Half Hours with the Best Poets
Half Hours with the Best Poets
- Author: FRANK J. FINAMORE
- Length: 320
- Edition: Hardcover
- Publisher: Gramercy
About Half Hours with the Best Poets:
Two hundred and twenty-five of the greatest and most popular works by English-language poets from Shakespeare to Sandburg appear in this valuable reference book, arranged chronologically.
Description of Half Hours with the Best Poets:
Two hundred and twenty-five of the greatest and most popular works by English-language poets from Shakespeare to Sandburg appear in this valuable reference book, arranged chronologically.
Information on Half Hours with the Best Poets from the publisher:
Half Hours with the Best Poets collects more than 220 essential poems by the greatest writers of the English language from the last five hundred years. Included are such important sixteenth- and seventeenth-century poems as Shakespeare's "Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds," John Donne's "Death, Be Not Proud," and Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress." Among the eighteenth-century selections are Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" and Robert Burn's "To a Mouse." From the early-nineteenth-century English Romantic movement are such celebrated poems as William Blake's "The Tyger," William Wordsworth's "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Also represented are important works by the poets of the Victorian era, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Robert Browning. Half Hours includes the renowned poets of the American continent, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost.
Description of Frank J. Finamore, author of Half Hours with the Best Poets:
More than 220 of the greatest poems in the English language from five centuries, including works by: William Shakespeare, John Milton, William Blake, Robert Burns, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Walt Whitman, Emilt Dickinson, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson, William Butler Yeats, Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot.