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The Inferno

The Inferno more books like this

by John Ciardi (Translator), Archibald T MacAllister (Introduction by), Dante Alighieri

"The Divine Comedy" is the story of a pilgrim's journey to God. A man named Dante is lost in dark wood; through the intervention of his beloved Beatrice in Heaven, the Roman poet Virgil appears in the forest to lead Dante to her. In order to reach heaven, however, they must first pass through Hell and Purgatory. After journeying through Hell ...

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The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio, the Paradiso

The Divine Comedy: The Inferno, the Purgatorio, the Paradiso more books like this

by Dante Alighieri, Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (Translator)

For the first time, John Ciardi's translations of Dante's three soaring canticles have been gathered together in a single volume.

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You Read to Me, I'll Read to You

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You more books like this

by John Ciardi, Edward Gorey (Illustrator)

A collection of poetry intended for children and adults to read to each other. Illustrations accompany the verses.

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How does a poem mean?. more books like this

by John Ciardi

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A Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language more books like this

by John Ciardi

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I Met a Man more books like this

by John Ciardi, R Osburn (Illustrator)

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Good Words to You: An All-New Dictionary and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language more books like this

by John Ciardi

A completely new companion volume to John Ciardi's bestselling Browser's Dictionaries, which have sold over 75,000 copies in hardcover alone. This contains hundreds of stories, legends, facts and fallacies about words and phrases, their origins and their mysteries.

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A Second Browser's Dictionary, and Native's Guide to the Unknown American Language more books like this

by John Ciardi

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The man who sang the sillies; [poems] more books like this

by John Ciardi, Edward Gorey

A collection of twenty-five humorous and nonsense poems.

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Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks

Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks more books like this

by John Ciardi

A collection of 41 humorous limericks. Illustrated with b&w drawings.

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The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: The Paradiso

The Divine Comedy: Volume 3: The Paradiso more books like this

by Dante Alighieri, John Ciardi (Translator), John Freccero (Adapted by)

Dante's masterpiece of medieval literature contains many levels of meaning, including the literal (Dante's trip through hell, purgatory, and paradise); the allegorical (the progression of the soul toward goodness); and the moral (what it takes to lead a good life). Dante's great love, Beatrice, is seen in the poem as the personification of love ...

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The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: The Purgatorio

The Divine Comedy: Volume 2: The Purgatorio more books like this

by Dante Alighieri, Alighieri Dante, John Ciardi (Translator)

"The Divine Comedy" is the story of a pilgrim's journey to God. A man named Dante is lost in dark wood; through the intervention of his beloved Beatrice in Heaven, the Roman poet Virgil appears in the forest to lead Dante to her. In order to reach heaven, however, they must first pass through Hell and Purgatory. After journeying through Hell ...

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You Know Who

You Know Who more books like this

by John Ciardi, Edward Gorey (Photographer)

Kids who slam doors, climb trees, and skin their knees will recognize themselves in these zany and good-humored poems.

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Someone Could Win a Polar Bear

Someone Could Win a Polar Bear more books like this

by J Ciardi

Another classic collection of nonsense verse by the renowned poet.

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Limericks, too gross

Limericks, too gross more books like this

by Isaac Asimov, John Ciardi

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The Reason for the Pelican

The Reason for the Pelican more books like this

by John Ciardi

An illustrated collection of poems, including "The Bugle-Billed Bazoo", "Prattle", "Lucifer Leverett Lightningbug", and "The Saginsack".

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A Third Browser's Dictionary more books like this

by John Ciardi

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Saipan: War Diary (C) more books like this

by John Ciardi

Ciardi records his days and nights as a gunner on a B-29 in the South Pacific during four of the last terrible months of World War II.

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Echoes: Poems Left (C) more books like this

by John Ciardi

These 45 poems by the late John Ciardi were unpublished and unknown until his papers were sorted following his death in 1986. As with all his poems, these are alive with Ciardi's precise observations, heightened command of language, and sure mastery of form.

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Limericks more books like this

by Isaac Asimov, John Ciardi

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Limericks, Too Gross: Or Two Dozen Dirty Dozen Stanzas more books like this

by Isaac Asimov, John Ciardi

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Ciardi Himself (C) more books like this

by John Ciardi

An excellent introduction to the man and his thoughts on the painstaking craftsmanship involved in the art of writing poetry, Ciardi Himself includes some hard lessons, but in the hands of this master teacher, the going is easy.

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Collected Poems Ciardi(p) more books like this

by John Ciardi, Edward M Cifelli (Editor)

From Twenty Books of Verse published between 1940 and 1993, John Ciardi gives us poems of love written with care and honest discernment; poems of the natural world that reveal humanity's kinship to spiders and nebulae, oceans and thickets; and poems that tellingly render the ritual dance of human life and mortality. Ciardi declared in the Saturday ...

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Mid-Century American Poets more books like this

by John Ciardi

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A Second Browser's Dictionary more books like this

by John Ciardi

Delightful explorations of the roots (and branches) of words and phrases.

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