The Oxford Book Of Childrens Verse In America
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Author |
: Donald Hall |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 98 |
Release |
: 1999 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195123739 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195123735 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children's Poems by : Donald Hall
An anthology of American poems, is arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems. 50 illustrations, 20 in color.
Author |
: Neil Philip |
Publisher |
: Oxford Books of Verse |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSC:32106012344088 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse by : Neil Philip
An anthology of poetry written for children.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:653494 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Children's Verse by :
Author |
: Francis Otto Matthiessen |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 1132 |
Release |
: 1978 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:552056752 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of American Verse by : Francis Otto Matthiessen
Author |
: Philip Larkin |
Publisher |
: Oxford Books of Verse |
Total Pages |
: 700 |
Release |
: 1973 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198121377 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198121374 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Twentieth-century English Verse by : Philip Larkin
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Author |
: Donald Hall |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 358 |
Release |
: 1990-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190281748 |
ISBN-13 |
: 019028174X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Children's Verse in America by : Donald Hall
Compiled by the award-winning poet and author of children's books, Donald Hall, this delightful anthology follows in the tradition of Iona and Peter Opie's classic Oxford Book of Children's Verse. Hall brings together poems written specifically for children and also those written for anyone and enjoyed by children and adults alike. He presents over two hundred fifty poems written by over one hundred different American poets--including anonymous works, ballads, and recitation pieces--that range from the Calvinist verses of the seventeenth century to the fabulous nonsense poems of the present. Drawing on literally thousands of sources--including Sunday School magazines, Christmas annuals for children, and such wonderful children's periodicals as St. Nicholas and Youth's Companion--Hall gives the modern reader a rich sampling of many poems never before anthologized. He includes everyone's favorites, from Clement Clarke Moore's "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (a.k.a. "The Night Before Christmas") to the classic lines of Longfellow and Whittier. Along with Sarah Josepha Hale's famous poem, "Mary's Lamb," we find poetry by Emily Dickinson, Mary Mapes Dodge, Palmer Cox, Sarah Orne Jewett, Laura E. Richards, and Gelett Burgess. He also covers the twentieth-century with verse by T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Ogden Nash, Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel), and Randall Jarrell, just to name a few. Hall concludes with the poetry of present-day writers such as Shel Silverstein and Nancy Willard. A testament to a captivating tradition in American literature, this anthology will encourage many hours of nostalgic browsing and reading aloud to children.
Author |
: John Gross |
Publisher |
: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199561613 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199561612 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Comic Verse by : John Gross
From limericks to social satire, The Oxford Book of Comic Verse offers a remarkable collection of outstanding light poetry. John Gross has brought together the finest writers in the history of the English language - from Chaucer and Skelton to Shakespeare and Swift, Lord Byron to Robert Browning, Emily Dickinson to John Updike, as well as witty song lyrics from such artists as Irving Berlin and Cole Porter - offering delightful examples of their comic verse. Drawing on many different types of verse, including epigrams, street ballads, advertising jingles, clerihew, music-hall lyrics, and the doubledactyl of the calypso, this highly entertaining collection offers an exceptionally wide range of comic pleasures. The poems are by turns subtle, down-to-earth, macabre, ingenious, acerbic, ribald, and cheerful. Written to amuse, they call forth laughter and delight in equal measure. Compiled by one of our finest critics and anthologists, this reissue boasts a stylish new design and a fresh contemporary feel.
Author |
: Roger Lonsdale |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 1800 |
Release |
: 2009-03-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191501425 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191501425 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth-Century Verse by : Roger Lonsdale
No previous anthology has succeeded in illustrating so thoroughly the kinds of verse actually written in the eighteenth century. The familiar tradition is fully represented by selections from such poets as Pope, Swift, Tomson, Gray, Smart, Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, and Blake. In addition, the anthology includes verse by many forgotten writers, both men and women, from all levels of society. Although they have never figured in conventional literary history, they wrote humorous, idiosyncratic, and graphic verse about their personal experience and the world around them, in a way that should challenge received ideas about the period's restraints and inhibitions.
Author |
: John Gross |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 680 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199556557 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199556555 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Essays by : John Gross
The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.
Author |
: Iona Opie |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0192801961 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780192801968 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Oxford Book of Narrative Verse by : Iona Opie
This is a story-book, universal in its appeal and representative of a literary tradition from Chaucer to Auden. Its tales are of various kinds - romantic, humorous, ghostly, and gory, written over the past six hundred years.Here will be found Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and Coleridge's 'Ancient Mariner'; the tale of John Gilpin and of the Idiot Boy; 'The Lady of Shalott', 'The Pied Piper', and Lewis Carroll's 'The Hunting of the Snark'. In the twentieth century the narrative tradition is exemplified by Chesterton andMasefield, Charles Causley and C. Day-Lewis, amongst others.Most of the fifty-nine poems in this collection are given in their entirety, but abridgements and extracts from book-length narratives such as 'The Faerie Queene' and 'Paradise Lost' add to the richness and variety.