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Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0613959647
Author : Donald Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990-12-13
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780190281748
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 : Donald Hall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780195123739
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 : Iona Archibald Opie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : OCLC:824305229
Author : Robin Hanbury-Tenison
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192805560
Selected by Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whom the Sunday Times called the 'greatest explorer of the last twenty years', this is a comprehensive anthology of the writings of explorers through the ages, now fully revised and updated. The ultimate in travel writing, these are the words of those who changed the world through their pioneering search for new lands, new peoples, and new experiences. Divided into geographical sections, the book takes us to Asia with Vasco da Gama, Francis Younghusband, and Wilfred Thesiger, to the Americas with John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, and Alexander Von Humboldt, to Africa with Dr David Livingstone and Mary Kingsley, to the Pacific with Ferdinand Magellan and James Cook, and to the Poles with Robert Peary and Wally Herbert. Driven by a desire to discover that transcends all other considerations, the vivid writings of these extraordinary people reveal what makes them go beyond the possible and earn the right to be known as explorers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : OCLC:653494
Author : Iona Opie,Peter Opie
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192801880
This anthology brings together the outstanding verse written for children over a period of five hundred years. It contains more than 300 poems written by 123 authors, and includes the rhymed precepts of medieval times, the admonitory verse of Elizabethan Puritans, the inspirational verse of Blake and Christopher Smart, the nonsense verses of Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, the nursery verses of Robert Louis Stevenson and A. A. Milne, and the poetical imaginings of Christina Rossetti, Eleanor Farjeon, and Walter de la Mare. It has truly been called "A companion to the mature of all ages, no matter how young."
Author : Philip Larkin
Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
Page : 700 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : English poetry
ISBN : 0198121377
Anthology of about 600 poems from more than 200 twentieth century English poets.
Author : Neil Philip
Publisher : Oxford Books of Verse
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children's poetry, American
ISBN : UCSC:32106012344088
An anthology of poetry written for children.
Author : Joyce Carol Oates
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0195092627
This volume offers a survey of American short fiction in 59 tales that combine classic works with 'different, unexpected gems', which invite readers to explore a wealth of important pieces by women and minority writers. Authors include: Amy Tan, Alice Adams, David Leavitt and Tim O'Brien.
Author : Elizabeth Hauge Sword
Publisher : Ecco
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0062393375
Finally in paperback, a timeless collection celebrating the joys of poetry for children of all ages—an indispensable introduction to literature and life that brings together essential classic children's poems with the best of modern and contemporary international poetry. The simple pleasures of reading and listening to poetry can make unforgettable memories in childhood and help children develop an interest in language and storytelling. From Robert Frost to Maya Angelou, Shel Silverstein to Emily Dickinson, this collection emphasizes the fun and diversity of poetry, providing young readers with a well-rounded, inclusive selection of poets. Under the guidance of a special advisory board of esteemed poets, and featuring artwork by Tom Pohrt, the well-known illustrator of Crow and Weasel, A Child's Anthology of Poetry includes favorite poems such as William Blake's "The Tyger" and Lewis Carroll's "Jabberwocky," in addition to more recent classics such as Elizabeth Bishop's "Sestina" and Theodore Roethke's "My Papa's Waltz." Full of surprises and lyric charm, this delightful volume will be treasured by generations of readers.
Author : David Lehman,John Brehm
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780195162516
Redefines the great canon of American poetry from its origins in the 17th century right up to the present.
Author : Iona Archibald Opie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Children's poetry
ISBN : OCLC:257153634
Author : John Simpson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0192142216
From the moment Adam and Eve were expelled from Paradise, exile has been a part of the human experience. The circumstances in which individuals or entire peoples are compelled to leave their homeland are as various as they are numerous, and in this book John Simpson has brought together examples of exile from all over the world, and from all periods of history. The emphasis is on personal experience, with writers from Ovid to Solzhenitsyn describing their exile, their emotions, their struggle and their despair. For those who have chosen a life in exile, the response is more mixed: ambivalence about the country they have left and the country they have chosen suffuses the writing of intellectuals seeking freedom of speech, as of ex-pats living in India or Australia. Those persecuted for their faith or their politics rub shoulders with those fleeing from war, or from debt, or even from the weather. Castaways and spies, premiers and princes describe their departure, their reception and sometimes their return, in an anthology that is by turns inspiring, moving, and deeply thought-provoking. With sources ranging from police records, newspaper articles, interviews, letters and memoirs, as well as verse and fiction, and settings as remote as Iran and Russia, China and Palestine, The Oxford Book of Exile provides a fascinating insight into an experience that touches so many, and captures the imagination of us all.
Author : Michael Harrison,Christopher Stuart-Clark
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0192782436
The winter landscape at Christmas, the story of the Nativity, the celebrations of the season, and the coming of the New Year-these are explored through more than 120 poems, both old and new. Included in this wonderful illustrated collection are poems by Ted Hughes, John Betjeman, W.H. Auden, Thomas Hardy, Michael Rosen, and many more.