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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John Lithgow |
| ISBN: | 9780446580021 0446580023 |
| OCLC Number: | 183926046 |
| Description: | xix, 280 p. ; 21 cm. + 1 sound disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Contents: | Dover beach / Matthew Arnold -- Musée des Beaux Arts / W.H. Auden -- Dream song 76: Henry's confession / John Berryman -- Filling station / Elizabeth Bishop -- The tyger / William Blake -- We real cool / Gwendolyn Brooks -- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet 43) / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- To a mouse / Robert Burns -- I would I were a careless child / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- from The general prologue / Geoffrey Chaucer -- Kubla Khan / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- To Brooklyn Bridge / Hart Crane -- if everything happens that can't be done / E.E. Cummings -- There is no frigate like a book (1263) / Emily Dickinson -- Song (Go and catch a falling star) / John Donne -- Rhapsody on a windy night / T.S. Eliot -- Birches / Robert Frost -- Love unrequited, or the nightmare song / William S. Gilbert -- A supermarket in California / Allen Ginsberg -- The beggar to Mab, the Fairy Queen / Robert Herrick -- Pied beauty / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- When I was one-and-twenty / A.E. Housman -- The weary blues / Langston Hughes -- The death of the ball turret gunner / Randall Jarrell -- Inviting a friend to supper / Ben Jonson -- To autumn / John Keats -- Days / Philip Larkin -- The owl and the pussy-cat / Edward Lear -- A psalm of life / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The public garden / Robert Lowell -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- Love is not all / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Poetry / Marianne Moore -- No doctors today, thank you / Ogden Nash -- Afternoon / Dorothy Parker -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- The river-merchant's wife: a letter / Ezra Pound -- Up-hill / Christina Rossetti -- Chicago / Carl Sandburg -- Fear no more the heat o' the sun / William Shakespeare -- To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Sonnet LXXV (One day I wrote her name upon the strand) / Edmund Spenser -- If I told him: a completed portrait of Picasso / Gertrude Stein -- The emperor of ice-cream / Wallace Stevens -- Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas -- There was a child went forth / Walt Whitman -- The red wheelbarrow / William Carlos Williams -- I wandered lonely as a cloud / William Wordsworth -- The lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats. |
| Responsibility: | [selected by] John Lithgow. |
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Abstract:
John Lithgow has hand-picked some of the best poems ever written in this quintissential collection for the whole family to treasure.
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