english poetry

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english poetry

Cakes and custard

children's rhymes
1975
A collection of rhymes for young children, some old favorites, some obscure, some modern.

Ghost poems

1979
Presents seventeen poems about ghosts.

The new Oxford book of Victorian verse

2008
Anthology of poems, most of them written and published during the reign of England's Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901, including works by Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Lewis Carroll, and Emily Bronte.

The highwayman

2009
An illustrated version of the well-known poem about the highwayman and his true love, the innkeeper's daughter.

Shelley's poetry and prose

authoritative texts, criticism
2002
Presents more than fifty works of poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley, three of his prose works, and twenty-two essays by such critics as Harold Bloom, Earl R. Wasserman, and Susan J. Wolfson.

Selected poems

2007
A collection of poems spanning the sixty-year career of nineteenth-century English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, covering different types of poetic form.

100 great poems of the twentieth century

2005
Presents a collection of one hundred poems of the twentieth century by such noted authors as T.S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, Ogden Nash, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and others.

Poetry speaks expanded

hear poets from Tennyson to Plath read their own work
2007
Collects works by forty-seven important poets, arranged chronologically by birth order from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Sylvia Plath, and includes biographies, essays by accomplished contemporary poets, and CD recordings of each featured poet reading his or her own works.

An invitation to poetry

a new Favorite Poem Project anthology
2004
Contains a collection of two hundred poems and accompanying DVD that features twenty-seven Favorite Poem Project documentaries as seen on PBS read by a cross-section of the American populace, each speaking about his or her connection to the poem.

Poetry speaks

hear great poets read their work from Tennyson to Plath
2001
Collects works by more than forty important poets, arranged chronologically by birth order from Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to Sylvia Plath, and includes biographies, essays by accomplished contemporary poets, and CD recordings of each featured poet reading his or her own works.

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