Americans' Favorite Poems

Americans' Favorite Poems PDF Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393048209
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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A collection of favorite poems sent in by thousands of Americans, with selections ranging from Shakespeare to Allen Ginsberg, includes comments from normal readers on how the poems affect them.

Americans' Favorite Poems

Americans' Favorite Poems PDF Author: Robert Pinsky
Publisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393048209
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 327

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Book Description
A collection of favorite poems sent in by thousands of Americans, with selections ranging from Shakespeare to Allen Ginsberg, includes comments from normal readers on how the poems affect them.

Favorite American Poems

Favorite American Poems PDF Author: Paul Negri
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486422527
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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Presents a collection of over one hundred American poems spanning more than three hundred fifty years and includes works by Colonial poet Anne Bradstreet, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot.

The Best Loved Poems of the American People

The Best Loved Poems of the American People PDF Author: Hazel Felleman
Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.
ISBN: 0385000197
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 708

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Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.

101 Great American Poems

101 Great American Poems PDF Author: The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486110265
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 99

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Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.

Lives

Lives PDF Author: Lee Bennett Hopkins
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 006027767X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council

Favorite Poems

Favorite Poems PDF Author: William Wordsworth
Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 308

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Favorite Poems

Favorite Poems PDF Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 108

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Best Remembered Poems

Best Remembered Poems PDF Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486116409
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 226

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The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost to less well-known poets. Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.

Favorite Poems Old and New

Favorite Poems Old and New PDF Author:
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0385076967
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 642

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"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasured for over 60 years, here is the only poetry collection your family needs—brimming with favorite, classic poems carefully selected to inspire young readers. Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry. "If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."—Kirkus "A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."—Library Journal "This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."—The Horn Book

An American Sunrise: Poems

An American Sunrise: Poems PDF Author: Joy Harjo
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 1324003871
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129

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A nationally best-selling volume of wise, powerful poetry from the first Native American Poet Laureate of the United States. In this stunning collection, Joy Harjo finds blessings in the abundance of her homeland and confronts the site where the Mvskoke people, including her own ancestors, were forcibly displaced. From her memory of her mother’s death, to her beginnings in the Native rights movement, to the fresh road with her beloved, Harjo’s personal life intertwines with tribal histories to create a space for renewed beginnings.