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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Untermeyer, Louis, 1885-1977. Treasury of great poems. New York, Simon and Schuster, 1942 (OCoLC)586757146 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Louis Untermeyer |
| OCLC Number: | 798794 |
| Description: | lviii p., 1 l, 1288 p., 1 l. 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Partial contents: The twenty-third psalm from The book of psalms -- A time for everything from Ecclesiastes -- The beatitudes from The gospel according to Saint Matthew -- from The Canterbury tales / Geoffrey Chaucer -- As I lay sleeping / Anonymous -- Good company / Henry VIII -- Sonnets from Idea / Michael Drayton -- Sonnets ; This England from King Richard the Second ; Mercy from The merchant of Venice ; Thus with a kiss I die from Romeo and Juliet / William Shakespeare -- from Tamburlaine the great / Christopher Marlowe --To Celia (drink to me only with thine eyes) / Ben Jonson -- The flea / John Donne -- from Paradise lost / John Milton -- Epitaph on his wife / John Dryden -- The rape of the lock / Alexander Pope -- Introduction to Songs of innocence / William Blake. Partial contents cont'd: The rime of the ancient mariner / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Sonnets from the Portuguese / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- Remembrance / Emily Bronte -- from Song of myself / Walt Whitman -- from The pirates of penzance / W. S. Gilbert -- from The ballad of reading gaol / Oscar Wilde -- Five American folk songs: Dixie ; My old Kentucky home ; Frankie and Johnny ; Casey Jones ; John Henry -- Four Negro spirituals: Joshua fit de battle of Jericho ; Steal away ; The crucifixion ; Water-boy -- O world / George Santayana -- Elegy in a country churchyard / G. K. Chesterton -- Love on the farm / D. H. Lawrence -- The soldier / Rupert Brooke -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- from The bridge / Hart Crane -- An elementary school classroom in a slum / Stephen Spender. |
| Responsibility: | selected and integrated by Louis Untermeyer. |
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