Ginsberg's celebrated 1956 poem brought the writing of the Beat Generation to widespread attention. In the words of a critic who was there, when Ginsberg read "Howl" aloud for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco in October of 1955, the audience knew "at the deepest level that a barrier had been broken, that a human voice and body ...
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.
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 fourth edition of this standard work contains 1800 poems by 300 poets, with 600 poems and 100 poets newly included. The anthology offers more poetry by women (40 new poets), with special attention to early women poets. The book also includes a greater diversity of American poetry, with double the number of poems by African American, Hispanic, ...
This thorough revision renders the remarkable range of styles, subjects and voices in English language poetry, from Walt Whitman and Thomas Hardy in the late 19th century to Carol Ann Duffy and Sherman Alexie in the 21st. With 195 poets and 1596 poems, the volumes richly represent the major figures: Yeats, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Hughes, Olson, ...
Brief and affordable, this pocket-sized anthology focus on the poems at a cost well under that of traditional anthologies. Chronologically organized, the selections represent the full range of poetic tradition from popular ballads to contemporary work. Diversity and flexibility are reflected in the selections by women and writers of color- ...
From the thousands chosen by Garrison Keillor to read on his NPR program A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, this selection of 350 poems is sorted by subject: "Day's Work," "Sons and Daughters," "Resurrection," and more. The authors range from William Shakespeare to Robert Haas.
Organized under 11 headings, including "Epiphany", "Nature", "The Secret of a Thing", "Travel", "Places", "The Moment", these poems brilliantly render a variety of experience palpable and immediate. It brings together 500 of the world's greatest poems written throughout the ages by more than 200 poets.
Titled in Garrison Keillor's typical low-key, plainspoken way, GOOD POEMS FOR HARD TIMES (a spinoff from his 2002 anthology, GOOD POEMS) contains a wide selection of poems in English. Many are by living writers, but the time period represented ranged from the 16th century to the 21st.
This is a reprint of a seminal anthology, one which collected the poetry of future greats John Ashbery, Barbara Guest, Frank O'Hara, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson before they were the household names (for poets, at least) they later became.
From Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, and John Berryman to Allen Ginsburg, John Ashbery, and Frank O'Hara, here are the iconic poets of the past half-century, men and women who have used and reshaped the American language in all its vigorous, daring, tender, and intimate depth and breadth.
Adapted from Michael Meyer's best-selling "Bedford Introduction to Literature," this anthology responds to the needs of all kinds of poetry courses. Instructors across the country report that especially at schools where there is a decreased emphasis on literature and the humanities, students do not necessarily see literature as relevant to their ...
This anthology of poetry--which includes work by W. H. Auden, Mary Oliver, Rita Dove, Louise Glück, and more--concentrates on poems about humanity and its strengths.
Using works by poets ranging from Antonio Machado and Pablo Neruda to Galway Kinnell and Franz Kafka, Roger Housden presents each poem as a catalyst, then creates a text upon which the reader is invited to reflect more deeply.
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Wright and renowned editor Lehman present the 21st edition of the Best American Poetry series, which Robert Pinsky calls, as good a comprehensive overview of contemporary poetry as there can be.
Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes have brought together an inspired and diverse selection, ranging from undisputed masterpieces to rare discoveries, as well as drawing upon works in translation and traditional poems from oral cultures. In effect, this anthology has transformed the way we define and appreciate poetry, and it will continue to do so for ...
Volume Two of the POEMS OF THE MILLENNIUM set, this book covers experimental poetry from World War II to the end of the 20th century. Global in scope, the book includes selections from the works of Paul Celan, Aime Cesaire, Diane di Prima, Dizzy Gillespie, William Carlos Williams, and a veritable avant-gardist's pantheon of other poets.
Many students today are puzzled by the meaning and purpose of poetry. "Poems, Poets, Poetry "demystifies the form and introduces students to its artistry and pleasures, using methods that Helen Vendler has successfully used herself over her long, celebrated career. Guided by Vendler's erudite yet down-to-earth approach, students at all levels can ...
Beginning with such early sacred masterpieces as the "Upanishads", the "Book of Psalms" and the "Bhagavad Gita", this anthology contains the poetry of various religous faiths.
This volume contains a rich selection of poems by England's six great Romantic poets: William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and John Keats. Encompassing a broad range of subjects, styles, and moods, the emphasis of these late 18th and early 19th century poets is imagination and individual ...
Rich selection of powerful, moving verse includes Brooke's "The Soldier," Owen's "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "In Flanders Fields," by Lieut. Col. McCrae, more by Hardy, Kipling, many others.
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