Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 16 : David Galens, project editor ; foreword by David Kelly. - 1 online resource (xx, 305 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Business / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Colibri / Martin Espada -- Hugh Selwyn Mauberley / Ezra Pound -- I stop writing the poem / Tess Gallagher -- Merlin enthralled / Richard Wilbur -- Much madness is divinest sense / Emily Dickinson -- My father's song / Simon Ortiz -- Reunions with a ghost / Ai -- Song of a citizen / Czeslaw Milosz -- Sonnet XXIX / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Southbound on the freeway / May Swenson -- Story from bear country / Leslie Marmon Silko -- Sunday morning / Wallace Stevens -- Three times my life has opened / Jane Hirshfield -- Ways to live / William Stafford -- What my child learns of the sea / Audre Lorde.

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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Cruz, Victor Hernandez, 1949- Business.
Espada, Martin, 1957- Colibri.
Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972. Hugh Selwyn Mauberley.
Gallagher, Tess. I stop writing the poem.
Wilbur, Richard, 1921- Merlin enthralled.
Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886. Much madness is divinest sense.
Ortiz, Simon J., 1941- My father's song.
Ai, 1947-2010. Reunions with a ghost.
Milosz, Czeslaw. Song of a citizen.
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 1806-1861. Sonnet XXIX.
Swenson, May. Southbound on the freeway.
Silko, Leslie, 1948- Story from bear country.
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. Sunday morning.
Hirshfield, Jane, 1953- Three times my life has opened.
Stafford, William, 1914-1993. Ways to live.
Lorde, Audre. What my child learns of the sea.


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

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