The Faber Book of Children's Verse

The Faber Book of Children's Verse PDF Author: Janet Adam Smith
Publisher: Quintessence Publishing (IL)
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Book Description
For children 8 to 14.

The Faber Book of Children's Verse

The Faber Book of Children's Verse PDF Author: Janet Adam Smith
Publisher: Quintessence Publishing (IL)
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 462

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Book Description
For children 8 to 14.

The Faber Book of Nursery Verse

The Faber Book of Nursery Verse PDF Author: Barbara Ireson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's poetry, American
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Book Description
A collection of rhymes, verses, jingles, riddles, and limericks from traditional sources, together with a selection of favorite poems by English and American authors, chiefly of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The New Faber Book of Children's Poems

The New Faber Book of Children's Poems PDF Author: Matthew Sweeney
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571219056
Category : Children's poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 280

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Book Description
This definitive anthology of poems for children is a helter-skelter of a ride, full of unexpected twists and turns, to which readers of any age will want to return, again and again. It contains poems by authors from many different backgrounds, cultures and geographies, classic and modern; but they share a quality that gives the book an imaginative integrity - a spirit of exploration, undertaken with humour and energy, where the boundaries are limitless.

The Faber Book of Beasts

The Faber Book of Beasts PDF Author: Paul Muldoon
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571195473
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 295

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Book Description
The Faber Book of Beasts is a collection of many of the best poems in English about the creatures who share our planet. The animal kingdom has prompted some of the liveliest and most enjoyable writing by poets, from Homer to our contemporaries. Among the creatures gathered here, tame or wild; common or exotic, are mammals, reptiles, birds, insects, and others perhaps more fanciful than real. A zoologist's delight.There is, too, a moral or philosophical purpose. As Paul Muldoon says in his introduction: 'We are most human in the presence of animals.' And it is just this sense of how our humanity is illuminated by the contemplation of bestial life that he has set out to celebrate. The results are wonderfully rich and thought-provoking.

The Faber Book of Modern Verse

The Faber Book of Modern Verse PDF Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571253814
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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First published in February 1936, just under a year from when the idea for it was first discussed, this is one of the most important and influential anthologies of the twentieth century. Since then three further editions by, in succession, Anne Ridler, Donald Hall and Peter Porter have been published. All took as their kernel the original selection by Michael Roberts. This "Faber Finds" reissue restores that pristine selection. More likely than not, the original idea was T. S. Eliot's, the choice of editor was undoubtedly his, and it was an inspired one. Michael Roberts was a poet himself, and a good one, but more important for this task was his acute awareness of the poetry scene, and his sense of the modern movement within it. Yes, his purpose was tendentious. He excludes some poets he admires such as Edmund Blunden and Walter de la Mare because (they) 'seem to me to have written good poems without having been compelled to make any notable development of poetic technique.' On the other hand, 'I have included only poems which seem to me to add to the resources of poetry, to be likely to influence the future development of poetry and language . . .' From the very start (and could there be a more arresting one?) with Gerard Manley Hopkins' "The Wreck of the Deutschland" Michael Roberts powerfully and consistently fulfils that aim. Philip Hobsbaum, in "The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry," says of "The Faber Book of Modern Verse," 'it also encapsulates, as no other literary document quite does, the innovative quality of the 1930s.'

Because a Fire Was in My Head

Because a Fire Was in My Head PDF Author: Michael Morpurgo
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571303129
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Book Description
A wonderful anthology of poems to set fire to the imagination. We only have to 'remember, remember the 5th of November' to see a dark night filled with fireworks and bonfires. In their many different ways - through their sounds, rhythms, stories, surprises and jokes - these poems will set the fireworks crackling in our own heads. Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Louis MacNeice, Stevie Smith and John Lennon, Jo Shapcott and Lewis Carroll. Once read, they won't be forgotten - some even beg to be learned by heart. This is anthology will form the cornerstone to a lifetime's enjoyment of poetry.

The New Dragon Book of Verse

The New Dragon Book of Verse PDF Author: Michael Harrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780198312406
Category : Children's poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Poetry in themes : Landscapes - Sea - Animals - Children - People - War - Mystery - Reflections.

Poetry Please: The Seasons

Poetry Please: The Seasons PDF Author: Various Poets
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571325467
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 163

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Book Description
This new anthology of poems, favourites from the nation's longest-running and best-loved request programme for verse, moves with the seasons, following the turning year from John Clare's 'pale splendour of the winter sun' to John Keats's 'Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness', by way of Larkin's 'young-leafed June' and Gerard Manley Hopkins' 'glassy peartree leaves and blooms' when 'Nothing is so beautiful as Spring'. As the year changes, so we change with it. Since time out of mind our daily lives have been shaped and directed by the seasons, and it is here that we find poems about harvest and hardship, growth and new life, the warmth of the life-giving sun, Christmas and the closing of the year. Poetry Please: Seasonal Poems is a vital and generous gathering to treasure.

The Poem

The Poem PDF Author: Don Paterson
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571341144
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Book Description
Don Paterson is not only one of our great poets, but also an esteemed authority on the art of poetry. In illuminating and engaging prose, he offers his treatise on the making and the philosophy of 'the poem'.Paterson unpicks the process of verse composition with ambition, scholarly flair, and occasional scurrilities, exploring the mechanics of how a poem works and, essentially, what a poem is. His findings take the form of three essays that make up the three sections of the book: 'Lyric' attends to the sound of the poem; 'Sign' envisages ideas of poetic meaning; while 'Metre' studies its underlying rhythms. Through his various professional guises - as poetry editor at Picador Macmillan, professor of poetry at the University of St Andrews, and major prize-winning poet - no one is better placed to grant this 'insider's perspective'. For all those intrigued by the inner workings of the art form and its fundamental secrets, The Poem will surprise and delight.

The New Faber Book of Love Poems

The New Faber Book of Love Poems PDF Author: James Fenton
Publisher: Faber & Faber Poetry
ISBN: 9780571218158
Category : Love poetry, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
'The New Faber Book of Love Poems' presents some of the most emotive and memorable lyric poems produced in the English language from the Renaissance to the present.