The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• A group of pilgrims bound for Canterbury Cathedral agree to pass the weary miles by taking turns at storytelling. The travelers ― noble, coarse, jolly... Lees meer

Favorite Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the most popular American poet of his time, and one of the most famous American poets of all time. It has b... Lees meer

Copper Sun

Countee Cullen

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• Countee Cullen (1903-46) was an African American poet, playwright, and novelist and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Copper Sun , a collect... Lees meer

Acrostic Poetry: The First-Ever Anthology

Michael Croland

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• In this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acros... Lees meer

Paradise Lost

John Milton

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• John Milton's great 17th-century epic draws upon Bible stories and classical mythology to explore the meaning of existence, as understood by people of... Lees meer

Chamber Music, Pomes Penyeach and Other Poems

James Joyce

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• James Joyce (1882-1941) led the vanguard of twentieth-century fiction, and his experimental use of language and stream of consciousness continues to c... Lees meer

Selected Poems

John Milton

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• Best known as the author of the epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton (1608-74) was also an accomplished writer of shorter verse forms. This treasury p... Lees meer

100 Best-Loved Poems

Philip Smith

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• Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating ... Lees meer

Christmas Carols

Shane Weller

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• Carolers, choral groups and sing-along enthusiasts will welcome this convenient collection of over 50 of the most popular Christmas carols. Compact, i... Lees meer

Elizabethan Poetry

Bob Blaisdell

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• The relative peace and prosperity of the Elizabethan age (1558-1603) fostered the growth of one of the most fruitful eras in literary history. Lyric p... Lees meer

Poems and Songs Celebrating America

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• A tribute to the ideals and accomplishments of American history, this anthology features inspiring verse by Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, Langston Hugh... Lees meer

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman

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• In 1855, Walt Whitman published -- at his own expense -- the first edition of Leaves of Grass , a visionary volume of twelve poems. Showing the influe... Lees meer

To My Husband and Other Poems

Anne Bradstreet

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• The daughter of one colonial governor and the wife of another, Anne Dudley Bradstreet (1612-72) was also a skilled and accomplished writer, whose coll... Lees meer

Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies

Rainer Maria Rilke

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• During three feverish weeks in 1922, Rainer Maria Rilke composed the 55 sonnets that constitute Sonnets to Orpheus . Inspired by the death of a friend... Lees meer

Spring and All

William Carlos Williams

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• Heavily influenced by T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," the poems of Spring and All express the author's beliefs about the role and form of art in a mod... Lees meer

There Once Was a Limerick Anthology

Croland Michael

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• Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem ... Lees meer

The Dover Anthology of Bird Poetry

Edited by Nicholas Zachariah Kay, Nicholas Kay

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• Poets have long treated birds as a captivating source of inspiration as metaphors, references, and symbols of death, eternity, life, love, power, reli... Lees meer

Complete Sonnets

William Shakespeare

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• Without a doubt the most important of Shakespeare's nondramatic works, the sonnets have engendered reams of scholarly disputation as to the identity o... Lees meer

Selected Poems

Emily Dickinson

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• Gernerally considered among the greatest American poets, Emily Dickinson has been read, studied and admired by generations of literature students and ... Lees meer

101 Great American Poems

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• Focusing on popular verse from the 19th and 20th centuries, this treasury of great American poems invites poetry lovers to savor a taste of the nation... Lees meer

Songs of Milarepa

Milarepa

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• A Buddhist holy man whose songs have been sung and studied since the twelfth century, Milarepa exchanged a life of sin and maliciousness for one of co... Lees meer

Great Love Poems

Shane Weller

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• Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out f... Lees meer

Goblin Market and Other Poems

Christina Rossetti

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• An important and often-quoted literary figure, the English poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) wrote some of the most beautiful and voluptuous poetry ... Lees meer

Early Poems

William Butler Yeats

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• One of the greatest poets of any century, the Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for muc... Lees meer