Author: James Whitcomb Riley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781258094249
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 918
Book Description
Few lives have left so vivid an impression upon a native environment asthat of James Whitcomb Riley, the Hoosier Poet. His folksy, down-home rhymes arestill enormously popular in his native state and beyond. This publication bringsback into print the complete Riley repertoire of more than 1,000 poems, includingsuch all-time favorites as "Little Orphant Annie" (far and away thebest-loved of all Riley characters), "The Raggedy Man," "Our HiredGirl," "A Barefoot Boy," "The Bumblebee,""Granny," and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." It issaid that Indiana's best-known poet did not portray but invented the typicalHoosier. Applying imaginative skill, Riley altered and adapted the people around himto suit his purpose. As Jeannette Covert Nolan once put it, the figure who emergedwas "a mellow, humorous rustic, a quaint, bucolic philosopher, unlettered butgifted with an earthy shrewdness, a peasant wisdom, a heart of gold, speaking adrawling, hybrid tongue, a dubious dialect as yet unidentified by anyphilologist." In his heyday Riley was famous all over the world.Though often called a children's poet, he actually wrote about children for adults, delighting in emotional reminders of an irretrievable past -- perhaps one that neverquite existed. Throughout his life Riley looked back wistfully and sentimentallyupon his childhood days, turning the longings and unfulfilled dreams of youth intoverse. So celebrated was he in Indiana that in many public elementary schools, students were required to memorize and recite one of his poems every week foradmiring audiences of visiting parents. If I Knew What PoetsKnow If I knew what poets know, Did I know what poets do, If I knew whatpoets know, Would I write a rhyme Would I sing a song, I would find atheme Of the buds that never blow Sadder than the pigeon's coo Sweeter thanthe placid flow In the summer-time? When the days are long? Of the fairestdream: Would I sing of golden seeds Where I found a heart in pain, I wouldsing of love that lives Springing up in ironweeds? I would make it gladagain; On the errors it forgives: And of rain-drop turned to snow, And thefalse should be the true, And the world would better grow If I knew whatpoets know? Did I know what poets do. If I knew what poets know. -- JamesWhitcomb Riley
The Complete Poetical Works of James Whitcomb Riley
Selected Poetical Works: Blake
Author: William Blake
Publisher: Alma Classics
ISBN: 9781847498212
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry, he created works that are often difficult to categorize and that, while harking back to a classical and biblical past, also look forward to the future – with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat poets among his many modern admirers. This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's poetry, from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the “prophetic works” inspired by the French Revolution, covering over two decades of poetical activity and displaying the author's originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best.
Publisher: Alma Classics
ISBN: 9781847498212
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Blake occupies a very special place in the pantheon of English Romanticism: just as innovative and brilliant as a painter and draughtsman as in the field of poetry, he created works that are often difficult to categorize and that, while harking back to a classical and biblical past, also look forward to the future – with authors such as T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley and the Beat poets among his many modern admirers. This volume includes an essential selection of Blake's poetry, from the lesser-known Poetical Sketches to his celebrated Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the “prophetic works” inspired by the French Revolution, covering over two decades of poetical activity and displaying the author's originality and independence of mind at their sparkling best.
The Poetical Works of Alfred Tennyson
Author: Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Poetical Works (including Recent Poems)
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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Complete Poetical Works
Author: Amy Lowell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A collection of the works of American poet Amy Lowell.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
A collection of the works of American poet Amy Lowell.
The Poetical Works of John Keats
Author: John Keats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott
Author: Sir Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The Works of 'Banjo' Paterson
Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264306
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Collection of 'Banjo' Paterson's poetry evoking the rough life and values of Australia's outback.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853264306
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Collection of 'Banjo' Paterson's poetry evoking the rough life and values of Australia's outback.
Complete Poetical Works
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Baronet
Author: Walter Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description