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1	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Two-Volume Edition Volume I: The Middle Ages Through the Eighteenth Century more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode (Editor), Professor John Hollander (Editor), J B Trapp (Editor) In one volume. This collection, published in six individual volumes or in this two-volume edition, presents the finest English literature from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century, with introductory matter and extensive annotation by six of the foremost critics and scholars writing today. see all copies from $3.83! new only from $17.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse more books like this by Professor John Hollander In his classic text Rhyme's Reason the distinguished poet and critic John Hollander surveys the schemes, patterns, and forms of English verse, illustrating each variation with an original and witty self-descriptive example. In this substantially expanded and revised edition, Hollander adds a section of examples taken from centuries of poetry that ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.00! \| SVS
3	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: 1800 to the Present more books like this by Sir Frank Kermode, Professor John Hollander, Professor Harold Bloom see all copies from $1.99! new only from $66.56! \| SVS
4	Rhymes Reason: A Guide to English Verse, New Enlarged Edition more books like this by Professor John Hollander In this witty handbook Hollander explains poetic form in the actual form in question. The entry on "sestina" is a sestina, "villanelle" is defined with a villanelle, and in turn each difficult form is rendered in an accessible, concrete example. Hollander also provides a more literary example of many of the forms, drawing models from throughout ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.97!
5	Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize more books like this by John Hollander (Editor) "Committed to Memory" is a collection of a hundred-and-some poems chosen specifically for memorization and for the particularly intense kind of silent reading with which a reader prepares to remember them. The poems, which embrace a wide variety of genres, structures and patterns, include old favorites and forgotteen gems. Careful choices were ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.73! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Oxford Anthology of English Literature: Volume II: The Literature of Renaissance England more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Sir Frank Kermode (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $52.01! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Committed to Memory more books like this by John Hollander (Editor) Presented by The Academy of American Poets, Committed to Memory is the essential poetry collection for every home library -- a gathering of the world's best-loved poems, chosen specifically for memorization. These poems carry on a timeless tradition kept alive not in libraries but through a cycle of reciting, listening, memorizing, and reciting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Christmas Poems more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Professor J D McClatchy (Editor) Christmas is both a holiday and a holy day, and from the start it has been associated with poetry, from the song of the seraphim above the manger to the cherished carols around the punch bowl. This garland of Christmas poems contains not only the ones you would insist on finding here ("A Visit from St. Nicholas," "Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming," ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	American Poetry more books like this by John Hollander (Editor), Sally Wern Comport (Illustrator) Like America itself, this selection of 26 poems and evocative accompanying illustrations celebrates freedom, cultural diversity, art and imagination This introductory collection of his most accessible and mesmerizing American poems of the last 200 years, includes work by: - Walt Whitman - Ralph Waldo Emerson - e.e.cummins - Maya Angelou - - Robert ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.07! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Sonnets, the Pel more books like this by William Shakespeare, John Hollander (Editor) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems: Selected Poems more books like this by Emma Lazarus, Professor John Hollander (Editor) John Hollander presents a fresh selection of Emma Lazarus's powerful verse, including the iconic poem that welcomes visitors to the Statue of Liberty, "The New Colossus." see all copies from $3.61! new only from $8.94! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language more books like this by John Hollander Demonstrating a poet's imaginative ear and a critic's range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the "melodious guile" with which poetry speaks to us. Through analysis of formal and rhetorical patterns in examples chosen from the whole spectrum of English and American poetry, Hollander describes how poems frame self-reflexive parables in ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $29.77! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	The Best American Poetry more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Introduction by), David Lehman (Foreword by) The appearance of The Best American Poetry every September is an eagerly awaited rite of fall -- as evidenced by soaring sales and terrific reviews. The popularity of the series is "ample proof that poetry is thriving" (The Orlando Sentinel), and this year's volume will dazzle and delight, instruct and inspire. Under the guiding vision of master ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) see all copies from $5.00! new only from $10.22!
15 view cover	The Work of Poetry more books like this by John Hollander This collection of essays surveys a range of poets from Dante to May Swenson and george Meredith to Marianne Moore, as well as works from the Psalms to "A Child's Garden of Verses". The essays are organized into three parts, the first of which "Poetic Substances", explores the nature of poetry and the poet. The essays in "Poetic Experiences" ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.71! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	American Poetry: The 19th Century Vol. 1: Volume 1: Freneau to Whitman more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) In nineteenth-century America, poetry was, part of everyday life, as familiar as a hymn, a love song, a patriotic exhortation. American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century reveals the vigor and diversity of a tradition embracing solitary visionaries and congenial storytellers, humorists and dissidents, songwriters and philosophers. These two volumes ... see all copies from $9.50! new only from $12.29! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	American Poetry: The 19th Century Vol 2: Volume 2 Melville Stickney Amern Indian Poetry Folk Songs Spirituals more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to ... see all copies from $2.54! new only from $10.73! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Picture Window: Poems more books like this by John Hollander In this deeply philosophical and highly inventive new collection, John Hollander, the distinguished author of numerous books of poetry, offers profound yet playful meditations on the reflective mind and on the words with which we come to know the world. In forms as varied as sonnets, songs, and ancient odes, he muses over the ways we use (and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Marriage Poems more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Kevin Young (Editor) A sparking collection of poems about virtually every aspect of matrimony--courtships and weddings, adulteries and separations, domestic harmony, wedded bliss. Here are marriages made in many cultures and eras, delightfully evoked by poets ranging from Ovid and Omar Khayyam to D.H. Lawrence and Mona Van Duyn. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Reflections on Espionage: The Question of Cupcake more books like this by Professor John Hollander This book-length poem by one of the major poets of our era is structured as a series of messages transmitted by a master spy to the director of spy operations and to a number of his fellow spies. The spy speaks of his own alienation and sense of purposelessness as a secret agent -- a metaphor for a human existence committed to ordering, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.24! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse more books like this by Various, Professor John Hollander (Editor) Distinguished poet and critic John Hollander offers, for the first time ever, a buoyant guided tour of American light verse-a tradition he delightfully pursues from Ambrose Bierce's sardonic "The Devil's Dictionary" quatrains to the latter-day comic inventions of Edward Gorey, Kenneth Koch, and James Merrill. Along the way, "American Wits" gathers ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.78! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Blue Wine and Other Poems more books like this by Professor John Hollander John Hollander's "Blue Wine and Other Poems," his first collection of verse since the appearance of his new and selected poems, "Spectral Emanations," shows one of our best poetic craftsmen in America moving into a new phase in his distinguished career. Poems on painting and sculpture, in which Hollander examines the static/dynamic interaction of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.55! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Words for Images more books like this by Professor John Hollander (Editor), Joanna Weber (Editor) Twenty two Yale Alumni wax poetic on favorite works. A good gift idea in an unsusual vertical format. see all copies from $6.64! new only from $50.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Animal poems more books like this by John Hollander The writers include Blake, Dickinson, Tennyson, Yeats, Wordsworth, and Keats. The captivating paintings by Simona Mulazanni make every page a delight. And the subject--animals, big and small, wild and tame-- has an irresistible appeal to children. William Blake's "The Tyger" burns bright in the lush image that accompanies the verse. Hillaire ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.91! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25	Tesserae: And Other Poems more books like this by John Hollander see all copies from $2.76! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions

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