| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 318 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-7019." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- Ballad of Birmingham / Dudley Randall -- Birch canoe / Carter Revard -- Cargoes / John Masefield -- Casey at the bat / Ernest Lawrence Thayer -- Digging / Seamus Heaney -- Easter 1916 / W. B. Yeats -- Facing it / Yusef Komunyakaa -- The gold lily / Louise Gluck -- I heard a fly buzz-when I died- Emily Dickinson -- In Flanders field / John McCrae -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Lament for the Dorsets / Al Purdy -- Leviathan / W. S. Merwin -- Lost sister / Cathy Song -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Sonnet 55 / William Shakespeare -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell. |
| Summary |
Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. |
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MacLeish, Archibald, 1892-1982. Ars poetica.
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Randall, Dudley, 1914-2000. Ballad of Birmingham.
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Revard, Carter. Birch canoe.
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Masefield, John, 1878-1967. Cargoes.
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Thayer, Ernest Lawrence, 1863-1940. Casey at the bat.
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Heaney, Seamus, 1939- Digging.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. Easter 1916.
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Komunyakaa, Yusef. Facing it.
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Gluck, Louise, 1943- Gold lily.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. I heard a fly buzz-when I died.
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McCrae, John, 1872-1918. In Flanders fields.
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 1772-1834. Kubla Khan.
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Purdy, Al, 1918-2000. Lament for the Dorsets.
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Merwin, W. S. (William Stanley), 1927- Leviathan.
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Song, Cathy, 1955- Lost sister.
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Frost, Robert, 1874-1963. Mending wall.
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Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. Sonnets. No. 55.
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Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Supermarket in California.
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Marvell, Andrew, 1621-1678. To his coy mistress.
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Ruby, Mary K., editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poetry for students, Volume 5. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c1999 9780787635664 |
| ISBN |
9781414428505 (electronic book) |
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1414428502 (electronic book) |
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9780787635664 |
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0787635669 |
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