Poetry for students. presenting analysis, context and criticism on commonly studied poetry / Volume 30 : Sara Constantakis, project editor. - 1 online resource (xix, 379 pages) : illustrations, photographs. - Gale eBooks .

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Includes bibliographies and index.

Anyone lived in a pretty how town / e. e. cummings -- The centaur / May Swenson -- Follower / Seamus Heaney -- Freeway 280 / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning / Alice Walker -- I, too / Langston Hughes -- A nocturnal reverie / Anne Finch -- Oranges / Gary Soto -- The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry -- Slam, dunk, and hook / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Sunstone / Octavio Paz -- The taxi / Amy Lowell -- Thanatopsis / William Cullen Bryant -- The walrus and the carpenter / Lewis Carroll -- Ye goatherd gods / Sir Philip Sidney -- Young / Anne Sexton.

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.



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Cummings, E. E. 1894-1962. Anyone lived in a pretty how town.
Swenson, May. Centaur.
Heaney, Seamus, 1939- Follower.
Cervantes, Lorna Dee. Freeway 280.
Walker, Alice, 1944- Good night, Willie Lee, I'll see you in the morning.
Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. I, too.
Winchilsea, Anne Kingsmill Finch, Countess of, 1661-1720. Nocturnal reverie.
Soto, Gary. Oranges.
Berry, Wendell, 1934- Peace of wild things.
Komunyakaa, Yusef. Slam, dunk, & hook.
Paz, Octavio, 1914-1998. English & Spanish. Piedra de sol.
Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925. Taxi.
Bryant, William Cullen, 1794-1878. Thanatopsis.
Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898. Walrus and the carpenter.
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586. Goatherd gods.
Sexton, Anne, 1928-1974. Young.


Poetry--Study and teaching.
Poetry--History and criticism.
Poetry, Modern--19th century.
Poetry, Modern--20th century.
Poetry, Modern--21st century.

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