english poetry

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english poetry

The art of Shakespeare's sonnets

  • Vendler, Helen Hennessy
1997
Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

Jim, who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a lion

a cautionary tale
  • Belloc, Hilaire
1987
Describes the terrible fate that befell a disobedient little boy at the zoo.

The after-world of the poets

the contribution of Victorian poets to the development of the idea of immortality
  • Weatherhead, Leslie Dixon
1970

A flower fairy alphabet

poems and pictures
  • Barker, Cicely Mary
2002
In twenty-four illustrated poems, fairies introduce most of the letters of the alphabet by describing the flowers among which they live.

The mermaid's purse

  • Hughes, Ted
2000
A collection of poems about the creatures of the sea, including the limpet, crab, and conger eel.

Strange and spooky poems

  • Katz, Bobbi
1991
Scary poems by a variety of notable poets.

Masterful images

English poetry from metaphysicals to romantics
  • Dyson, A. E
1976

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