Category: CLASSICS

100 Best-Loved Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Publisher: Dover Publications : October 1995

Seller ID: 230318

ISBN-13: 9780486285535

Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits. Among them are Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: "Sonnet XVIII" ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"); Donne: "Holy Sonnet X" ("Death, be not proud"); Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"; Wordsworth: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; Shelley: "Ode to the West Wind"; Longfellow: "T...
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1984 cliff notes

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Seller ID: 171267

ISBN: 281BZE1012653

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Bigger Boat: The Unlikely Success of the Albuquerque Poetry Slam Scene (Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series)

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Publisher: University of New Mexico Press : June 2008

Seller ID: 100344

ISBN-13: 9780826344830

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A Bigger Boat chronicles the Albuquerque Slam Poetry scene's growth and success at the 2005 National Poetry Slam competition, which it hosted and won. This collection of poems and personal memories explores Slam from the voices of the poets who began developing the Albuquerque scene in 1990 to poets who witnessed and celebrated the 2005 hometown victory.Despite Slam's big city origins and arguments that smaller urban areas could not garner enough community interest to host national events, the Albuquerque event proved skeptics wrong. The swell of excitement so exceeded expectations that Danny ...
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A Child's Anthology of Poetry

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Publisher: Scholastic Book Services : January 1998

Seller ID: 94823

ISBN-13: 9780590675376

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Child's Anthology of Poetry

Price: $1.25

Publisher: Scholastic Book Services : January 1998

Seller ID: 249860

ISBN-13: 9780590675376

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

A CHRISTMAS CAROL LEATHERETTE

Price: $8.00

Seller ID: 184678

ISBN: 281BZE1013764

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A COVENANT OF SEASONS

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Seller ID: 100439

ISBN: 281BZE1007032

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Fruit-Cake of Australian Stories

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Publisher: Green House Publications : January 1983

Seller ID: 99362

ISBN-13: 9780909104597

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A Mirror of England: An Anthology of Writings of H J Massingham (1888-1952)

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Publisher: Green Books : August 1991

Seller ID: 24595

ISBN-13: 9781870098175

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

A Treasury of New England Folklore: Stories, Ballads and Traditions of Yankee Folk

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Publisher: Crown Publishers : November 1984

Seller ID: 249017

ISBN-13: 9780517109182

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

AESOP'S FABLES

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Seller ID: 228960

ISBN: 281BZE1014989

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE POETRY

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Seller ID: 230005

ISBN: 281BZE1015010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction (Oxford World's Classics)

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Publisher: Oxford University Press : November 1998

Seller ID: 100100

ISBN-13: 9780192839015

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This anthology contains five of the most important short works of Elizabethan prose fiction: George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F.J., John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit, Robert Greene's Pandosto: The Triumph of Time, Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller, and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury. Paul Salzman has modernized the texts for easier comprehension.
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An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : August 2004

Seller ID: 99650

ISBN-13: 9780393058765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In both the book and the videos on the accompanying DVD, poems by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, and Dickinson as well as contemporary poets are introduced by people from across the United States--a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glassblower, a marine--each of whom speaks about his or her connection to the poem. Their comments are variously poignant, funny, heartening, tart, penetrating, and eccentric, showing some of the ways poetry is alive for American readers. An Invitation to Poetry will inspire a fresh experience of poetry's pleasure and insight.
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An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : August 2004

Seller ID: 165080

ISBN-13: 9780393058765

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

In both the book and the videos on the accompanying DVD, poems by Sappho, Shakespeare, Keats, Whitman, and Dickinson as well as contemporary poets are introduced by people from across the United States--a construction worker, a Supreme Court justice, a glassblower, a marine--each of whom speaks about his or her connection to the poem. Their comments are variously poignant, funny, heartening, tart, penetrating, and eccentric, showing some of the ways poetry is alive for American readers. An Invitation to Poetry will inspire a fresh experience of poetry's pleasure and insight.
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Beowulf: A New Prose Translation

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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : May 1966

Seller ID: 100502

ISBN-13: 9780393096873

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A prose translation of the poem in its entirety is presented with detailed historical, linguistic, and critical notes.
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BEST LOVED POEMS

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Seller ID: 170347

ISBN: 281BZE1012591

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Bhagavadgita (Dover Thrift Editions)

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Publisher: Dover Publications : October 1993

Seller ID: 208420

ISBN-13: 9780486277820

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Written in the form of a poetic dialogue, it probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him, providing a fascinating synopsis of the religious thought and experience of India through the ages. This edition offers the classic English verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold (1832-1904). Explanatory footnotes.

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