english poetry

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed) The precise, unerring, delicately emphatic characterizations for which The Canterbury Tales is so famous are no more extraordinary than Chaucer s utter mastery of English rhythms and his effortless versification. Ranging from animal fables to miniature epics of courtly love and savagely hilarious comedies of sexual comeuppance, these stories told by pilgrims on the way to the shrine of Thomas ? Becket in Canterbury reveal a teeming, vital fourteenth-century English society on the verge of its Renaissance.

Originally published in 1872, many of these poems are now considered childhood classics.

Humorous retellings of Cinderella, Snow White and the seven dwarfs, Jack and the beanstalk, Goldilocks and the three bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and The three little pigs.

A collection of brief poems about shoes, fences, eggs, whistling, baths, books, and other childhood delights.

A collection of over one-hundred poems for children with subject matter ranging from nonsense verse to animals to nature.

An illustrated collection of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson.

Fanciful creatures, including the Stork, the Duck, the Owl, the Frog, and the Fimble Fowl come to build their homes on the Quangle Wangle's commodious hat.

The Jumblies go to sea in a sieve and have many adventures.

A collection of eighteen illustrated poems about a variety of animals with some particularly human characteristics.

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.