One Hundred and One Famous Poems (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1435114760 ISBN 13: 9781435114760

Publisher: Sterling Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether you’re looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps you’re feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are at your fingertips.  

 

From the Romantic poets like Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats to the Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson, this comprehensive collection contains examples of the many periods of writing from England to Scotland and on to the United States.

 

Included are such favorites as:

 

Walt Whitman’s O Captain! My Captain!

Eugene Field’s Little Boy Blue

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s To a Skylark

Joyce Kilmer’s Trees

Robert Burns’ Letter to a Young Friend

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s Paul Revere’s Ride

Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven

 

Three indices let you find your favorite poems by title, author, and first line.

About this title

About the Author:

Roy Jay Cook was a published author, compiler, and an editor of children's books. Some of the published credits of Roy Jay Cook include 101 Famous Poems.

About this edition

• Publisher: Sterling Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1435114760
• ISBN 13: 9781435114760
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256