| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 336 pages) : illustrations, photos. |
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Gale eBooks
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"ISSN 1094-7019." |
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Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Apple sauce for Eve / Marge Piercy -- Death sentences / Radmila Lazic -- The forest / Susan Stewart -- If / Rudyard Kipling -- It's a woman's world / Eavan Boland -- Metamorphoses / Ovid -- Omen / Edward Hirsch -- On the threshold / Eugenio Montale -- The passionate shepherd to his love / Christopher Marlowe -- Pineapples and pomegranates / Paul Muldoon -- The satyr's heart / Brigit Pegeen Kelly -- The Toni Morrison dreams / Elizabeth Alexander -- Trompe l'Oeil / Mary Jo Salter -- What I would ask my husband's dead father / Sharon Hashimoto -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- Why the classics / Zbigniew Herbert. |
| 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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Piercy, Marge. Apple sauce for Eve.
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Lazic, Radmila, 1949- Death sentences.
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Stewart, Susan (Susan A.), 1952- Forest.
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Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936. If.
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Boland, Eavan. It's a woman's world.
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Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D. Metamorphoses.
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Hirsch, Edward. Omen.
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Montale, Eugenio, 1896-1981. On the threshold.
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Marlowe, Christopher, 1564-1593. Passionate shepherd to his love.
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Muldoon, Paul. Pineapples and pomegranates.
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Kelly, Brigit Pegeen, 1951- Satyr's heart.
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Alexander, Elizabeth, 1962- Toni Morrison dreams.
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Salter, Mary Jo. Trompe l'Oeil.
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Hashimoto, Sharon. What I would ask my husband's dead father.
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Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892. When I heard the learn'd astronomer.
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Herbert, Zbigniew. Why the classics.
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Poetry -- Study and teaching.
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Poetry -- History and criticism.
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Poetry, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Hacht, Anne Marie, editor.
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Gale Group.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Poetry for students, Volume 22. Detroit, Mich. : Gale, c2005 9780787669614 |
| ISBN |
9781414405711 (electronic book) |
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1414405715 (electronic book) |
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9780787669614 |
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078766961X |
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