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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158627903321

Titolo

Poetry for students . Volume 45 : presenting analysis, context, and criticism on commonly studied poetry / / Sara Constantakis, project editor ; foreword by David J. Kelly

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Detroit, Mich. : , : Gale, , 2014

ISBN

1-4144-9279-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxi, 371 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

809.1

Soggetti

Poetry - Study and teaching

Poetry - History and criticism

Poetry, Modern - 19th century

Poetry, Modern - 20th century

Poetry, Modern - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"ISSN 1094-7019."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Against love poetry / by Eavan Boland -- Blandeur / by Kay Ryan -- Defending Walt Whitman / by Sherman Alexie -- The Esquimos have no word for ''war'' / by Mary Oliver -- Half-hanged Mary / by Margaret Atwood -- In the orchard / by Henrik Ibsen -- Let America be America again / by Langston Hughes -- Meeting at night / by Robert Browning -- Midcentury love letter / by Phyllis McGinley -- Peace / by Rupert Brooke -- Question / by May Swenson -- Sound and sense / by Alexander Pope -- A story / by Li-Young Lee -- To the ladies / by Mary Chudleigh -- What lips my lips have kissed / by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The whipping / by Robert Hayden.

Sommario/riassunto

Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.