Best Remembered PoemsMartin Gardner Courier Corporation, 2012 M06 19 - 240 pages The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley’s homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." |
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... England may not be well known here in the U.S., and vice versa. Poems loved by the elderly may be unfamiliar to the middle-aged, and the young these days are generally too hooked on inane rock lyrics to read any poetry. Even if a time ...
... England may not be well known here in the U.S., and vice versa. Poems loved by the elderly may be unfamiliar to the middle-aged, and the young these days are generally too hooked on inane rock lyrics to read any poetry. Even if a time ...
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... England's pioneers in the “higher criticism” of Scripture. For ten years he was a professor of poetry at Oxford, and throughout his life held a variety of government posts related to education. “My poems,” he wrote, represent, on the ...
... England's pioneers in the “higher criticism” of Scripture. For ten years he was a professor of poetry at Oxford, and throughout his life held a variety of government posts related to education. “My poems,” he wrote, represent, on the ...
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... England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which ...
... England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night air! Only, from the long line of spray Where the ebb meets the moon-blanch'd sand, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles which ...
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... England as a tutor. He was an ardent mountaineer and an authority on French literature, highly respected for his translation of Aucassin et Nicolette, a thirteenth-century French romance. Although he published many books of verse, only ...
... England as a tutor. He was an ardent mountaineer and an authority on French literature, highly respected for his translation of Aucassin et Nicolette, a thirteenth-century French romance. Although he published many books of verse, only ...
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... earth Shall bear the gree17 an' a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, It's comin yet for a' that, That man to man the world o'er Shall brithers be for a' that. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824) ONE OF England's greatest Romantic.
... earth Shall bear the gree17 an' a' that! For a' that, an' a' that, It's comin yet for a' that, That man to man the world o'er Shall brithers be for a' that. GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON (1788–1824) ONE OF England's greatest Romantic.
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