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101 Great American Poems
ISBN: 9780486401584
From Anne Bradstreet to W.H. Auden, this volume collects a sampling of the most important poetry from U.S. history. Including well-known and lesser-known poems, this treasury will delight and educate the student in the nation's rich poetic heritage.
Overview
Focusing on popular verse from the 19th and 20th centuries, this treasury of great American poems invites poetry lovers to savor a taste of the nation's rich poetic legacy. Selected for both popularity and literary quality, 101 time-honored poems in this entertaining volume include:
- Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven
- Walt Whitman: I Hear America Singing
- Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sr: Old Ironsides
- William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis
- Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
- Langston Hughes: Still Here
- Edwin Arlington Robinson: Miniver Cheevy
- Emily Dickinson: I'm nobody! Who are you?
. . . as well as works by Herman Melville, Vachel Lindsay, Emma Lazarus, Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Stephen Crane, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and other notables.
Chosen by the American Poetry & Literacy Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting poetly and literacy, these much-loved and highly readable poems promise students and general readers alike hours of reading pleasure.
Original Dover (1998) selection of poems from standard editions.
Language Arts
Explore the New World with Leif Ericsson, Christopher Columbus, and others. Discover the amazing story of the U.S. from colonial times to the California gold rush in this year-long curriculum for 4th-8th grade.
Learn about the courage and faith of many who came to America. Help children understand man's struggles in world exploration as your family memorizes the book of James.
