Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.
Seer, critic, lover, madwoman--the poet's sensibility gives us a chance to experience them all. This rich, wide-ranging collection of work by scores of America's contemporary poets brings you both wisdom and entertainment in short verse. In it are represented, with one poem each, the chancellors, fellows, and award winners of the Academy of American Poets since 1934. The result is a unique sampler of the various literary styles and themes that have left their marks on the past five decades. Fifty Years of American Poetry gives readers the opportunity to hear familiar voices and new ones--and encounter the great American poems that have captured both our minds and our hearts. The Academy of American Poets has as its stated purpose ''To encourage, stimulate, and foster the production of American poetry..." This was never limited to poets of any particular school, method, or category of poetry so this anthology is as representative a cross-section of American poetry in the last 50 years as any of its kind. The Academy is not a stodgy eastem provincial institution. It encourages young poets, recognizes the importance of change and growth in the poetry of America, and believes that poetry is not for poets only. This anthology was compiled on this basis. Fifty Years Of American Poetry is not only educational, but also inspirational, hopefully imbuing everyone who reads it with a sense of the dynamic and development of American poetry in the last half century. The Academy of American Poets is the only institution which could compile such a unique anthology because it is the oniy group which has consistently played a large part in the American poetry scene through its patronage to poets and its mission to make poetry an accessible and vital part of the American literary landscape. -->
Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
Presents a collection of over one hundred American poems spanning more than three hundred fifty years and includes works by Colonial poet Anne Bradstreet, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and T.S. Eliot.
More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others.
This book includes classic poems by such eminent poets as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Sara Teasdale, William Butler Yeats, Louisa May Alcott, Walt Whitman, Herman Melville, Gertrude Stein and others. Contents: Anne Bradstreet To My Dear and Loving Husband Phillis Wheatley To the Right Honourable WILLIAM, Earl of DARTMOUTH, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for North-America, & c. William Cullen Bryant The Planting of the Apple-Tree Thanatopsis Ralph Waldo Emerson Concord Hymn The Snow-storm Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song The Builders The Children’s Hour The Day Is Done The Landlord’s Tale. Paul Revere’s Ride Edgar Allan Poe Alone Annabel Lee The Conqueror Worm The Raven To Helen Abraham Lincoln My Childhood’s Home I See Again Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr Old Ironsides Herman Melville Misgivings Walt Whitman I Hear America Singing I Sit and Look Out Miracles A Noiseless Patient Spider О Captain! My Captain! From Song of My self When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer Frances E. W. Harper Bury Me in a Free Land Songs for the People Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death Death sets a thing significant Hope is the thing with feathers I died for beauty If I can stop one heart from breaking I’m nobody! Who are you? Mv life closed twice before its close Success is couated sweetest There is no frigate like a book This is my letter to the world Ella Wheeler Wilcox Solitude Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat Edwin Arlington Robinson Miniver Cheevy Mr. Flood’s Party Richard Cory Stephen Crane I saw a man pursuing the horizon’ War Is Kind James Weldon Johnson Sence You Went Away Paul Laurence Dunbar The Lesson Sympathy We Wear the Mask Gertrude Stein Susie Asado Vachel Lindsay Abraham Lincoln. Walks at Midnight Euclid The Leaden-Eyed Claude McKay After the Winter If We Must Die The Tropics in New York Countee Cullen For Paul Laurence Dunbar Incident Amy Lowell Venetian Glass Song The Swans Prime James Oppenheim Hebrews Elizabeth Barrett Browning Juliet Of Nations A Musical Instrument Emma Lazarus The Crowing Of The Red Cock Youth And Death Age And Death Louisa May Alcott Fairy Song My Kingdom Transfiguration Lullaby Ellis Parker Butler Good — Better — Best The Whale A Lost Angel The Ballade Of The Automobile Hugh Henry Brackenridge From A poem on divine revelation Matthew Arnold To A Friend Shakespeare The Last Word William Butler Yeats Brown Penny The Chambermaid’s First Song A Song From ‘The Player Queen’ September 1913 Leda And The Swan A Prayer For Old Age William Blake A Poison Tree The Garden Of Love The Fly Laughing song Sara Teasdale Wisdom Peace A Cry After Love Alone I Am Not Yours On A March Day The Mystery William Barnes The Broken Heart The Young that Died in Beauty The Woodlands
The poet's heart will speak to yours in this collection of approachable poetry, which spans 150 years of the diverse American experience. This portable volume includes five sections: Nature, The Year, Life, America, and Author Biographies. Features famous poems and lesser-known literary gems that deserve to be read aloud. Perfect for poetry lovers and novices alike, this title is an excellent addition to your family or homeschool library. American Poetry to Read Aloud features over 100 poems from 45 poets, complete with author biographies. ★ Poets include William Stanley Braithwaite, Joseph S. Cotter, Jr., Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Jessie Fauset, Israel Folsom, Mary Weston Fordham, Robert Frost, William Lloyd Garrison, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Hen-toh, George Moses Horton, Langston Hughes, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Joyce Kilmer, Emma Lazarus, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Claude McKay, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Posey, Carl Sandburg, Joshua McCarter Simpson, Sara Teasdale, Phillis Wheatley, Albery Allson Whitman, Walt Whitman, and more.★