Americans' Favorite Poems
Title | Americans' Favorite Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Pinsky |
Publisher | W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | 327 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780393048209 |
A collection of favorite poems sent in by thousands of Americans, with selections ranging from Shakespeare to Allen Ginsberg, includes comments from normal readers on how the poems affect them.
Favorite American Poems
Title | Favorite American Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Negri |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2002-09-18 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9780486422527 |
Presents a collection of over one hundred American poems spanning more than three hundred fifty years and includes works by Colonial poet Anne Bradstreet, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot.
The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Title | The Best Loved Poems of the American People PDF eBook |
Author | Hazel Felleman |
Publisher | Random House Digital, Inc. |
Total Pages | 708 |
Release | 1936 |
Genre | American poetry |
ISBN | 0385000197 |
Contains over 575 of the most frequently requested poems in America, divided by subject and indexed by authors and first lines.
Favorite Poems Old and New
Title | Favorite Poems Old and New PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Doubleday Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | 642 |
Release | 1957-09-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0385076967 |
"Children are poets before they grow up and they should live with poems. I hope this book will encourage them to do so."—Eleanor Roosevelt Beloved and treasured for over 60 years, here is the only poetry collection your family needs—brimming with favorite, classic poems carefully selected to inspire young readers. Over 700 classic and modern poems written by poets from William Shakespeare to J. R. R. Tolkien, Emily Dickinson to Langston Hughes, and covering a range of favorite topics—pets, playtime, family, nature, and nonsense—ensure that there’s a poem to please every child. A truly comprehensive collection that is the ideal way of introducing children to the joys of reading poetry. "If your children think they don't like poetry, expose them to this collection . . . and I defy them to resist its magic."—Kirkus "A fine book for parents to read aloud to their children."—Library Journal "This volume stands out for the comprehensiveness of its selection."—The Horn Book
101 Great American Poems
Title | 101 Great American Poems PDF eBook |
Author | The American Poetry & Literacy Project |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2012-04-04 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0486110265 |
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.
The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems
Title | The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems PDF eBook |
Author | Donald Hall |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | 98 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0195123735 |
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
Lives
Title | Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Lee Bennett Hopkins |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Total Pages | 42 |
Release | 1999-04-07 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 006027767X |
Poetry that makes us appreciate the magnitude of lives filled with courage, enthusiasm, inspiration. Lives: Poems About Famous Americans is the ideal introduction to sixteen American personalities who have changed the course of history. Favorite anthologist Lee Bennett Hopkins has brought together the work of a number of accomplished writers and poets, among them Jane Yolen, Nikki Grimes, and X. J. Kennedy, to portray such figures as Sacagawea, Babe Ruth, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. Leslie Staubs portraits contain a poetry of their own, capturing a bit of history in the glint of smile or the reach of a hand. Lives is a book for all readers to savor. Notable Children's Trade Books in the Field of Social Studies 2000, National Council for SS & Child. Book Council