Author: Stephanie Buckwalter
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032774
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Discusses early American poetry from the early 17th century into the late 19th century, including short biographies of poets like Phillis Wheatley and Walt Whitman; also has examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication"--Provided by publisher.
Early American Poetry: "Beauty in Words"
Author: Stephanie Buckwalter
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032774
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Discusses early American poetry from the early 17th century into the late 19th century, including short biographies of poets like Phillis Wheatley and Walt Whitman; also has examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032774
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Discusses early American poetry from the early 17th century into the late 19th century, including short biographies of poets like Phillis Wheatley and Walt Whitman; also has examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication"--Provided by publisher.
Early British Poetry: "Words That Burn"
Author: Paula Johanson
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032767
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Examines early British poetry from the 7th century into the 19th century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne; also examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032767
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Examines early British poetry from the 7th century into the 19th century, including short biographies of poets like William Shakespeare and John Donne; also examples of poems, poetic techniques, and explication"--Provided by publisher.
Contemporary American Poetry: "Not the End, But the Beginning"
Author: Sheila Griffin Llanas
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032798
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Discover some of the poetry of leading contemporary American poets, including: Roethke, Bishop, Stafford, Lowell, Brooks, Wilbur, Ginsberg, Merwin, Plath, Collins, and Gluck"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032798
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Discover some of the poetry of leading contemporary American poets, including: Roethke, Bishop, Stafford, Lowell, Brooks, Wilbur, Ginsberg, Merwin, Plath, Collins, and Gluck"--Provided by publisher.
The Vintage Book of African American Poetry
Author: Michael S. Harper
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030776513X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 030776513X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
In The Vintage Book of African American Poetry, editors Michael S. Harper and Anthony Walton present the definitive collection of black verse in the United States--200 years of vision, struggle, power, beauty, and triumph from 52 outstanding poets. From the neoclassical stylings of slave-born Phillis Wheatley to the wistful lyricism of Paul Lawrence Dunbar . . . the rigorous wisdom of Gwendolyn Brooks...the chiseled modernism of Robert Hayden...the extraordinary prosody of Sterling A. Brown...the breathtaking, expansive narratives of Rita Dove...the plaintive rhapsodies of an imprisoned Elderidge Knight . . . The postmodern artistry of Yusef Komunyaka. Here, too, is a landmark exploration of lesser-known artists whose efforts birthed the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts movements--and changed forever our national literature and the course of America itself. Meticulously researched, thoughtfully structured, The Vintage Book of African-American Poetry is a collection of inestimable value to students, educators, and all those interested in the ever-evolving tradition that is American poetry.
World Poetry: "Evidence of Life"
Author: Paula Johanson
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032804
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
"Discover some of the poetry of famed world poets, including: Sin-leqi-unninni, Vyasa, Homer, Du Fu, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Dante, Bashåo, Shevchenko, Tagore, Ahkmatova, Lorca, Neruda, Walcott, and Cohen"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032804
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
"Discover some of the poetry of famed world poets, including: Sin-leqi-unninni, Vyasa, Homer, Du Fu, Omar Khayyam, Rumi, Dante, Bashåo, Shevchenko, Tagore, Ahkmatova, Lorca, Neruda, Walcott, and Cohen"--Provided by publisher.
Modern British Poetry: "The World Is Never the Same"
Author: Michelle M. Houle
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032781
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Explores poetry in the British Isles from the early nineteenth century until the late twentieth century ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766032781
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Explores poetry in the British Isles from the early nineteenth century until the late twentieth century ..."--P. [4] of cover.
Death Poetry
Author: Stephanie Buckwalter
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1464404577
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Is death the end, or a new beginning? Should it be feared, or embraced? Or is it simply a ceasing to exist? What better way to examine this great unknown than through poetry. Author Stephanie Buckwalter explores eight poems and poets, with chapters on John Donne, Emily Bronte, Walt Whitman, and five others. Accompanied by biographical information on the poet and end-of-chapter questions for further study, Buckwalter unravels each poem, including detailed analysis of form, content, poetic technique, and theme, encouraging readers to develop the tools to understand and appreciate poetry.
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 1464404577
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Is death the end, or a new beginning? Should it be feared, or embraced? Or is it simply a ceasing to exist? What better way to examine this great unknown than through poetry. Author Stephanie Buckwalter explores eight poems and poets, with chapters on John Donne, Emily Bronte, Walt Whitman, and five others. Accompanied by biographical information on the poet and end-of-chapter questions for further study, Buckwalter unravels each poem, including detailed analysis of form, content, poetic technique, and theme, encouraging readers to develop the tools to understand and appreciate poetry.
Words with Wings
Author: Belinda Rochelle
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
Publisher: Collins
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Pairs twenty works of art by African-American artists with twenty poems by twenty African-American poets.
American Poetry and Prose
Author: Norman Foerster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1086
Book Description
Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century
Author: Eric L. Haralson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131776322X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131776322X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.