Best Remembered PoemsMartin Gardner Courier Corporation, 19 հնս, 2012 թ. - 240 էջ The 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th and 20th century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley’s homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." |
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... Poets. I will cite one typical example. Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a New York Presbyterian minister, authored a poem that begins: Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun ...
... Poets. I will cite one typical example. Maltbie Davenport Babcock, a New York Presbyterian minister, authored a poem that begins: Be strong! We are not here to play, to dream, to drift; We have hard work to do, and loads to lift; Shun ...
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... poet, essayist and critic of both literature and religion. His attacks on literal interpretation of the Bible made him one of England's pioneers in the “higher criticism” of Scripture. For ten years he was a professor of poetry at ...
... poet, essayist and critic of both literature and religion. His attacks on literal interpretation of the Bible made him one of England's pioneers in the “higher criticism” of Scripture. For ten years he was a professor of poetry at ...
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... , nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. WILLIAM BLAKE (1757– 1827) THE ARTIST, poet and mystic William.
... , nor peace, nor help for pain; And we are here as on a darkling plain Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night. WILLIAM BLAKE (1757– 1827) THE ARTIST, poet and mystic William.
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Martin Gardner. WILLIAM. BLAKE. (1757–. 1827). THE ARTIST, poet and mystic William Blake included his poem about the tiger in Songs of Experience (1794), where it was hand-lettered and accompanied by his drawing of a tiger prowling through ...
Martin Gardner. WILLIAM. BLAKE. (1757–. 1827). THE ARTIST, poet and mystic William Blake included his poem about the tiger in Songs of Experience (1794), where it was hand-lettered and accompanied by his drawing of a tiger prowling through ...
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... poet in his day that he was buried in Westminster Abbey. The story of his romantic elopement with the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the basis of Rudolf Besier's play The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930), later made into a ...
... poet in his day that he was buried in Westminster Abbey. The story of his romantic elopement with the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning was the basis of Rudolf Besier's play The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1930), later made into a ...
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