Best Remembered PoemsThe 126 poems in this superb collection of 19th- and 20th-century British and American verse range from the impassioned "Renascence" of Edna St. Vincent Millay to Edward Lear's whimsical "The Owl and the Pussycat" and James Whitcomb Riley’s homespun "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Famous poets such as Wordsworth, Tennyson, Whitman, and Frost are well-represented, as are less well-known poets such as John McCrae ("In Flanders Fields") and Ernest Thayer ("Casey at the Bat"). Includes 10 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Owl and the Pussycat," "Casey at the Bat," "Jabberwocky," "O Captain! My Captain!," "Paul Revere's Ride," "Ozymandias," "The Raven," "Because I Could Not Stop for Death," "Mending Wall," and "Ode on a Grecian Urn." |
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Crítica de los usuarios - LisaMaria_C - LibraryThingI'm on the fence about keeping this on my bookshelves in an internet age where almost all of these are in the public domain and easily searched for, so I don't need it on hand to say, be able to ... Leer comentario completo
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Crítica de los usuarios - ostrom - LibraryThingIt contains many famous and several infamous poems, and it features many of the poems that my generation's parents and grandparents knew and, i some cases, memorized. Our generation may be the last to have any strong connection to any of these poems, so the book is a bit of a museum. Leer comentario completo
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