| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 284 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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| Note |
"ISSN 1094-7019." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Beowulf / Richard Wilbur -- Chocolates / Louis Simpson -- The eagle / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Go down, Moses / Anonymous -- The hospital window / James Dickey -- Island of the three Marias / Alberto Rios -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- The milkfish gatherers / James Fenton -- A narrow fellow in the grass / Emily Dickinson -- Overture to a dance of locomotives / William Carlos Williams -- Paradoxes and oxymorons / John Ashbery -- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly / N. Scott Momaday -- Tonight I can write / Pablo Neruda -- A valediction: forbidding mourning / John Donne -- The war against the trees / Stanley Kunitz -- The weight of sweetness / Li-Young Lee. |
| 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. |
| Subject |
Wilbur, Richard, 1921- Beowulf.
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Simpson, Louis, 1923-2012. Chocolates.
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Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892. Eagle.
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Dickey, James. Hospital window.
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Rios, Alberto. Island of the three Marias.
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Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Jabberwocky.
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Fenton, James, 1949- Milkfish gatherers.
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Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Narrow fellow in the grass.
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Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963. Overture to a dance of locomotives.
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Ashbery, John, 1927- Paradoxes and oxymorons.
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Momaday, N. Scott, 1934- To a child running with outstretched arms in Canyon de Chelly.
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Neruda, Pablo, 1904-1973. Tonight I can write.
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Donne, John, 1572-1631. Valediction forbidding mourning.
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Kunitz, Stanley, 1905-2006. War against the trees.
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Lee, Li-Young, 1957- Weight of sweetness.
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Go down Moses.
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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 |
Thomason, Elizabeth, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poetry for students, Volume 11. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Group, c2001 9780787646899 |
| ISBN |
9781414428567 (electronic book) |
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1414428561 (electronic book) |
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9780787646899 |
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078764689X |
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