences.

Robert Frost

A collection of poems about the four seasons by one of best-known American poets. "In an attractive large-size volume ... 25 poems to introduce Robert Frost to young people. The selections are arranged by the seasons, and Sorensen's handsome watercolor illustrations capture the feel of the New England landscape without in any way trying to provide literal images for the poetry. There's an excellent biographical essay, and at the bottom of each page, Schmidt provides a brief note on some of the possible ways to read the lines. These nature poems show that poetry holds feelings and ideas that everyone can understand.".

I'm nobody! Who are you?

poems by Emily Dickinson
2002
In her room in Amherst, Emily Dickinson wrote some of the most remarkable poetry ever composed. Only a few of her verses were published in her lifetime, but now all her poems are read worldwide. Her beautiful visions and haunting words cast a brilliant eye on the world around us and the world within us all. From the landscapes of nature to the landscapes of the mind, Emily Dickinson captures life in all its details and desires.

Falling down the page

An anthology of list poems by contemporary poets.

Great American poems

The road not taken, The waste land, Paul Revere's Ride, and 99 others
2008
Presents a collection of fifty-six American poems from colonial times through the twenty-first century.

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