Rose, where did you get that red? : teaching great poetry to children / Kenneth Koch. [print]

Tiger William Blake -- Argument of his book Robert Herrick -- Valediction: forbidding mourning John Donne -- Songs William Shakespeare -- Song of myself, sections 1 and 2 Walt Whitman -- Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird Wallace Stevens -- This is just to say; The locust tree in flower; Between walls William Carlos Williams -- Romance sonambulo; Arbole, arbole Federico Garcia Lorca -- Into the dusk-charged air John Ashbery -- Voyelles Arthur Rimbaud. Introduction to the anthology -- Cuckoo song Author unknown -- Irish dancer -- Sonetto/Sonnet Dante Alighieri -- Demon lover Author unknown -- Lord Randal -- Sonnet Sir Philip Sidney -- Passionate shepherd to his love Christopher Marlowe -- Over hill, over dale William Shakespeare -- Under the greenwood tree -- Aubade -- Orpheus with his lute -- Sonnet -- Delight in disorder Robert Herrick -- How violets came blew -- How roses came red -- How marigolds came yellow -- Heaven George Herbert -- Song Thomas Carew -- Lamb William Blake -- Sick rose -- Kubla Khan Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Childe Harold's pilgrimage George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Ode to the west wind Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode on a Grecian urn John Keats -- Home thoughts, from abroad Robert Browning -- Song of myself, section 15 -- Song of myself, section 26 Walt Whitman -- I never saw a moor Emily Dickinson -- God's grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Fleurs/Flowers Arthur Rimbaud -- Who goes with Fergus? William Butler Yeats -- Coeur couronne et miroir/Heart crown and mirror Giullaume Apollinaire -- White horse D.H. Lawrence -- Trees in the garden -- Humming-bird -- Der knabe/The boy Rainer Maria Rilke -- Aus einer kindheit/From a childhood -- Anecdote of the prince of peacocks Wallace Stevens -- Disillusionment of ten o'clock -- Bantams in pine-woods -- Wood-weasal Marianne Moore -- Je veux dire ton nom/I want to say your name Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Cirque d'hiver Elizabeth Bishop -- Piano and drums Gabriel Okara -- Etiquettes jaunes Frank O'Hara -- True account of talking to the sun at Fire Island -- Painter John Ashbery. In praise of the orange tree Ch'u Yuan -- Oath of friendship Author unknown -- Eating bamboo shoots Po Chu-i -- Cold mountain poems Han-shan. What a wonderful day! Shiki -- Wild goose Issa -- No one spoke Ryota -- Old pond Basho -- With what voice. Magnificent bull -- Song for the sun that disappeared behind the rainclouds. Dawn song -- Love-charm song -- War god's horse song.

The author explains his innovative approach to teaching youngsters to read, write, and appreciate poetry.

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