Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 12 : Jennifer Smith and Elizabeth Thomason, editors ; foreword by David Kelly. - 1 online resource (xx, 298 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Anorexic / Eavan Boland -- An Arundel tomb / Philip Larkin -- The base stealer / Robert Francis -- The Czar's last Christmas letter. A barn in the Urals / Norman Dubie -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin / Alden Nowlan -- A grafted tongue / John Montague -- Having a Coke with you / Frank O'Hara -- Hope is a tattered flag / Carl Sandburg -- The lamb / William Blake -- maggie and milly and molly and may / e. e. cummings -- My mother pieced quilts / Teresa Palomo Acosta -- On freedom's ground / Richard Wilbur -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- A tall man executes a jig / Irving Layton -- Wilderness gothic / Al Purdy.

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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Boland, Eavan. Anorexic.
Larkin, Philip. Arundel tomb.
Francis, Robert, 1901-1987. Base stealer.
Dubie, Norman, 1945- Czar's last Christmas letter.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. Filling station.
Nowlan, Alden. For Jean Vincent D'abbadie, Baron St.-Castin.
Montague, John. Grafted tongue.
O'Hara, Frank, 1926-1966. Having a Coke with you.
Sandburg, Carl, 1878-1967. Hope is a tattered flag.
Blake, William, 1757-1827. Lamb.
Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962. Maggie and milly and molly and may.
Acosta, Teresa Palomo. My mother pieced quilts.
Wilbur, Richard, 1921- On freedom's ground.
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744. Rape of the lock.
Layton, Irving, 1912-2006. Tall man executes a jig.
Purdy, Al, 1918-2000. Wilderness gothic.


Poetry--Study and teaching.
Poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern--20th century.

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