Great Short Poems - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486411052 ISBN 13: 9780486411057

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2000

Riassunto

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.
Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Shakespeare's "When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes," "On His Blindness" by John Milton, William Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Amy Lowell, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Dylan Thomas, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and many others.
Attractive and inexpensive, this compilation of carefully chosen verse contains many of the most loved, most anthologized poems in the English language. Students, teachers, and any lover of great poetry will treasure this splendid collection.
Includes "The Road Not Taken," "Loveliest of Trees," and "Ozymandias."

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Sir Walter Ralegh Even Such Is Time William Shakespeare Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? "When, in Disgrace with Fortune and Men's Eyes" Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds John Donne "Death, Be Not Proud" Ben Jonson Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes John Webster A Dirge Robert Herrick "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Upon Julia's Clothes Francis Quarles On the World Thomas Crew The Unfading Beauty John Milton On His Blindness Sir John Suckling "Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?" Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband Richard Lovelace "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" Sir George Etherege To a Lady Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her Matthew Prior A Reasonable Affliction Alexander Pope Ode on Solitude John Gay Song Oliver Goldsmith When Lovely Woman Stoops to Folly George Crabbe A Marriage Ring William Blake The Tiger "Mock On, Mock On, Voltaire, Rousseau" The Sick Rose Robert Burns "A Red, Red Rose" William Wordsworth I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud My Heart Leaps Up She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways Walter Savage Landor Rose Aylmer Twenty Years Hence Thomas Moore "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms" Leigh Hunt Abou Ben Adhem Jenny Kiss'd Me Thomas Love Peacock Beneath the Cypress Shade "George Gordon, Lord Byron" So We'll Go No More a-Roving She Walks in Beauty Percy Bysshe Shelley Ozymandias John Keats When I Have Fears Hartley Coleridge Song Early Death Thomas Hood The Death-Bed Ralph Waldo Emerson Days Character Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song There Was a Little Girl Edgar Allan Poe To One in Paradise "Alfred, Lord Tennyson" The Splendor Falls Crossing the Bar The Eagle Flower in the Crannied Wall Edward FitzGerald The Three Arrows Robert Browning Meeting at Night Parting at Morning Pippa's Song Henry David Thoreau "I Was Born Upon Thy Bank, River" My Life Has Been the Poem Emily Brontë The Old Stoic Arthur Hugh Clough Say Not the Struggle Nought Availeth Walt Whitman A Noiseless Patient Spider I Hear America Singing Coventry Patmore The Kiss Magna Est Veritas George Meredith Lucifer in Starlight Emily Dickinson I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died The Soul Selects Her Own Society My Life Closed Twice Before Its Close I Never Saw a Moor Christina Rossetti Remember Up-Hill Lewis Carroll How Doth the Little Crocodile Thomas Bailey Aldrich Memory Thomas Hardy Hap "In Time of "The Breaking of Nations" I Look into My Glass Gerard Manley Hopkins Pied Beauty God's Grandeur "No Worst, There Is None" John Banister Tabb Evolution The Shadow The Mid-Day Moon Emma Lazarus The New Colossus William Ernest Henley Invictus Robert Louis Stevenson Requiem Francis William Bourdillon The Night Has a Thousand Eyes Ella Wheeler Wilcox Solitude The Winds of Fate Oscar Wilde E Tenebris Symphony in Yellow John Davidson Song A. E. Housman When I Was One-and-Twenty Into My Heart an Air That Kills With Rue My Heart Is Laden Loveliest of Trees William Butler Yeats Leda and the Swan The Lake Isle of Innisfree Down by the Salley Gardens When You Are Old Gelett Burgess The Purple Cow Cinque Ans Aprés Ernest Dowson Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae Envoy E. A. Robinson Richard Cory Eros Turannos Stephen Crane I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon In the Desert A Learned Man Came to Me Once Paul Laurence Dunbar Life We Wear the Mask Silence Amy Lowell Solitaire Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Fire and Ice The Road Not Taken Acquainted with the Night Hughes Mearns Antigonish Adelaide Crapsey November Night The Warning John Masefield Sea Fever Carl Sandburg Fog Grass Wallace Stevens The Emperor of Ice-Cream Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock William Carlos Williams The Red Wheelbarrow Sara Teasdale The Kiss I Shall Not Care Ezra Pound In a Station of the Metro "L'Art, 1910" Joyce Kilmer Trees Rupert Brooke The Soldier Claude McKay Harlem Shadows T.S. Eliot Morning at the Window The Boston Evening Transcript Archibald MacLeish The End of the World Edna St. Vincent Millay First Fig Euclid Alone Has Looked On Beauty Bare Wilfred Owen Anthem for Doomed Youth Langston Hughes The Negro Speaks of Rivers Dylan Thomas Do Not So Gentle into That Good Night

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This outstanding 150-poem anthology spans over 400 years of English and American literary history. Memorable compositions include Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Blake's "The Tyger," Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," Byron's "She Walks in Beauty," Shelley's "Ozymandias," as well as works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, and many others.

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0486411052
• ISBN 13: 9780486411057
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 54
• Redattore: Negri Paul