Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel & Adventure: Poems of Travel and Adventure - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0486406466 ISBN 13: 9780486406466

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 1998

Riassunto

Most of us, at one time or another, have experienced wanderlust. For many, the desire to explore is almost irresistible. Now for devotees of poetry, and for those who long for the open road, this highly affordable collection contains a rich selection of poems about travel and adventure.
You’ll find more than 90 poems by 50 American and British masters (mainly from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries), including Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, John Masefield, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, Christina Rossetti, and other fellow travelers. Their poems celebrate the real and metaphorical journeys each of us takes in the course of our lives towards love, discovery, loss, leaving the nest, and coming home.
Whatever your mode of transportation, and wherever you are going, take this literary traveling companion with you for hours of reading enjoyment and insight into the road that lies ahead.

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Product Description:

Collection of more than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrates travel, adventure and the many real and metaphorical journeys each of us take in the course of our lives. Works by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Service, Bliss Carman, Robert Louis Stevenson, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The New Colossus" and "The Railway Train."

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0486406466
• ISBN 13: 9780486406466
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 66
• Redattore: American Poetry & Literacy Project (Mineola N. Y.)