themes, motives

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "Skipper Ireson's Ride" to "Translations, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "On Poetry: A Rhapsody" to "Sketch for an Aesthetic Project, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "Listening to the Music of Arsenio Rodriguez..." to "On My First Son, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "Hero and Leander" to "The Listeners, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "The Drunken Boat" to "Heritage, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

Contains essays that examine frequently taught poems from around the world and throughout history, arranged alphabetically by title from "Briggflatts" to "Dreams of the Animals, " each with reference information, a summary, and discussion of form and devices, and themes and meanings.

We learn of his encounters with the vast population that surrounds Leonardo: great and lesser academics, collectors and curators, devious dealers and unctuous auctioneers, major scholars and authors and pseudohistorians and fantasists; but also how he has grappled with swelling legions of 'Leonardo loonies', walked on the eggshells of vested interests in academia and museums, and fended off fusillades of non-Leonardos, sometimes more than one a week.

"Uses LEGO models to explore Neoclassical, Art Deco, Brutalist, Modernist, and other architectural styles. Each chapter includes a discussion of the architectural movement, photographs of famous real-life buildings, and a gallery of LEGO models, with step-by-step building instructions"--Provided by publisher.

A whimsical introduction to the lives and creative approaches of leading artists imagines snowmen illustrated in the styles of such masters as Georgia O'Keefe, Claude Monet and Jackson Pollock.